Evidence Synthesis Methods Interest Group

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Charge: To promote and develop competencies around evidence synthesis including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, and other related methods of research synthesis, through activities such as: Facilitating discussion and peer-support; Creating and managing a resource page; Encouraging programming and publications around systematic reviews through ACRL.
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  • 1.  ChatGPT and evidence synthesis methods

    Posted Feb 03, 2023 10:20 AM
    Hi all. I am not experienced with this. But does anyone have experience with, or comments on using ChatGPT and evidence synthesis methods for reviews ?

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    Paul Fehrmann
    Reference & Instruction Librarian - Retired
    Kent State University Libraries - Retired
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  • 2.  RE: ChatGPT and evidence synthesis methods

    Posted Feb 03, 2023 11:27 AM
    Hi Paul,

    This upcoming webinar might be of interest to you: https://picoportal.org/2023/01/29/chatgpt/

    Cheers,
    Zahra

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    Zahra Premji
    Health Research Librarian
    University of Victoria Libraries
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  • 3.  RE: ChatGPT and evidence synthesis methods

    Posted Feb 07, 2023 09:48 AM
    I would recommend looking at the GPT3-based tool Ellicit (https://elicit.org) if you are interested in the use of "AI" tools in systematic reviews. It's specifically being designed for scholarly use (unlike ChatGPT) and won't make things up (also unlike ChatGPT.)

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    Rebecca Hedreen
    Head of Research & Instruction, Life Sciences & Distance Learning Librarian
    Southern Connecticut State University
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  • 4.  RE: ChatGPT and evidence synthesis methods

    Posted Feb 08, 2023 07:15 AM
    Hi Rebecca !  Thanks for the note.  I will be looking at Elicit to kick the tires etc �� 

    Again, thanks !  

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    Paul Fehrmann
    Research and Instruction Services Librarian - retired August, 2021
    Kent State University Libraries



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  • 5.  RE: ChatGPT and evidence synthesis methods

    Posted Feb 08, 2023 03:16 PM
    Paul,  thanks for posting your question. I  tested out Elicit.org a little.  I'm impressed by how Elicit writes a summary of the top four results and precents key excerpts from citing articles about the strength of the study's findings. Most of my test searches don't find very recent results. This could be that I don't understand how to search it well or they have to improve this.  I think Elicit searches the Sematic Scholar database which includes research research.  Elicit.org is still in Beta. It will not be long before it writes a summary of scores of articles and yields better top search results. Hope they keep it free when this happens. 

    If you have time, please let us know what you think after kicking the tires.   -Scott 


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    Scott Hertzberg
    Librarian
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  • 6.  RE: ChatGPT and evidence synthesis methods

    Posted Feb 08, 2023 03:50 PM
    Edited by Zahra Premji Feb 08, 2023 03:50 PM

    I have found the task called "suggest search terms" on Elicit to be relatively decent at adding to my synonym list. I've started incorporating that into exploratory work for all of my searches.



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    Zahra Premji
    Health Research Librarian
    University of Victoria Libraries
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