The following services are available to all faculty, research staff, and students conducting systematic reviews from both the Yunnan and Novena campuses.
Our library staff can assist with:
Services available for collaboration only:
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Collaboration services are subject to staff availability and prioritised for university research intended for publication. As these services require significant time commitment, formal acknowledgment of the library staff’s contribution must be included in any resulting publication. Co-authorship is highly encouraged.
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A systematic approach to organise and manage literature searching processes. Suggested steps:
Find search terms, keywords, phrases
- Find subject headings, sub-headings, thesaurus terms, synonyms, index terms
- Highly relevant papers/ key papers – words in title/ abstract/ author keywords/ subject terms
- Published search strategies e.g. in Systematic Reviews
Develop search strategy
- Consistent search strategy using Boolean operators, truncation, etc
- Evaluate results and refine, think about your inclusion/ exclusion criteria
- Retrieval of highly relevant/ key articles
Selecting databases
- Select relevant databases for an exhaustive/ comprehensive search,
- Consider Grey literature or relevant websites or repositories relevant to the research topic
Documenting search methods
- Finalised search strategy, databases searched, filters/ limiters used (e.g. language, publication years), number of search results, date search performed
- PRISMA can be used as a guide
- Database personal account allows saved searches and creation of alerts for notification of new publications
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