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The UCLA Library offers tiered assistance with systematic reviews for research staff, graduate students and faculty.
Tier 1 - Consultation
A librarian will consult on a project. A librarian may suggest edits/alterations in your search strategy, provide guidance on the review process in general, or recommend databases or other tools. This consultation is limited to a maximum of 3 one-hour sessions per project.
Tier 2 - Collaboration
A librarian will be a hands-on part of the systematic review team and, as such, receive author credit on any publication stemming from the review. A librarian will:
- Comment on the protocol
- Methodological assessment
- Help refine/define the question asked
- Select databases/grey literature sources
- Create the initial search strategy and translate searches to other databases
- Run searches and export results to citation manager/systematic review software
- Perform de-duplication when necessary
- Write the methods section related to literature searches
- Provide exact search strategies to teams for publication
Systematic reviews help busy clinicians make sense of varied, often conflicting individual studies on a highly specific topic. The systematic review processes created by the Cochrane Collaboration or the Joanna Briggs Institute follow specific steps to ensure rigor and reduce bias, producing documents that can help guide healthcare decisions.
Read our Systematic Reviews Research Guide(opens in a new tab) to learn more about systematic reviews and the process of creating one with your team.
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