Health Science Librarians are available to assist you with your scoping review.
The Health Sciences Library offers support for Stony Brook researchers conducting systematic and scoping reviews. Librarians have specialized expertise in literature searching, controlled vocabularies, search strategy construction, and resource utilization and selection that can be highly valuable in the SR research process. Our services range from basic training and consultation to higher levels of involvement for which author credit is required, see list below.
Consultation
- Advice on research question formulation
- Guidance on principles of Scoping Review
- Advice on database selection based on research topic
- Instruction on database platforms
- Instruction on advanced search techniques
- Training on the use of citation management tools such as Endnote, Rayyan, Covidence.
Collaboration
- Assisting with developing and documenting search protocol
- Creation of search strategies including the recommendation of controlled vocabulary terms
- Translation of completed search strategies into multiple databases
- Running the search protocol and documenting results
- Downloading and de-duplicating the results, maintaining records in citation management software
- Writing Search methods section of manuscript
- Providing data for PRISMA flow chart
Intake Form for Review Consultation or Collaboration
