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The EBPP Bibliography is a searchable database of selected references
on:
- Systematic review, narrative review, research synthesis and
meta-analysis in the social policy field
- The use of research evidence by practitioners
- The use of research evidence by policy makers
- Key UK policy documents on the evidence-based approach
It will be regularly updated with new material, and suggestions
for additions are welcome; please e-mail Lesley
Grayson.
For the kind of information needed to create an entry, click
here for guidance on the citation standards that the
ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice is following.
Getting what you want
The EBPP Bibliography can be scanned page by page, or searched
by title, author or keyword. It is worth spending a few minutes
looking at the online Help to check out its particular search
conventions.
Finding references is one thing, tracking down the original
documents can be another. In the EBPP Bibliography Web addresses,
accurate at the time of writing, are given for reports that are
available online and some of the material will be held by your
own university, special or even public library.
Where this is not the case, the British Library acts as a library
of last resort. All the journal articles and virtually all the
books and reports in the EBPP Bibliography are available in the
Library's London-based reference collections and/or its loan collections
at the Document Supply Centre in Yorkshire. Shelf codes for books
and reports are given to make the process of getting what you
want as simple as possible.
Where to find more
The EBPP literature is potentially huge and this bibliography
is only a start. It focuses on key books and 'classic works',
which have extensive bibliographies of their own, and reports
and journal literature published mainly in the last two years.
Except for a few key references, some areas of application are
deliberately excluded, particularly medicine, health care and
health promotion. Here the evidence-based approach has a longer
history and its literature, which can have a lot to offer those
in the social policy field, is accessible through a variety of
routes. Key sources include:
Click on these links or go to our database
pages for more details about these sources as well as bibliographic
databases to search for evidence-based information.
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