*Please note that ESP is operating at reduced capacity during Fall 2026*

ESP is open to collaboration with the following groups:

• Faculty & Postdoctoral Scholars
• Administrators
• Dissertation-Writers

We expect faculty-led review teams to do the following: 

1. Complete a study protocol prior to screening articles. Making the protocol publicly available at this time via a registry (PROSPERO), repository (OSF), or publication is highly encouraged. 

2. Disseminate the evidence synthesis product in an academic journal or monograph. 

3. List the evidence synthesis librarian and any librarian apprentices as authors of resulting works. 

4. Deposit a copy of the manuscript in ScholarWorks, the UMass Amherst institutional repository. 

We expect dissertators and their advisors to do the following: 

1. Confirm that their level of experience and training are suitable for conducting evidence synthesis methodologies in the dissertation project. 

2. Advisors shall explicitly approve of collaborating with the Evidence Synthesis Partnership for the purpose of developing the search strategy.  

3. Submit a thorough intake request form that includes all pertinent details needed to develop the search strategy. Dissertators are highly encouraged to record the information provided in the request form as a study protocol to be made publicly available. 

4. Acknowledge the evidence synthesis librarian in the dissertation. If the dissertation is subsequently published in an academic journal or monograph, the evidence synthesis librarian should be credited as an author. 

5. Deposit a copy of the manuscript in ScholarWorks, the UMass Amherst institutional repository. 

Please tell us about your project via the intake form!