Your Subject Librarian can help you with your knowledge synthesis project. However, not to the extent of the involvement that a librarian would normally have in a knowledge synthesis project. (Click here to see how Librarians work with full teams and faculty).
Since your thesis is a project that you are graded on, you will be required to complete the project on your own. This means that you will need to do the expert searching: including tracking search changes, databases used, and dates searched were ran, among other things.
Your subject librarian can:
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Topic
- Help you refine your topic
- Show you where to search for other systematic reviews of the same topic
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Searching
- Guide you on what databases to choose, and what we have access too
- Help you choose what keywords and subject headings will be appropriate for your search, and help translate searches to other databases
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General
- Provide resources to help understand the process and what is involved with a systematic review
- Provide resources on the guidance and protocols of systematic reviews
- Storing and organizing results - suggesting software for containing and screening results
Students will be provided up to 10 hours of the Librarian’s time including in-person meetings, emails, and prep time. Please note that assistance on systematic and scoping reviews is done on a first-come-first-served basis and is dependant on librarian availability.
Before you contact us, please complete the following:
- Johns Hopkins Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Coursera Free
- Complete this asynchronous course on the process of systematic reviews and how they are completed
- Complete this work plan Google Form