Need Assistance?

• Librarians are available to consult and train on multiple aspects of advanced reviews, including systematic reviews and scoping reviews. 
• Systematic Reviews and scoping reviews are a time-intensive team process, because of this our team of librarians are unable to provide searching and methodology services at this time.
• Librarians will consult with your team and advise on areas as defined below. This support may also include 1-2 meetings.

Librarian Consultation 

Schedule a consult with your librarian. Your librarian can describe the process to you and point you to the best resources. They can give you guidance on your search strategy and make recommendations for improvement. This might be one or two 1-hour meetings.

Library team members are ready to assist with the following:

• Provide an overview of the systematic review or scoping review process
• Inform research team of SR standards (IOM, PRISMA, Cochrane)
• Assist researchers with resources to help formulate a research question
Provide overview of Covidence for review management
• Suggesting databases for searching
• Support as a consultant on search strategy development (Research team is responsible for building, performing, and translating searches across databases)
• Providing training on EndNote for management of citations
• Instruct on obtaining full text articles access through library collection and ILL if necessary

Reach out to your librarian or AskALibrarian@unthsc.edu for more information