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Scoping Reviews

Librarian Levels of Support

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Reach out to the evidence synthesis team by email for assistance in getting started or schedule a consultation below. Librarian availability is dependent on the number of reviews in progress.

Levels of librarian support and how to credit

Much of the work a librarian does to assist researchers falls under their everyday job responsibilities. However, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and meta-analyses, often require greater librarian involvement and include the librarian as a partner in the research project. When these levels of assistance lead to a published paper, it is appropriate to credit the librarian. 

With this in mind, librarians can offer 3 basic levels of support:

  • Uncredited - regular librarian work
    • Overview of review process and best practices
    • Identifying keywords and databases
    • Recommending tools
    • Single consultation
  • Acknowledgement or Contributor note
    • Troubleshooting search strategy
    • Data management consultation
    • Help registering Protocol
    • More than one consultation
  • Authorship (one or more of the following)
    • Using search strategy or filter developed by librarian
    • Help registering a protocol
    • Citation retrieval and management
    • Hand searching for articles
    • Assisting with paper's methods section
    • Section edits

UTA Libraries Publications

Childress, S., Shrestha, N., Covington, E., Stark, L., Seff, I., Black, B., & McKay, M. (2024). Risk and Protective Factors for Well-being and Barriers to Help-Seeking Among Arab-Speaking MENA Immigrants and Refugees in North America: A Scoping Review. Global Social Welfare. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40609-023-00330-6
Brown, K. K., Smith, J. G., Jeffers, R. L., & Pierre, C. J. (2021). Association between nurse work environment and severe maternal morbidity in high-income countries: A systematic review and call to action. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(3), 1206-1217. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14672
Caçola, P., Miller, H., &  Ossom Williamson, P. (2017).  Behavioral comparisons in Autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder: A systematic literature review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 38, 6-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2017.03.004
Offor, N., Ossom Williamson, P., & Caçola, P. (2016). Effectiveness of interventions for children with developmental coordination disorder in physical therapy contexts: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 4(2), 169-196. https://doi.org/10.1123/jmld.2015-0018
Yu, M., Washburn, M., Bayhi, J.L., Xu, W., Carr, L., & Sampson, M. (2025). Home visiting for postpartum depression. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD015984
Rubalcava Hernandez, E. J., Bayhi, J. L., Herron, C., Dew, S., & Nava, M. (2024, August 16). A Scoping Review Protocol to Assess the Health Impacts of Discretionary Arrests on the LGBTQ+ Community in the United States. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/RXHA4
Covington, E., Bayhi, J. L., Burka, J., & Rowe-Morris, M. (2024, July 17). Exploring University of Texas at Arlington Evidence Synthesis Output: A Protocol for an Evidence Map. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/H25YQ
Brown, K. K., Boateng, G. O., Ossom-Williamson, P., & Haygood, L. (2021). Defining, conceptualizing, and measuring perceived maternal care quality in low- to high-income countries: a scoping review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 10(61). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01608-6
Brannon, G. E., Kindratt, T. B., Boateng, G. O., Sankuratri, B. Y. V., & Brown, K. K. (2024). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experience and Diabetes Self-Management Among Nonpregnant Women of Childbearing Age With Diabetes in the United States: A Scoping Review, 1990 to 2020. Women’s Health Issues, 34(1), 26–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2023.08.004 (RaeAnna Jeffers & John L. Bayhi)