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Your Name: *

Your Kerberos ID (KID) or NetID: *

Email (please use your NYU affiliated address) *

Who is the principal Investigator (if applicable)?

What is your affiliation? *

What is your department, institute, or lab? *

What is your role?

What type of review are you seeking to do? *

Systematic (synthesizing and critically appraising all available evidence to answer a research question)

Scoping (comprehensively identifying the current state of research on a question)

Other

What is the research question? (Structured in a format such as PICO, if applicable). *

Are there any prior or related reviews on the research question? (If yes, include citations or links to them).

What is the need for this new review? *

Have you written a protocol for the review?

Yes

Not Yet

Where do you plan to publish or present the review? Is there a submission deadline?

What are the eligibility criteria for including a study in the review?

What are some examples of studies that would meet criteria for inclusion in the review? *

What databases and other information sources do you plan to include in the search strategy?

Who is on the research team for the review? What will each member be responsible for?

Requested level of involvement from library faculty: *

Consultation
30-60 min consultation with a library faculty member for feedback on search strategy

Expert Searching (if your team has already written a protocol for the review)
A library faculty member will join the review as co-author and be responsible for:

• Writing the search methods
• Executing the search strategy
• Importing search results to Covidence
• Guiding the team in how to retrieve full text of studies

Collaboration
In addition to Expert Searching, a library faculty member will join the review as co-author and be available to advise in areas such as:

• Guiding the team in how to develop and register a protocol
• Guiding the team in how to configure Covidence for screening and data extraction
• Guiding the team in how to format a review for submission to a journal or conference

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