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Table 2 Sources of specialized search to retrieve the full-text reports or manuscripts when not found in ReliefWeb

From: Mention of ethical review and informed consent in the reports of research undertaken during the armed conflict in Darfur (2004–2012): a systematic review

a. United Nations Sudan Information Gateway (UNSIG): http://www.unsudanig.org has weekly ‘Humanitarian Action in Darfur’ reports since 2006,

b. WHO’s IRIS (World Health Organization Institutional Repository for Information Sharing): https://apps.who.int/iris/

c. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field research database: https://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/

d. Google Scholar

  1. The main source of the full-text reports for the screened studies was ReliefWeb (https://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/); where the full report was not available, the websites of the respective humanitarian organization was searched. Google scholar was the main source to search for grey literature
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BMC Medical Ethics

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