Service for Systematic, Scoping and Other Reviews

We are at capacity for projects and are not accepting new requests. 

If your project can't wait, you can learn how to execute the search yourself using our course (log in with MGB username and password).

Alternatively, you may be able to leverage a librarian at a different institution if someone on your team has another affiliation or you can post a request for work to Cochrane Engage.

Incorporating a librarian into your project is an excellent way to improve your search methodology. Cochrane, JBI, and other major research organizations recommend having a librarian draft your search. 

Treadwell librarians are available to participate as co-authors on comprehensive review projects. Comprehensive projects include but are not limited to systematic reviews without or without a meta-analysis, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, and integrative reviews. For non-comprehensive (narrative) reviews, we ask for an acknowledgment. 

Below is a list of duties we'll perform:

• Hold a consultation meeting
• Guide you to the right standards and registry
• Fill out sections in the protocol relating to the search
• Create searches for all required databases
• Deduplicate and upload results into Covidence 
• Create a PRISMA-compliant methods section and supplement
• Review manuscript and draft responses to peer reviewers or editors 
• Help upload full-text articles

• A project lead who is an employee of Massachusetts General Hospital.
• A registered protocol. We will show you the correct PRISMA-compliant protocol form and registry. 
• Involvement from the project lead. 
• Inclusion as a co-author, including permission to review the final manuscript before publication.

We have a self-paced module on how to design and execute a literature search for common review methodologies. The course is available for enrollment. Sign in using your MGB username and password to access:

• How to Perform Literature Searches for Systematic, Scoping and Other Reviews

Creating and/or peer-reviewing search strategies is time-intensive work. We recommend you either take our course to learn how to improve your search or if you would like hands-on editing, we will recommend our co-authorship service.

• The librarian retains the right to refuse co-authorship.
• The librarian retains the right to exit a project if the topic is not viable and the team is unwilling to revise the topic. 
• If you request multiple projects, they will be worked on sequentially. 
• Out of consideration for other teams waiting for our help, your project may be placed on temporary hold if we do not receive timely responses.