Systematic Review Service

To work with our Systematic Review Service, we require that: 

• A recent systematic review on the same topic must not already be published or registered as a protocol. 

• Your timeframe must be feasible for your assigned MSK librarian. Searches can take a month or more to complete, depending on the response time of the team and the complexity of the topic.

• Your systematic review is not for a course or summer assignment.

• A primary researcher must be affiliated with MSK. 

• Multiple requests from the same primary researcher will be handled successively, not concurrently. In general, we will consider beginning a new review once the full-text screening stage of the preceding review is completed. This allows the team to fully focus on each review.

• You must have a team with a minimum of two active members, preferably more. 

• A draft of your review protocol must be in process and shared with your MSK librarian, including at minimum a focused research question and inclusion and exclusion criteria. 

• You must be open to refining your research question with your MSK librarian if it is too broad.

• You must send your MSK librarian the review manuscript and its supplements prior to their submission to a journal or conference.

• You must include your MSK librarian as a co-author on the resulting publication. 

Please reach out if you have any questions about these policies, or would like to speak to an MSK librarian before requesting a new review.