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Dec 2023 Notice:

From December 14, 2023 to January 2, 2024, the SSRC will be closed and will not be considering any new requests during this period. Please do not submit a request during this time.

The SSRC will resume as of January 3, 2024 and you will receive a reply in January about the status of your request.

Submitting an application does not guarantee an acceptance, as this will be based on the factors listed on our Eligibility & Parameters page of our Systematic & Scoping Review Collaboration (SSRC).

You should receive a response within 5 business days. However at times of high volume, it may take longer to get back to you.

The SSRC is intended for evidence synthesis-type reviews leading to original research, not for the purpose of assignments or course-related studies. Students involved in assignment or course-related research can meet with a librarian for a consultation on how to conduct a comprehensive search of the literature:

You must be a current University of Toronto faculty, or staff in the health sciences, or social sciences at the St. George campus, and the Principal Investigator of the project to apply for the SSRC. It is NOT for students.
The SSRC is for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other types of knowledge syntheses

This application form must be submitted by the Principal Investigator.

*NOTICE: The SSRC will be closed during holidays

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1. Name

2. What is your current UofT status?

3. Please list all of your affiliations - Faculty, department, hospital and/or cross-appointments.

Example: Dr. Ali Smith, MD, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Scientist at SickKids hospital

4. Email

5. Phone Number

6. Who are your team members, and what are their roles in this project?

Knowledge syntheses are a team sport, we require all projects to have a team in place.

More information on review teams

Article: The influence of the team in conducting a systematic review

7. Do you or another member of your team have experience conducting this type of study? Please describe.

More on conducting knowledge syntheses as a team:

Uttley, L., Montgomery, P. The influence of the team in conducting a systematic review. Syst Rev 6, 149 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0548-x
https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-017-0548-x

8. Have you already met with a librarian?

Yes

Find your liaison librarian

List of liaison librarians

9. If yes, which librarian?

10. Is this for a grant proposal?

Yes

Librarians are included as Co-applicants or Collaborators or Knowledge Experts on grant submissions.

11. If yes, which funding agency? (e.g. CIHR, SHHRC,etc)

12. What type of study are you conducting? (e.g. systematic review, scoping review, narrative review, etc.)

13. Which methodological framework are you using for your review? (e.g. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews; JBI, Arksey & O'Malley, Levac & Colquhoun for scoping reviews, etc.)

More information on methodological frameworks for systematic and scoping reviews

14. Which reporting guideline are you using for your study? A reporting guideline is how you report your work, not how you conduct it (e.g. PRISMA for systematic reviews)

15. What is your research question? (e.g. ‘What are the effects of [intervention or comparison] for [health problem] in [types of people, disease or problem and setting if specified?]")

16. What are your inclusion and exclusion criteria?

17. What is your rationale for conducting this review? What gap in clinical practice/the literature/policy will it address?

18. Have you searched to determine if a review or protocol have already been published or registered on your topic?

Yes

19. What is your timeframe for this project? (e.g. include the anticipated start date and end date of your review)

(Reviews take up to a year, or more, to complete. If your timeframe is tight, a librarian may not be able to accommodate your request. Please see timeframe chart)*

20. Please provide key citations the researcher/team have already identified (e.g. PMIDS, DOIs, etc.)

21. Do you have a protocol?

Yes

*We require all teams to have a protocol. Please have a completed protocol ready, as we will request a copy to be emailed to us in our initial reply to your request*

More about protocols

Help with protocols

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