Library Systematic and Scoping Review Services for Faculty and Academic Staff

There are two different types of Librarian assistance available to faculty or academic staff researchers, Librarians as co-authors and librarians as consultants, which offer different levels of support. If you are a student looking for assistance, please visit the student review assistance page. 

 

To request librarian assistance with your review, please fill out the request form, and complete a draft study protocol and send it to publications@upei.ca. 

 

Time commitment: no time limit, but the Librarian would be listed as a co-author on the paper, timelines will be decided at the start of the project. 

 

• Assistance formulating a research question

• Assistance in identifying relevant databases

• Assistance in selecting a review management system

• Check for published or in-process review on the same topic

• Create a search strategy for review with research team

• Translate search strategy into all selected databases

• Run search in selected databases

• Provide guidance on searching grey literature

• Compile, prepare, and import search results into selected review management system

• Write relevant parts of the methodology section of the paper

• Review of final manuscript

 

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Time commitment: max 10 hours (including preparation time) 

 

• Advice or assistance formulating a research question

• Guidance on checking for published or in-process review on the same topic

• Guidance on creating a search strategy and translating a strategy into other databases

• Providing guidance on organization of results/sources

• Providing resources for guidance on the systematic review process. 

 

It is suggested that if you are unfamiliar with knowledge syntheses that you complete the free asynchronous course Johns Hopkins Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis before contacting your Librarian

 

Please fill out a request form, and complete the draft study protocol and send it to publications@upei.ca