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.  Pubmed Search Acting Weird

    Posted May 06, 2022 04:02 PM
    Hello, 

    I am working on a SR and I am having issues with PubMed. I was trying to figure out if anyone else is having this same problem or if it's just a user error. 
    I am doing a large title/abstract search in PubMed but when I go to copy and paste my terms into the advance search, it doesn't add the title/abstract tag behind each term. For example, if I was searching:

    "diet quality" OR "water intake*" OR "Water Consumption" OR "plain water intake" OR "safe water consumption" OR "water alternatives" OR "water intake recommendations" OR "water recommendations" OR nutrition OR "nutrition recommendation*" OR "health outcomes" OR "Sugar-sweetened beverage*" OR "Sugar Sweetened Beverage" OR "sugar beverage*" OR "sugar-sweetened drinks" OR "soft drink" OR "sugar-sweetened soda*" OR "sugar sweetened soda*" OR "sugar-sweetened beverage intake" OR beverage OR "fruit juice" OR "sugary drink*" OR "artificially sweetened beverages" OR "ssb intake" OR "other sweetened drinks" 

    it will only add the [title/abstract] brackets to a few of the terms and then remove some of my ORs. It makes it very frustrating to go back and have to add the tag to every word and add in my ORs. 

    Is this happening to anyone else? I've tried clearing the cache and my history and changing browsers.

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    Randa Morgan
    Event and Programming Librarian
    Louisiana State University
    She/Her/Hers
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  • 2.  RE: Pubmed Search Acting Weird

    Posted May 09, 2022 08:50 AM
    Hi Randa,
    I just tried your search string and it looks like it added the tags to everything. Hopefully it was a Friday afternoon problem and not a your computer problem!