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The University of Massachusetts Amherst

PUBHLTH 494CI Public Health Sciences Capstone

Resources for the Capstone project

Tools

Rayyan

UMass Amherst now has an Enterprise Membership to Rayyan! 

This gives us access to premium features, including

  • PICO highlights & filters
  • PRISMA flow diagram generator
  • Mobile App (unlimited use)
  • Auto-resolver
  • Training for students & for experts
  • Highest tier of support

New users need to sign up for an account using their umass.edu email and then will automatically get an Enterprise account with all the associated benefits.

Users will then use the "Sign in with Enterprise ID" option on the Sign In page to get to their account.

 

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS WITH SCREENSHOTS TO COME!

Existing account holders that signed up with their umass.edu email address will automatically be upgraded in early September.

If you want to do it before then (or if you signed up using a non-UMass email account):

  1. Make sure that you are using your umass.edu email address for your personal account. (Click the icon next to Settings at the top right then on your title & name to get to account details, where you should be able to update your email.)
  2. Sign out of your Rayyan account.
  3. On the Sign In screen, instead of entering your Email and Password, go down to the “Sign in with Enterprise ID” button.
  4. Enter your UMass email.
  5. That should be it! You should see your existing reviews and see Enterprise next to rayyan on the title bar across the top and the icon on the far right next to Settings should be purple and when you click it, show Enterprise under your name.

Here's a PDF of the slide deck from our Getting Started with Rayyan workshop. We plan to record the November workshop and will embed that recording here, too.

Evaluating Studies

Exporting Large Results Sets to Citation Managers

Here is my handout with instructions on how to export large results sets to be able to import into Citation Managers and remove duplicate items. I also made a video showing how to export results from PubMed, EBSCOhost databases, Web of Science, and ProQuest database.

NOTE: This procedure is also the one to follow to get files with results to upload to Rayyan for screening articles.

Exporting Large Results Sets to Excel

Here is my handout with instructions on how to export large results sets to be able to import into Excel and remove duplicate items. I also made a video showing how to export results from PubMed, EBSCOhost databases, Web of Science, and ProQuest database.

(NOTE: I am still working on editing the CC transcript for this video!)

Ellen's Tips for Doing Comprehensive Literature Searches

In this video, I share tips on methodology, performing searches (including a sample search), documenting searches, and mention a few tools that might be helpful. The document underneath covers the same content in written form.