Advanced Reviews Support

At the consultation level, team members can provide up to 3 hours of their time, in-person or virtual consultation either with individuals or with a full research team with followup emails. 

During these consultations, we will cover:

• The differences between advanced review types and the appropriateness of one or the other for the research team’s needs. 
• The overall review process along with methodological standards and best practices, including:
  • Protocol development
  • Research question frameworks
  • Search strategy design
  • Database selection
  • Gray literature searching
  • Tools for review and/or citation management

At the collaboration level, support team members can provide up to 8 hours of support (at the support team member's discretion). During this time, we can provide multiple in-person or virtual consultations either with individuals or with a research team and provide troubleshooting and advising via email. 

Consultation offerings include: 

• Assisting with generating key terms

• Creating and refining search strings for specific databases

• Troubleshooting search strategies for precision and sensitivity

• Translating search strings between multiple databases

At this level, the support team member will not write a full search strategy, but will serve in an advisory role OR may provide a peer review of the search strategy in alignment with PRESS guidelines. 

At the team member’s discretion, we may also provide support in training for tools like Zotero, Covidence, and Rayyan and assist with protocol development and registration in a repository like PROSPERO or Open Science Framework.

For this level of support, we request acknowledgment in the published review.

Librarian co-authorship is available subject to librarian availability and interest. At this level, the librarian will: 

• Write the search strategy in collaboration with the research team

• Translate the search for all necessary databases

• Run the searches, documenting throughout for the PRISMA flow diagram

They may also provide citation management and other tool training and support. 

Librarian co-authors will additionally facilitate registering a protocol, write appropriate portions of the methods section, and complete a PRISMA checklist prior to article submission.

At the co-authorship level, the research team should agree to include the librarian as a co-author.

If you'd like to discuss bringing a librarian on to your team as a co-author, contact us at library-star@unl.edu.