Research Guides: Evidence Synthesis Reviews Guide: Librarian Support

Evidence Synthesis Review Support

UT Tyler librarians offer systematic review consultation services for individuals and research groups. We can help with...

Translating a research question into an effective search strategy
Locating existing systematic reviews and protocols to give you background information for your work
Maximizing the balance between search precision and retrieval
Selecting databases for systematic searching
Advising on grey literature search strategies
Strategies and tools for saving, managing and exporting search results and citations

The Primary investigator (PI):
- must be a UT Tyler faculty member, academic staff member or student.
- Covidence project invitations can be issued to external team members
- Project/research assistance will not be provided to external partners.
If a faculty PI leaves UT Tyler, their new institution should take over providing library-provided subscription services (Covidence, databases, etc.)

No manuscript acknowledgement expected
5-6 librarian work hours.
Initial consultation/discussion to clarify the research question and to determine:
The best review type for your research question (systematic review, scoping review, etc.)
Keywords and subject headings
Develop a search strategy for 1 database of your choosing
Additional databases suited to your topic
At your request, we can provide information on protocol development and registration.
We will create your Covidence account, generate invitations for team members, and provide resources to guide you through usage of the tool.

Help identify and search grey literature sources
Advise on protocol registration
Translate the search strategy and perform searches for up to 3 additional databases.
Provide a citation data file to investigators (RIS is used for Covidence).
Provide detailed documentation of all steps taken so that team members can understand and write the methods section with search strategies.