The Medical Library staff may assist in literature searching using controlled vocabularies, creation of search strategies, choosing databases, managing references, and teaching researchers how to use Zotero in-person or via Zoom.
Reviews contain a lot of librarian involvement and when published, librarians should receive credit.
- Acknowledgement/Contributor note - regular librarian work with significant support
- Help with formulating research question & search strategy.
- Guidance on the steps of a systematic review.
- Assistance with choosing which databases to search.
- Help with searching each of the selected databases.
- Troubleshooting search strategy.
- Data management consultation.
- Authorship (one or more of the following)
- Using search strategy or filter written by librarian.
- Help registering a protocol.
- Citation retrieval and management.
- Help with searching for articles.
- Assistance with downloading and deduplication of results.
- Credit for writing search methods portion of manuscript, including PRISMA flow chart.
