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Further praise for the now pink-cheeked Andrew - a truly outstanding resource!. 
I have, by the way, already signed him up for 'Realismo 2', where he will add rap to his mastery of blues and cheesy pop. 
If there is one trick to literature searching in realist synthesis, it is the idea that it is iterative OR to put it more clearly - it never ends! I went to a couple of presentations at Liverpool in which the researchers had heroically tried to search for material all in one go - before moving onto appraisal and so on. If you try a little tentative analysis of one batch of material, you'll find that it throws up several different explanatory pathways. Glean some new concepts from them and search again. The cycle continues to the point of theoretical saturation (AKA exhaustion). There will be a mix of good leads and false trails, which you simplify and tidy up in reports and publications.
RAY
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From: Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Booth [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: New Literature Searching Resource for Realist Syntheses http://realistsearch.pbworks.com/

Following numerous requests and Gill's kind but unwarranted approbation I have quickly assembled a resource to support Literature Searching for Realist Reviews:
http://realistsearch.pbworks.com/

It includes my own CARES presentation and all the other essential searching methods items in my personal "Desert Island" Collection. I am hoping that Chris Cooper will also make his CARES presentation available to us.

So if you have emailed me for search guidance over the last few days (thanks Gill :-) )please look at this resource first. Of course I will then be happy to answer specific questions arising from the resource materials (and of course any resource I subsequently find useful in answering your follow up questions).

As in true realist fashion I have privileged relevance and timeliness over rigour I will be very interested in learning of anything you find useful that is not yet included on my resource :-)

I hope you will find it useful!

Best wishes

Andrew
The House for Realist “Fun”
(With Apologies to the House of The Rising Sun)
There is a house in Liv-er-pool
It’s known to Ray Paw-son
And it's been the ruin of so much E-B-M
And don’t I know I'm one!
My mother was “relative”
(Don’t know what that term means!)
My father was positivist
Written in his genes
Now the only thing a realist needs
Is a mid-range theory
And the only time he's satisfied
He comes across quite dreary
Oh, tutors, tell your students
Not to do what I have done
The only Outcome there is misery
Whatever the Mech-a-nis-m
Well, I got one eye on the Programme
The source of all my pains
I'm goin' back to Liv-er-pool
To break my C-MO chains
Well, there is a house in Liv-er-pool
It’s known to Ray Paw-son
And it's been the ruin of so much E-B-M
And now I know I'm done!



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Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice

Health Economics and Decision Science



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University of Sheffield

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Dr Andrew Booth BA Dip Lib MSc PhD MCLIP
Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice
Health Economics and Decision Science

School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0705
Fax:+44 (0) 114 272 4095
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/staff/booth
http://scharrheds.blogspot.com/

Lead Author of Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review, Sage Publishers, 2011.

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