Lane Medical Library

Literature Search Service Level Agreement

  • Literature or reviews of a systematic nature is a value-added service available for current members of the Stanford medical community. The project lead and point-of-contact to Lane must be a Stanford affiliate. In an effort to provide the highest levels of service and quality to the entire community, we have broken our participation and services into 3 user options.
  • Due to the nuanced nature of the work, as projects evolve individual librarians retain the right to change tiers to accurately reflect the nature of the work being conducted, as well as refuse co-authorship. On publication of the article you will provide acknowledged or co-author librarian a copy of the published manuscript for his/her portfolio.
  • NOTE: Due to the in-depth and time-intensive nature of this work, each librarian can work on a limited number of in-depth reviews at a time so the service may not be immediately available if we have already reached our maximum capacity. In such cases, your request will be queued and we will communicate with you about estimated start date.
  • Prior to requesting an initial meeting please fill out our

Intake Form

SERVICE LEVELLIBRARIAN AUTHORSHIPDELIVERABLESWORK
(average)
Tier OneAcknowledgement
  1. Initial meeting
  2. Review intake form determining if the project is systematic review vs. other type of review (e.g., protocol review, narrative review, literature review for grant application, etc.)
  3. Develop a PubMed search strategy
  4. Identification and suggestion of other databases to user for extending search
  5. Advise on citation management and article appraisal tools
3 hours
Tier TwoCo-authorshipTier One plus:
  1. Identification of other appropriate databases for extending search
  2. Translations of searches into other databases
  3. Setting up automated database search alerts
  4. Provide guidance on searching the grey literature and/or hand searching
  5. Development of PRISMA flowchart (upon request)
  6. Writing of the methods section + search strategy
3-10 hours
Tier ThreeCo-authorshipTier One & Two plus one or more of:
  1. Collaboration at a national/international level conference or on a national-level guideline
  2. More in-depth collaboration on additional parts of the project (e.g., writing other parts of the manuscript, providing additional input/support with the systematic review process, etc.)
  3. Recommend tools for journal submission selection
  4. Advise on compliance with NIH Public Access Policy
10 hours+

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