Two types of Librarian assistance are available to faculty and academic staff researchers: Librarians as co-authors and librarians as consultants, offering different levels of support.
If you are a student looking for assistance, please visit the student review assistance page.
Librarian as Co-author
Time commitment: No time limit. The Librarian will be a co-author on the paper, and timelines will be decided at the start of the project.
Support Offered:
- 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
Librarian as Consultant
Time commitment: Maximum 10 hours (including preparation time).
Support Offered:
- 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.
How to Get Assistance
If you are unfamiliar with knowledge syntheses, it is suggested that you complete the free asynchronous course Johns Hopkins Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis before contacting your Librarian.
Please fill out the request form, complete a draft study protocol, and send it to rdmks@upei.ca.
Please note: Assistance on systematic and scoping reviews is provided on a first-come, first-served basis and is dependent on librarian availability.