Assembling the pieces of a systematic review: a guide for librarians

Abstract

Finally, a book about systematic reviews for librarians!While there is no shortage of Libguides, web resources and methods handbooks available on systematic review methodology, very few (besides SuRe Info) are intended specifically for information specialists, and resources on how to create or run systematic review services are virtually nonexistent outside of what is reported in the academic literature [1].For this reason, Assembling the pieces of a systematic review: a guide for librarians fills an important gap as the first monograph (to my knowledge) to cover these topics in depth.Written by a team of librarians, and edited by Margaret Foster (Texas A&M University) and Sarah Jewell (Rutgers University), this book is intended for "training librarians new to systematic reviews, for those developing a new systematic review service, for those wanting to establish protocols for a current service, and as a reference for those conducting reviews or running a service" [2].Foster and Jewell guide the reader through the steps of the systematic review process, or as they describe it, PIECES (which stands for Planning, Identifying, Evaluating, Collecting and combining, Explaining, and Summarizing), which many of you may recognize from Margaret Foster's webinar series of the same name, which ran from February to August 2017 [3].The book is structured around the PIECES framework, with chapters on the following topics: introduction to systematic reviews; finding, evaluating and applying reviews in various disciplines; the reference interview; team dynamics and data management; database searching; grey literature searching; case studies of review questions and searches conducted to address them; study selection and critical appraisal; data extraction; writing; systematic review services; and librarianship and systematic reviews.

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