The TCU Burnett School of Medicine Library provides three service tiers to provide the highest levels of service and quality to the TCU School of Medicine Community.
Tier I – No Acknowledgement or co-authorship necessary: A consultation for reviews is generally 1 – 2 hours of work, where you meet with the researcher and the databases that might work for their topic, keywords and limiters, and then show them an example of the search on a database.
Tier II – Acknowledgement: A collaborator for reviews can be 2 – 10 hours of work, where all the services listed out in Tier I are given and a full search strategy is filled out for one database, such as PubMed/Medline. Librarian should be acknowledged in the final publication.
Tier III – Co-authorship: A higher-level review can take months or year(s). Most of the work the librarian will do is on the front end, helps to define the searches based on appropriate methodology, perform all of the searches, obtain the full text when needed. The librarian will retain control and be responsible for writing the search methodology and adding the search strategy to the tables usually in an Appendix.
Note:
Due to the in-depth and time-intensive nature of this work, services may not be immediately available if maximum capacity has been reached. In such cases, your request will be queued and we will communicate with you about estimated start date.
As projects evolve, librarians reserve the right to reassign a new tier level, on a project, to accurately reflect the nature of the work being conducted. We reserve the right to abstain from co-authorship.
