Systematic Review Accelerator (SRA)
Literature review and synthesis is central to research and evidence-informed decision making. Automation can make the process faster, while maintaining and enhancing quality. The SRA is a suite of automation tools built to make conducting all types of evidence reviews or synthesis easier and faster. As each tool is designed to help with a specific review task, people can use as many or as few as they like.
Existing tools are being continuously reviewed and refined, and additional tools are being developed. The SRA tools are freely available for anyone in the world to use.
The following presentation has an Introduction and short demo presented by Sarah Bateup, Faculty Librarian, Bond University.
Tools
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Methods Wizard
A semi-automated tool to guide the systematic review team through the writeup of the methods section of a systematic review protocol.
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Word Frequency Analyser
Assists with designing the search strings to find the relevant literature to answer the systematic review question.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/wordfreq
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Search Refinery
Refines the search strategy so that it is maximally efficient in finding only the relevant literature and leaving out irrelevant literature (decreases the screening workload).
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/searchRefinery
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Polyglot Search Translator
Automatically (rather than manually) translates the search string between multiple databases (which have their own syntaxes).
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/polyglot
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Deduplicator
Identifies and removes duplicate studies from search results (to decrease the reference screening workload).
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/deduplicator
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Screenatron
Increases the speed of title/abstract screening by combining customizable hotkeys with a streamlined user interface to allow the reviewer to quickly include or exclude articles.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/screenatron
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Disputatron
Detects screening decision disagreements between reviewers. This speeds up the resolution of the disagreement process.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/disputatron
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Spidercite
Automatically finds and downloads any citing and cited articles from an uploaded set of studies, used for conducting citation searching.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/spidercite
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Revman Replicant
(Login required) - Automatically writes the results of the systematic review from meta-analyses (forest plots), thus decreasing errors and time to complete the write-up.
A semi-automated tool to guide the systematic review team through the writeup of the methods section of a systematic review protocol.
Assists with designing the search strings to find the relevant literature to answer the systematic review question.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/wordfreq
Refines the search strategy so that it is maximally efficient in finding only the relevant literature and leaving out irrelevant literature (decreases the screening workload).
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/searchRefinery
Automatically (rather than manually) translates the search string between multiple databases (which have their own syntaxes).
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/polyglot
Identifies and removes duplicate studies from search results (to decrease the reference screening workload).
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/deduplicator
Increases the speed of title/abstract screening by combining customizable hotkeys with a streamlined user interface to allow the reviewer to quickly include or exclude articles.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/screenatron
Detects screening decision disagreements between reviewers. This speeds up the resolution of the disagreement process.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/disputatron
Automatically finds and downloads any citing and cited articles from an uploaded set of studies, used for conducting citation searching.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/spidercite
(Login required) - Automatically writes the results of the systematic review from meta-analyses (forest plots), thus decreasing errors and time to complete the write-up.
Importer/exporter
A lot of the tools in the SRA need you to upload references to them. This is done by exporting references from Reference Management Software (e.g. EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley) as an XML file, then uploading this XML file to the SRA.
Help guide: https://sr-accelerator.com/#/help/libraries
90-min online training sessions
Throughout the year we present various workshops on the use of automation tools to assist with systematic reviews.
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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
2 week systematic reviews (2weekSR)
A 2weekSR is a full systematic review (SR) done to a high methodological standard following all the normal systematic review processes, completed in a vastly shortened time frame. The award-winning 2weekSRs combine the following elements: a team with complementary SR skills, previous SR experience, systematic review automation (SRA) tools, and agile development processes. These factors allow for the completion of an accelerated SR in extremely shortened time frames – generally in 2 weeks.