Service for Systematic, Scoping and Other Reviews

We are currently accepting requests for review projects. Fill out our intake form for comprehensive reviews (systematic, scoping, rapid, etc.) or our form for non-comprehensive (narrative) reviews.

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. 

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 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.

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

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.

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.