Abbasi, K. and Smith, R. (1999). Education group guidelines on evaluation. Guidelines for evaluating papers on educational interventions. BMJ, 318:1265-67.

Booth A. and Brice A. (2004) Appraising the evidence. In Booth A. and Brice A. (eds). Evidence based practice for information professionals: a handbook, London: Facet Publishing: 104-118.

Critical appraisal skills programme (CASP) critical appraisal tools based on study type
http://www.phru.nhs.uk/Pages/PHD/resources.htm

Clyde AL (2005) The basis for evidence based practice: evaluating the research evidence. Paper presented at te 7th IFLA Conference: Libraries a voyage of discovery, 14-18 August 2005. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/050e-Clyde.pdf

CRiSTAL checklist on Appraising a User Study
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/eblib/use.htm

Note: Critical Skills Training in Appraisal for Librarians (CriSTAL)tools were developed by Andrew Booth of ScHARR*, University of Sheffield, UK (and he is not coincidentally one of the leading pioneers in EBLIP, of course!) More information (but not much) is here: http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/eblib/

*ScHARR: School of Health and Related Research

CRiSTAL checklist on Appraising an Information Needs Analysis 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/eblib/needs.htm

Crombie IK (1996). The pocket guide to critical appraisal. London: BMJ Publishing Group.

Greenhalgh, T. (1997). How to read a paper: the basics of evidence based medicine. London: BMJ Publishing Group.
Note: The components of this text are available as a published text and online:http://www.health.library.mcgill.ca/ebm/greenhalgh.htm
Greenhalgh is extensively cited for her work in this area.

Guidelines for evidence summaries.doc (32.5 Kb) 
This Word document is provided to members of the Evidence Summary Team for the journal, Evidence-based Library and Information Practice. It gives guidelines you will be following for the Evidence Summary assignment. Examples of other Evidence Summaries are found on the journal's website, http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP

HCPRDU Templates: Health Care Practice R&D Unit Critical appraisal templates for quantitative, qualitative and mixed method studies. Also outcome measures and economic evaluations.
http://www.fhsc.salford.ac.uk/hcprdu/tools.htm

Worksheet for Critical Appraisal of Qualitative Research (McMaster University) hsl.mcmaster.ca/documents/education/nursing/qualitative.doc

Morrison, JM, Sullivan F, Murray E, Jolly B. (1999). Evidence-based education: development of an instrument to critically appraise reports of educational interventions. Medical Education, 33, 890-93.

User guides to the medical literature (originally published in JAMA)
http://www.cche.net/usersguides/main.asp