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.  February Journal Club

    Posted Jan 24, 2022 10:40 AM
    Hello everyone and happy belated new year!

    Please join us for our next ESMIG Journal Club on Tuesday, February 8th at 1pm ET. We'll be discussing the following journal article, with discussion led by Zahra Premji:

    Khalil, H., Peters, M. D., Tricco, A. C., Pollock, D., Alexander, L., McInerney, P., ... & Munn, Z. (2021). Conducting high quality scoping reviews-challenges and solutions. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 130, 156-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.10.009

    If you can't access it through your library's subscriptions, please let me know and I can send you a copy.
     
    I will also do a brief tool demo on the new graphical user interface of litsearchr, a tool based on R to help with term harvesting.

    Join the Zoom meeting:

    Meeting ID: 924 4843 2928
    Passcode: 551094

    We could definitely use some more volunteers to lead discussions, suggest papers and demo tools and platforms!  Please sign up here!

    Best,

    Sarah


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    Sarah Young
    Library Liaison, Heinz College | Information Systems
    Institute for Politics & Strategy | Statistics & Data Science
    Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
    she/her/hers | (412) 268-7384
    sarahy@andrew.cmu.edu
     



  • 2.  RE: February Journal Club

    Posted Feb 07, 2022 09:32 AM
    Dear all,

    Just a reminder about Journal Club tomorrow, February 8th at 1pm ET. We'll be discussing the following journal article, with discussion led by Zahra Premji:

    Khalil, H., Peters, M. D., Tricco, A. C., Pollock, D., Alexander, L., McInerney, P., ... & Munn, Z. (2021). Conducting high quality scoping reviews-challenges and solutions. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 130, 156-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.10.009
    If you can't access it through your library's subscriptions, please let me know and I can send you a copy.
     
    I will also do a brief tool demo on the new graphical user interface of litsearchr, a tool based on R to help with term harvesting.

    Join the Zoom meeting:

    Meeting ID: 924 4843 2928
    Passcode: 551094
    We could definitely use some more volunteers to lead discussions, suggest papers and demo tools and platforms!  Please sign up here!

    See you then!

    Sarah

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    Sarah Young
    Liaison Librarian
    Carnegie Mellon University
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  • 3.  RE: February Journal Club

    Posted Feb 08, 2022 02:17 PM
    Hi again all.  I sent a note as a follow up to the Journal club discussion.  But I *also wanted to send this note.....to say that I *really appreciated Sarah's *demonstration and discussion of the listsearchr tool as a method of developing terms for searches that we run.  *Very cool !  Thanks Sarah....and thanks to all for group discussion !

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    Paul Fehrmann
    Reference & Instruction Librarian - Retired
    Kent State University Libraries - Retired
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  • 4.  RE: February Journal Club

    Posted Feb 11, 2022 07:53 AM
    How interesting Paul!  Thanks so much for sending along these articles. I have colleagues supporting Philosophy that have been interested in how systematic reviews could be applied there. I will certainly pass these along. Looking forward to reading them myself!

    Sarah



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  • 5.  RE: February Journal Club

    Posted Feb 11, 2022 08:07 AM
    Happy to do it Paul!  I'll be curious to hear if others give this a try and what they find! It was interesting to discover that bug as well, which I will pass along to Eliza :-) 

    Have a great weekend everyone!

    Sarah



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