Strengthen your research with expert guidance, tools, and strategies for conducting comprehensive, systematic, and scoping reviews.
Learn more about evidence synthesis and systematic review
Evidence synthesis and systematic reviews bring together findings from multiple studies to provide a comprehensive understanding of a research topic. These reviews help identify trends, gaps, and the strength of evidence, guiding informed decisions in research, policy, and practice.
Whether you’re planning a systematic review, scoping review, or another type of evidence synthesis, our librarians are here to help you design your approach, find relevant studies, and organize your findings.
Ready to start your evidence synthesis project?
- Explore the Libraries' Types of Reviews guide to compare methods and determine which type of review is the best fit for your research question and goals.
- Explore our Evidence Synthesis Methods guide to help you plan, conduct, and report your review effectively.
- Consult evidence synthesis and systematic review experts about how to start a review, decide which method is best for your goals, formulate a research question, develop search strategies, manage the process, and more.
- Attend a workshop (typically scheduled during fall and spring semesters) focused on systemic reviews and evidence synthesis methods and best practices.
Still not sure where to start?
Talk to WVU Libraries Research Support and Engagement Librarian Jenn Monnin.