Systematic reviews are essential for your research question

Systematic reviews are essential for research to identify scientific literature relevant to your clinical research question. The selection and review of the most important studies, and to summarise and present these results is essential to progress research to enable the development of clinical practice into guidelines.

The University of Melbourne Library offer an Expert Search Service for academic and honorary staff and research students.  The service provides assistance with the undertaking of systematic reviews, both at the planning and implementation phases.

Library staff can develop effective search strategies, recommend appropriate sources and test run and refine strategies.  A charge-back service is also available where library professionals can run searches, collect and de-duplicate records and retrieve articles using University of Melbourne subscriptions and open access resources. Advice can be provided for retrieval of other sources.

Up to three hours of advice are supplied free of charge and ongoing support is charged at $60/hr.  A completed systematic review search including retrieval of up to 100 items can usually be performed for $1000-1500.   The library also provides Covidence workspaces for systematic review teams aligned to the University of Melbourne.

To find out more or request this service contact Faculty Librarian (MDHS &FVAS) Patrick Condron (Tel : 03 8344 7842 p.condron@unimelb.edu.au ) or submit a request.