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Systematic Review Process: Librarian Collaboration

This guide will assist teammates and researchers at Advocate Health - Midwest who are seeking information on and instructions for conducting systematic reviews.

Librarian Collaboration at Advocate Aurora Health

When you select and retrieve the studies for your review, you will need to store them. Librarians can support researchers at Advocate Health - Midwest with the review process. We can assist at various stages.

We can...

  • Conduct preliminary searching to determine whether there are pre-existing reviews of your topic
  • Work with you as you compose and help you refine an effective search strategy to answer your research question
  • Describe and direct you to bibliographic databases and other sources e.g. grey literature, unpublished literature which is appropriate for your research
  • Use a variety of databases in which we will conduct your searches; provide a file of exported results for your citation manager and de-duplicate your search results
  • Create a record of the strategies used in your searches which will include naming the databases uses, limits used in searches, the number of results, etc.
  • Compose a search methodology section required for publication of your research

Image of librarian collaboration from UNCLibrarians at Advocate Aurora Health can assist patrons in some steps of the systematic review process. This graphic illustrates many ways we can help.