Librarians can partner with Yale & YNHH faculty and staff to co-author systematic reviews, scoping reviews, or other comprehensive literature searches. Some of the librarian's roles are listed below.
To request an appointment with a librarian, please fill out the Comprehensive Search Services form.
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Librarian Roles
Question formulation
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Feedback on framing of research question
Guidance with development processes
- Guidance on timelines, skills and competencies required to complete a systematic review
- Referral to relevant reporting guidelines/standards
- Referral to relevant handbooks, training modules, and guidance documents
Protocol development
- Instruction on where to find existing protocols
- Identification of example protocols
- Identification of existing systematic reviews on the same topic (if any)
- Search methodology for protocol
- Feedback on protocol
Search strategy
- Translation of research question into draft search strategy
- Peer review of search strategies
- Advice on relevant electronic databases and sources to search
- Execution of search in all relevant databases
- Searching of grey literature
Bibliographic organization tools
- Import of all search results into EndNote, de-duplication and export to preferred format
- Advice on using EndNote, manuscript templates, organizing citations, etc
Manuscript development (for librarian co-authored projects only)
- Develop search appendix
- Write search methodology for publication
- Review full manuscript
Support from library staff (for librarian co-authored projects only)
- Retrieving full-text articles from Yale collections
- Ordering interlibrary loan articles