How can librarians/information specialists help?
Librarians/information specialists can support AUB faculty and students with all types of reviews. Subject specialists can particularly assist with the different stages of scoping reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses including:
- Checking for existing systematic reviews on a topic
- Search concepts and strategy construction for initial search strategy / peer review of search strategies
- Database selection ; grey literature / unpublished literature choices
- Performing the search in different databases, exporting the results to a citation manager (e.g. EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley), and de-duplicating the search results
- Documenting search strategies, databases, limits, number of results, etc.
- Writing the search methodology section
Source: UNC University Libraries
