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New paper out:
Rethlefsen et al (including me!) (2025). Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ evidence-based medicine, bmjebm-2024-113527. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113527
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Wow, PROSPERO look very different and it sounds like it is very different.
This is a great idea IMO
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Hi #medlibs, book recommendation:
Disposable: America's contempt for the underclass
Here's an excerpt - watch out, it is heartbreaking as well as insightful
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sarah-jones-disposable-book-excerpt-right-covid-vaccines.html
#CollectionDevelopment #colldev -
I can't access the US Department of Labor CLEAR database now
https://clear.dol.gov/
Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research
Very good database with added-value info about the strength of the evidence for different job-training interventions
#librarians #BusinessLibrarians #JobTraining #medlibs #govdocs -
I can't access the US Department of Labor CLEAR database now
https://clear.dol.gov/
Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research
Very good database with added-value info about the strength of the evidence for different job-training interventions
#librarians #BusinessLibrarians #JobTraining #medlibs #govdocs -
I can't access the US Department of Labor CLEAR database now
https://clear.dol.gov/
Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research
Very good database with added-value info about the strength of the evidence for different job-training interventions
#librarians #BusinessLibrarians #JobTraining #medlibs #govdocs -
I can't access the US Department of Labor CLEAR database now
https://clear.dol.gov/
Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research
Very good database with added-value info about the strength of the evidence for different job-training interventions
#librarians #BusinessLibrarians #JobTraining #medlibs #govdocs -
The first gen AI study that I really want to read (maybe even do):
1 recruit participants WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS of experience in evidence synthesis and searching
2 show them chatbot output for prompts like "pretend you're a medical librarian and create a SR search strategy to use in PubMed for my research question," using whatever the state of the art guidelines are for "prompt engineering"
3A ask the participants to evaluate the chatbot output -
For 1000 *protocols* of *living* systematic reviews, how many reviews get published, and how many continue to be updated on the original schedule? Anyone have an estimate?
#medlibs #EvidenceSynthesis -
Just learned about the Result Assessment Tool (RAT)
Is anyone using this for #GreyLit in #EvidenceSynthesis #systematicreviews ?
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@chartgerink
#medlibs @medlibs scroll up and read the linked paper - we should be more aware of both the data sources/research method and of the issues of ghostwriting and, IDK how to call it - like astroturfinganipulates the public debate, except the scholarly debate -
Sign a letter of support for the Dartmouth College Library Workers Union
#DartmouthCollege #LibraryLabor #LibaryUnions #LibraryWorkers #MedLibs
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In June I'm doing a free webinar: "Information retrieval for evidence synthesis: How researchers in limited-resource environments can do comprehensive searches"
Please sign up, and tell your #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview friends!
#medlibs #libraries #OpenAccess #LMIC #ResearchCapacity -
In June I'm doing a free webinar: "Information retrieval for evidence synthesis: How researchers in limited-resource environments can do comprehensive searches"
Please sign up, and tell your #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview friends!
#medlibs #libraries #OpenAccess #LMIC #ResearchCapacity -
In June I'm doing a free webinar: "Information retrieval for evidence synthesis: How researchers in limited-resource environments can do comprehensive searches"
Please sign up, and tell your #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview friends!
#medlibs #libraries #OpenAccess #LMIC #ResearchCapacity -
In June I'm doing a free webinar: "Information retrieval for evidence synthesis: How researchers in limited-resource environments can do comprehensive searches"
Please sign up, and tell your #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview friends!
#medlibs #libraries #OpenAccess #LMIC #ResearchCapacity -
In June I'm doing a free webinar: "Information retrieval for evidence synthesis: How researchers in limited-resource environments can do comprehensive searches"
Please sign up, and tell your #EvidenceSynthesis / #SystematicReview friends!
#medlibs #libraries #OpenAccess #LMIC #ResearchCapacity -
This Is Just To Say
by @msjennmoI have searched
for librarians
as coauthors on
systematic reviewshoping for
searches to adapt
and cite
for myselfForgive me
I won't cite
your review without
a librarian coauthor
so rigorous
and so transparent#ThisIsJustToSay #WilliamCarlosWilliams #poetry @medlibs #medlibs
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Serious question: why would someone *want* to do an #EvidenceSynthesis project - #ScopingReview, #SystematicReview, #RapidReview, whatever - without writing a good protocol?
You're going to have to write up the methods *eventually* so why not do it now as you are starting, and get all the project management/clear communication benefits?
#medlibs @medlibs