Request a Systematic Review

Collaborate with expert searchers to publish your systematic review. The Weill Cornell Medical Library has knowledgeable staff to guide you through this evidence-based process. Please contact the Information Desk to learn more.

Systematic review collaboration may include:

• Helping to define a research question
• Assisting in developing and registering the protocol
• Targeting specific databases and other resources to be searched
• Identifying database-specific search strategies using a combination of keywords and controlled vocabulary to maximize precision and recall
• Conducting literature searches
• Snowballing  - pulling references from bibliographies, pulling "cited by" references and identifying related articles
• Delivering results into a bibliographic management tool such as EndNote or Mendeley
• Performing search updates in selected databases
• Suggesting journals relevant to areas of research
• Recommending MeSH terms and keywords for articles
• Providing access to Covidence, a systematic review tool

Once a search is completed, a librarian will write the literature search methodology section for the submitted manuscript, maintain records of search results, and follow up with alerts and updates as needed.

Librarians are co-authors on systematic review collaborations.

Make a Request

Please complete the following form to the best of your ability. It will be used to guide your first consultation with a librarian.

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