Systematic Review Services

We are an interdisciplinary team of information specialists / liaison librarians, who can advise you on systematic literature searches and assist you in conducting evidence syntheses.

With our assistance, you can improve the quality of your review's search strategy and speed up the process in many ways.

As a member of the University of Zurich, you are entitled to free consultation from the specialists at the University Library and Central Library of Zurich for each project!

Please feel free to send us your inquiry using the contact form.

From a free initial consultation to the complete implementation of the search strategy, including documentation (“Requests for Research in Databases”  infees), we support you according to your needs and in close cooperation with you on the following topics related to systematic reviews and related types of evidence synthesis:

• Research question & protocol development
• Development of search strategies & implementation of systematic research
• Methodological support
• Reporting

Our core services

• Development of the search strategy
• Selection of information sources: databases, study registries, gray literature
• Conducting the search in the specified databases
• Deduplication of hits and delivery in the desired format
• Documentation of the search (search strategies, databases, flow chart)
• Description of the search methodology for manuscripts

In addition, our team also has expertise in data extraction and synthesis.

After you have contacted us using the form, we will get in touch with you to clarify your requirements and discuss the next steps in more detail.

We offer free advice on individual steps of the above-mentioned services or carry out the desired services for you in their entirety. Please note that fees are charged for this service (see “Requests for Research in Databases”).

If the information specialists / liaison librarians are not listed as co-authors, we expect to be mentioned in the acknowledgements.