Evidence Synthesis Methods Interest Group

In case you missed it live, the recording of the Finding Grey Literature: Weathering the Storm of Disappearing Data webinar organized by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Social Work Committee is now available on the ACRL YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/_DO9z7mTj0s

Notable resources shared by panelists during the webinar include:

• DellaVigna, S. and Linos, E. (2022), RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence From Two Nudge Units. Econometrica, 90: 81-116. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA18709

• AACODS checklist (for evaluating grey literature; developed by Jess Tyndall, Finders University): https://fac.flinders.edu.au/dspace/api/core/bitstreams/e94a96eb-0334-4300-8880-c836d4d9a676/content

• Northern Light Sciences Conference Abstracts Database Guide: https://ospguides.ovid.com/OSPguides/dscvdb.htm

Resources shared by attendees during the webinar include:

• Preprint repository search syntax table: https://lib.uvic.ca/preprintsearchsyntax

• Policy Commons: https://policycommons.net/modules/open/

• Maddi, A., Maisonobe, M., & Zeghmouri, C. B. (2024). Geographical and Disciplinary Coverage of Open Access Journals: OpenAlex, Scopus and WoS. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/8wa4q

• Digital Commons Network: https://network.bepress.com/

• Data Rescue Project: https://www.datarescueproject.org/

• Immediate free access to research: The scholarly response to COVID-19: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/radical-access/scholarly-covid19

• Data Lumos: https://archive.icpsr.umich.edu/datalumos/home

• Important Notice: US Government Data: https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=1441381&p=10788283

• Gardner, S. & Royster, P. (2023). "Gray Literature in the Institutional Repository: Partnership Between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries and Two Textile Societies," in Rethinking Institutional Repositories Innovations in Management, Collections, and Inclusion, ed. J. Cromwell. ALA/ACRL, 2023. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/442/

• RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/rfk-jr-nih-scientists-medical-journals-jama-lancet-nejm-00371349

• Announcement of German anticipated alternative to PubMed: https://bsky.app/profile/hildabast.bsky.social/post/3lojxh4iw5c2v

• Bluesky's Paper Skygest: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uaadt6f5bbda6cycbmatcm3z/feed/preprintdigest

Best,

ACRL EBSS Social Work Committee