Subject Guides: Reviewing the literature: Register your protocol

Register your protocol

Many authors choose to register their protocol. It is more common to do this with systematic reviews and meta-analysis, although scoping reviews can be registered as well. This helps make sure that another team will not conduct the exact review that you are doing. Depending on your discipline, there are a number of places you can register.

Campbell Systematic Reviews
Cochrane: Proposing and registering new reviews
Collaboration for Environmental Evidence
Federation.figshare Figshare is a collaborative digital repository for Federation researchers, professional staff and Higher Degree by Research students to store, share and publish their digital files
JBI Systematic Review Register
Prospero Registers systematic, rapid, and umbrella reviews (no scoping reviews).

Database

JBI (Ovid) This link opens in a new window Resources for evidence-based research including Best Practice information sheets, systematic reviews and electronic journals and conference papers. (Formerly known as Joanna Briggs Institute.) This version, via the Ovid interface, should be faster for most users.