Systematic review | Key purpose of website search | Types of websites, online resources and depositories |
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Access to economic assets for women in low- and lower-middle-income countries [7] | Discover relevant research missed or not indexed in international or regional databases | Over 35 sites consisting of government and research-active non-governmental organisations, academic research centres and funders, relating to economics, microfinance, international development, or regional development banks |
Adult cooking skills programmes [31] | Discover unpublished evaluations of cooking skills programmes in the UK | Generic search engine, library catalogues, and 25 websites of UK public health and community organisations, research centres and government departments |
Depression, anxiety, pain and quality of life in people living with chronic hepatitis C [32] | Discover research identified by advocacy organisations and health research potentially missed by database searches | Websites of hepatitis C advocacy groups in mainly in the UK and some resources to containing healthcare research in general |
Realist synthesis of school accountability in low- and middle-income countries [33] | Undertake purposive searching for advisory group engagement and scoping exercise stages prior to bibliographic database searching | Specialist databases, search engine, 20 websites of international development agencies and organisations |
Exercise interventions and patient beliefs for people with chronic hip and knee pain [34] | Discover literature on people’s experiences, largely unpublished in journals | Range of website resources covering: arthritis groups in UK, Australasia, and North America, ageing care registries, patient experience resource, grey literature resources, generic search engine, social science research |