Collaborative Literature Reviews (CoLRev)

Summary

CoLRev is an open-source environment for collaborative literature reviews. It integrates with differerent synthesis tools, takes care of the data, and facilitates Git-based collaboration.

To accomplish these goals, CoLRev advances the design of review technology at the intersection of methods, design, cognition, and community building. The following features stand out:

• Supports all literature review steps: problem formulation, search, dedupe, (pre)screen, pdf retrieval and preparation, and synthesis
• An open and extensible environment based on shared data and process standards
• Builds on git and its transparent collaboration model for the entire literature review process
• Offers a self-explanatory, fault-tolerant, and configurable user workflow
• Operates a model for data quality, content curation, and reuse
• Enables typological and methodological pluralism throughout the process

See the documentation and statements of development status for more details. A brief overview presented at ESMARConf2023 is available on YouTube.

Demo

A live demonstration is available via GitHub codespaces: start demo.

Contributing, changes, and releases

Contributions, code and features are always welcome

• See contributing guidelines, help page, and github repository.
• Bug reports or feedback? Please use the issue tracker and let us know.
• To get your work included, fork the repository, implement your changes, and create a pull request.

For further information, see tests, changes, and releases.

Contributors

Gerit Wagner 💻 📖 🔣 🖋 💡	Julian Prester 💻 📖 🔣 🖋 🐛 🤔	Tarin Mahmood 💻 ⚠️ 📖	dengdenglele 🔣 📖 ⚠️	mhlbrsimon 💻	ossendorfluca 💻	katharinaernst 💻
einfachjessi 💻	Janus678 💻	frxdericz 💻	MalouSchmidt 💻	RheaDoesStuff 💻	Cohen2000 💻	RobertAhr 💻
ThomasFleischmann 💻	AntonFrisch 💻	LouisLangenhan 💻 📖	Peter Eckhardt 💻 📖	User123projekt 💻 📖	LuminousLynx 💻 📖

License

This project is distributed under the MIT License the documentation is distributed under the CC-0 license. If you contribute to the project, you agree to share your contribution following these licenses.

Citing CoLRev

Please cite the project as follows:

Wagner, G. and Prester, J. (2024) CoLRev - An open-source environment for Collaborative Literature Reviews. Available at https://github.com/CoLRev-Environment/colrev. doi:10.5281/zenodo.11668338