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WSU librarians offer two tiers of systematic review services: consultation or collaboration. If you would like a librarian to assist your evidence synthesis review (such as a systematic review), please complete the form to request a meeting with a librarian. We will respond to your request within three business days.
Consultation (librarian acknowledged in resulting publication)
- Librarian explains the systematic review process.
- Librarian suggests which databases to search.
- Librarian performs a basic literature search in a selected database to provide a sense of the size and scope of relevant studies.
- Librarian demonstrates how to create a detailed search strategy and perform an advanced search in a selected database.
- Librarian explains how to organize and de-duplicate search results.
- Librarian demonstrates how to obtain full-text articles.
Collaboration (librarian is a co-author on resulting conference abstract(s) and publication)
- Librarian helps refine the research question.
- Librarian participates in defining inclusion and exclusion criteria.
- Librarian creates detailed search strategies for multiple databases.
- Librarian runs searches in databases.
- Librarian performs other methods of identifying relevant studies (e.g., grey literature search, conference abstract and proceedings search, hand-searching)
- Librarian organizes and de-duplicates search results.
- Librarian keeps detailed records of the search process and its outcomes.
- Depending on their subject expertise, librarian participates in title/abstract or full-text screening.
- Librarian acquires full-text articles.
- Librarian writes relevant parts of the Methods and/or Results sections (including creating a PRISMA flow diagram) of the manuscript.