Interested in learning more about our Systematic Review tiered service?
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The University of Maryland Libraries’ Systematic Review Team supports all students, faculty, and staff affiliated with the UMD College Park campus. Our services are free of charge and include workshops, customized guest lectures, and course support, faculty collaboration and project support, and one-on-one consultations on all aspects of systematic review research and teaching.
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Are you embarking on a systematic review project?
Librarians at the UMD Libraries are expert searchers and offer a systematic review service to faculty, students, and research staff. We are available to guide and collaborate with researchers on the following tasks:
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Levels of systematic review service
We provide one-on-one guidance to researchers interested in conducting a literature review. During a one-hour consultation, we offer an overview of the systematic review process, including protocol development, search strategy design, database selection, study collection and organization, screening procedures, and manuscript preparation.
We collaborate with researchers by generating key terms, constructing or refining search strings for specific databases, and/or reviewing the search strategies they develop. The librarian’s contribution should be recognized in the publication’s acknowledgment section.
We take a lead role in developing and executing the search strategy across relevant databases, managing study records, and preparing materials for the researcher’s screening process. The librarian may also contribute to writing the search methodology section. The librarian’s contribution warrants inclusion as a middle co-author in the final publication. |
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Further reading about librarians' contributions to systematic reviews
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For faculty only: To request an instruction session for your class or a workshop for your department, please fill out the Systematic Review Workshop Request form.
If you have any other questions about this service, please write to us at systrev@umd.edu
The Campbell Collaboration Systematic Review online course "provides an overview of the steps involved in conducting a systematic (scientific) review of results of multiple quantitative studies. These steps include: problem formulation, searching for relevant literature, screening potentially eligible studies, coding and critically appraising studies, synthesizing results across studies using meta-analysis, reporting and disseminating results, and updating or re-analysis of data."
