After the hour-long overview meeting described in Consultation Only, this level of service provides the researcher(s) with additional support and guidance throughout the project. This service level is limited: no more than three hour-long meetings with moderate additional asynchronous (e.g. email) review and advising. Individual students and teams lead by students, residents, and fellows welcome!  

In addition to the roles described in Consultation Only, the librarian will:  

• Provide research consultation  

• Help refine the research question  

• Identify and suggest possible search terms 

• Review researcher- or research team-developed search strategies on the fundamentals of systematic search building 

• Provide information on the software platform decided upon (e.g. EndNote, Covidence, Rayyan, etc.)  

Note:  At this level, the librarian will not build or execute the search and will not contribute to the writing and review of any scholarly output (e.g. poster, presentation or paper). 

In addition to the roles described in Consultation Only, the researcher(s) will:  

• Formally acknowledge the role of the librarian on any poster, presentation or paper resulting from the project  

• In the case of a research team, the Principal Investigator (PI) must be in attendance minimally at the initial meeting  

• If a student is the PI, the faculty member(s) must be in attendance  

In addition to the roles described in Consultation Only and Consultation Plus, this level of service invites the librarian to be part of the research team.

At this level, the librarian must be listed as an author on any resulting presentations or papers.

Principal Investigators are limited to no more than two active reviews at a time with librarians as team members. This level of service requires a memorandum of understanding (MoU).  

This level of service is not available to individual students or teams lead by students, residents, and fellows. Faculty-led teams with student, resident, and fellow members are welcome!  

In addition to the roles described in Consultation Only and Consultation Plus, the librarian will:  

• Determine if a systematic or scoping review has already been done for the topic  

• Advise on protocols (e.g. PROSPERO, Open Science Framework)  

• Advise on adherence to best practices (e.g. PRISMA) 

• Advise on Covidence as screening software, available to current University at Buffalo faculty, staff and students  

• Craft the search strategy, including editing as needed based on review from the research team  

• Translate the search strategy for use in the identified databases of note  

• Run the searches in the identified databases, exporting search results  

• Deduplicate the exported search results  

• Load the results into the selected software  

• Assist with full text retrieval  

• Document the search process  

• Write search methodology section and supply relevant documentation (e.g. search strategies)  

• Contribute to manuscript writing and review as appropriate 

In addition to the roles described in Consultation Only and Consultation Plus, the researchers will:  

• Read and sign the requisite MoU  

• Maintain contact with and provide project updates to the librarian, including if the project is paused or ended 

• The Principal Investigator (PI) must be in attendance at all consultation meetings with the librarian and other team members