Librarian Roles
Librarian involvement is crucial for a quality review. Our librarians are trained experts in advanced review methodologies and are able to work with you throughout the review process. We can help with:
- Identifying the appropriate review methodology
- Aid in the development of research questions using appropriate advanced review frameworks
- Identifying the best tools for the review
- Troubleshooting search strategies
- Identifying guidelines and journal requirements
- Translating search strategies for individual databases
- Identifying existing reviews on the topic
- Assisting with the PRISMA flow diagram
- Identifying high-impact non-predatory journals for publication
- Providing and aiding in completing the PRISMA checklist
- Advising on additional stages of the project
- Write the search strategy
- Conducting exploratory searching on the topic to help determine the feasibility of the project
- Run the search strategy in all databases
- Identifying databases
- De-duplicate results
- Identifying search terms and controlled vocabularies
- Identify gray literature sources
- Creating search alerts
- Register the protocol
- Search for gray literature
- Peer review the search strategy
- Write portions of the methods section of the manuscript
