We offer a systematic and scoping review service to Dartmouth and DHMC faculty, staff, and students.
We offer two levels of service for systematic and scoping reviews. One level offers consultation and training, and the other provides librarian collaborators.
The service is available for Dartmouth and DHMC faculty, staff, and students. Capacity is limited, and reviews are undertaken on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you have grant support for conducting your systematic review, talk to us about a funded partnership for priority access and additional services.
Initial Consultation with a Librarian
The first step is booking a consultation with a librarian. In this meeting, you will discuss your research and the type of review best addresses your research question.
Tier 1: Consultation and Training
A librarian will consult and provide training on different aspects of conducting a systematic review. This level typically includes 1-3 meetings or team training sessions, and the librarian’s role is advisory.
Consultation Services
- Help formulate the research question
- Verify that the question has not recently been addressed in a published systematic review
- Advise on reporting standards and best practices (e.g., PRISMA Guidelines, Cochrane, etc.)
- Advise on database selection
- Provide feedback on your search strategy
- Discuss software tools for organizing systematic reviews
Training Services
- How to perform a reproducible, comprehensive, documented search using multiple databases
- How to use the screening tool
- How to obtain the full text of published papers
Tier 2: Partnership
At this level of service, librarians join your systematic review team as search methodology experts and will provide the following services. These constitute a major contribution to the review, for which the librarians are included as co-authors.
Partnership Services
Searching
- Identify relevant databases to search
- Identify keywords and subject headings
- Develop reproducible, comprehensive search strategies
- Translate strategies for each database
- Conduct searches in multiple databases
- Peer review of search strategy
- Export results, including the removal of duplicate records
- Document search result numbers for PRISMA flow diagram and archive search strategies
Methodology
- Librarians will describe the search strategy and its execution for the methods section of the manuscript
- Librarians will provide an appendix with the search strategies from all included databases
