Librarians can provide support for researchers in a number of ways. The services listed below are subject to individual librarian availability and workload. Please contact your liaison librarian for more information.
- Librarians offer search strategy consultations and searching support
- Workload permitting, librarians may join a research team and/or project
Librarians as a co-author/team member
The following information outlines the services librarians may provide, which require co-author recognition.
- Meet with the team to refine the research question
- Develop and structure the search
- Translate the search for each database
- Execute the search in all databases
- Export the records
- Write the Search Methods section of the paper and prepare the Search Appendix for publication, describing all of the searches
- Review the final paper for publication and answer follow-up questions about the search
For more information on research services, contact your liaison librarian.