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Systematic Reviews

Librarian Roles

Librarian involvement is crucial for a quality review. Support team members are trained experts in advanced review methodologies and are able to work with you throughout the review process. Our librarians 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

 

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