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    Study Management

    Study management glossary

    Section titled “Study management glossary”

    The terms used on the Library, Searches and Processing pages.

    • Library: every study currently in the project, wherever it came from. Its total is the number of studies in the project.
    • Search: one set of records you imported from a search strategy or database. Each is a systematic search; the app calls it a search. A project can have many.
    • Import a search: the action that brings a search’s records into the project. It starts from the Searches page, whether or not the import wizard is switched on.
    • Records and studies: records are the rows in the file you import, counted per search on the Searches page. Studies are what SyRF holds after the import. The two numbers can differ, for example when rows cannot be read.
    • Import notes: anything SyRF tells you about a file while importing it, shown against the search.
    • Uploaded: a PDF file has reached SyRF. It does not yet mean the PDF belongs to a study.
    • Attached: a PDF is linked to its study, including one that was already stored.
    • Verified available: SyRF fetched the stored file the way a reviewer’s viewer will. Otherwise a PDF is Unavailable or Not checked.
    • Not matched: files left on your computer because no study matched them.
    • Already stored: files SyRF already held, so they were not sent again.
    • Studies without a PDF: studies that have no PDF attached.
    • PDF states: where per-study PDF status is switched on, a study’s PDF is shown as No PDF, Not yet confirmed, Checking, Available, Unavailable, Couldn’t check or Hosted elsewhere. SyRF checks a study’s PDF when the study is opened for review, and the review page updates when the check finishes.
      • Without a confirmed PDF: every study whose PDF isn’t Available, including studies with no PDF. The Studies workspace’s PDF filter offers it, and for search managers the Searches pane and the Searches page count it for each search, and Overview counts it for the project.
    • Activity: the read-only history of imports, bulk study updates and bulk PDF uploads, with where each got to and what went wrong. Where it is switched on it appears as Processing in the project menu.