Campbell collaboration

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The Campbell Collaboration (C2) is a non-profit organization that applies a rigorous, systematic process to review the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas, in order to provide evidence-based information in the shape of systematic reviews.

The organization was founded in 1999, and held its first Colloquium in Philadelphia in February 2000. The idea was to develop an international network of social scientists in order to "produce, maintain and disseminate systematic reviews of research evidence on the effectiveness of social interventions". Its first Colloquium was held in Philadelphia in February 2000. ^[1]

C2 has coordinating groups in education, crime and justice, and social welfare, and also has a methods group. The Nordic Campbell Centre was established in 2001, supported by the Danish Government and the Nordic Council of Ministers. The Campbell Collaboration is also supported by the Norwegian government and the American Institutes for Research (AIR).

Campbell systematic reviews are published electronically in the C2 Register of Interventions and Policy Evaluations (C2-RIPE).

The Cochrane Collaboration, which systematically reviews the effects of interventions in health care, is the Campbell Collaboration's sibling organization.

1 Goals
2 Location of studies
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Goals

Campbell Collaboration reviews are "designed to meet the needs of those with an interest in high quality evidence of "what works"". The principles of the Campbell Collaboration are as follows:

Collaboration

Building on enthusiasm

Avoiding duplication

Minimizing bias

Keeping up to date

Striving for relevance

Promoting access

Ensuring quality

Continuity

[edit] Location of studies

Campbell reviewers locate studies for inclusion in a Campbell review by several means^[2]

By searching electronic databases such as Sociological Abstracts, MEDLINE and ERIC.

By maintaining and searching a database of controlled trials: C2-SPECTR

By "handsearching", e.g., by looking through page-by-page entire contents of scientific journals (though this is now usually done electronically, and not "by hand").

By checking the reference lists of the obtained articles.

Included studies are not necessarily only published studies or studies indexed by a specific database: limiting the inclusion in this way would make the review subject to publication bias.