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Service for Systematic, Scoping and Other Reviews

Resources for conducting review projects

Full service is available

Treadwell librarians are available to participate as co-authors on comprehensive reviews, which include but are not limited to: systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, and integrative reviews. We also assist with non-comprehensive projects (narrative reviews) for an acknowledgment. 

Fill out the intake form for the type of project you'll be pursuing:

What we provide to teams

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.

Below is a list of duties we'll perform as a co-author on your comprehensive review:

  • 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 

What we require from teams

  • A project lead who is an employee of Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • A registered protocol using this template from the Countway R&I team.
  • Involvement from the project lead. 
  • Inclusion as a co-author, including permission to review the final manuscript before publication.

All of our policies can be found here.

Can someone teach me how to search?

 

We have a self-paced module on how to conduct common review methodologies, designed by Melis Lydston, that covers executing the literature search. The course is available for enrollment. Sign in using your MGB username and password to access:

I'd like someone to review my search or help me with keywords.

Peer-reviewing search strategies is time-intensive work, and systematic searches include far more than just keywords. This type of searching involves learning multiple coding languages. 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.

Guides and standards

Read the first lesson of our course to learn more about the types of reviews you can conduct, standards to follow, and guides to walk you through the process. We'll also cover all of this in our intake meeting.