Description: Literature review is a tradeoff between comprehensiveness of search and time spent. We offer guidance on where to search and how to search based on your domain specific needs and time budget
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How we help: We provide support as Research consultant (Acknowledgement requested) in the following ways
Case example: I assisted in a 2-hour brainstorming session on search strategies for the topic "Heat stressors and elderly well-being"
Aaron was very helpful in providing guidance on how to scope and test boolean strategies based on how comprehensive of a search we wanted. He helped to validate how well the proposed boolean search strategies was performing by testing to see if pre-determined gold standard papers could be found -- Beatrice Ho, Research Associate • College of Integrative Studies
Description: We offer guidance on
Tools we support:
How we help: We provide support on two levels
Case example: I assisted in the updating of a systematic review - Gender and long-term care insurance: A meta-analysis for ECON6026 capstone assisting in the translation of search strategies from OVID to Ebscohost platforms.
Last but not least, I am deeply thankful to Mr. Aaron Tay, our librarian Data Services Lead, for his invaluable contributions. His advice in updating the systematic review and his dedication to translating Boolean searches have been pivotal in ensuring the accuracy and robustness of our literature search process. -- Amanda Chong Ci, MSc in Applied Economics
Description: We offer guidance on
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How we help: We provide support on two levels
Case example: I supported research by faculty and PhD student.
I’d like to drop a note to formally thank you for your excellent support to my research.
You offered and programmed using Python to extract the data for my research project. I recall you briefed quite a number of my research assistants on databases.
I am sure you will continue to provide excellent and professional support in the future. I am glad that you are with SMU. -- Associate Professor of Accounting
Guidance to obtain S&P500 data start and ending data with Permno for subsequent matching to financial performance. -- PhDGM student
Description: We offer guidance on
Tools we support:
How we help: We provide support in the following ways as a research consultant (acknowledgement requested)
Case example: I assisted in helping with reviews on topics like CSR and discussions about the possibility of doing bibliometric review/analysis.
I really appreciate the expertise and knowledge sharing from librarians in not only areas like searching conventional tools like Scopus and AI search tools (e.g. Elicit and Undermind.ai); but also their knowledge of the conduct of bibliometric reviews and related tools like VOSviewer;-- Rony Hu (Hu Jian), PhD in Business SMO