SysRevving: A Guide to Open Systematic Reviews
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The SysRevving book is an open access book about doing open and systematic systematic
reviews using open source tools. That is not a typo: it really says systematic systematic
reviews, reflecting how this book aims to make systematic reviews as systematic as possible.
This is tied in with the aim of making them as open, transparent, and machine-readable as
possible.
The scientific literature is rapidly expanding, and keeping up-to-date by reading new journal
issues as they come out has been impossible for many years already. As a consequence, two
practices are becoming increasingly common: PhD. candidates starting their project with
a systematic review to get a hopefully unbiased overview of the literature in a field, and
conducting living systematic reviews that can be updated with relatively little effort to provide
an up-to-date database to answer specific questions.
At the same time, the workflow adopted in many systematic reviews is often partly designed
anew for each systematic review. Decisions, procedures, and documentation are often only
human-readable and scattered over multiple files, sometimes even in proprietary file formats
or formats used by free but not free/libre open source software (FLOSS). This book aims to sup-
port a systematic workflow geared towards optimizing transparency and machine-readability.
The idea is that optimizing transparency and machine-readability means that systematic re-
views can ultimately become more scalable, interoperable, and extensible. This in turn means
that there is less wasted effort and eventually, systematic reviews can be accelerated (‘revved
up’, so to speak).
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