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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.  Upcoming ESMIG Meetings

    Posted Mar 06, 2024 03:28 PM

    Hello ESMIG Members,

    The minutes and slides from the February 20th, 2024 ESMIG meeting are now available in the ESMIG community page library.

    Our March Meeting will be held on Tuesday March 12, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST. (Zoom link will be forthcoming).  We hope to find some volunteers who are familiar with using OPENALEX for evidence synthesis or are willing to demonstrate the use of this free and open catalog of global research to the group. Please contact Aimee Jenkins aimees@pitt.edu if interested.  If we do not get any volunteers by Friday March 8th - the March meeting will be cancelled.

    Here is an update on OpenAlex I received today:

    There is a new version of the OpenAlex webapp, with lots of great new features:

    • save searches and set alerts
    • filter by topics, subfields, fields, and domains
    • see more data pages on pages for works, authors, etc
    • view pages for SDGs, work types, countries, and more
    • create filters faster with better search bar 

    Watch the video walkthrough here, or check it out now at https://openalex.org!

    Also check out this evaluation of OpenAlex published by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health Downloadable as PDF in Norwegian but does have a summary in English https://www.fhi.no/en/publ/2023/Evaluation-of-OpenAlex/

    In our April Meeting our Co Convener, Amy Riegelman, will be leading a discussion on the following article:

     Garritty, C., Gartlehner, G., Nussbaumer-Streit, B., King, V. J., Hamel, C., Kamel, C., ... & Stevens, A. (2021). Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group offers evidence-informed guidance to conduct rapid reviews. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 130, 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.10.007

    Thank you,

    Your Co-Conveners

    Aimee Sgourakis Jenkins

    Lead Librarian for Bibliometric and Evidence Synthesis Services

    Liaison Librarian for Sociology, Psychology, and Geology and Environmental Sciences

    405 Hillman Library| University of Pittsburgh

    E: aimees@pitt.edu

    Amy Riegelman (she, her, hers)

    Social Sciences & Evidence Synthesis Librarian

    University of Minnesota

    Co-recipient of the 2022 Minnesota Academic Innovator Award

    http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4127-5222



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    Aimee Jenkins
    Librarian
    University of Pittsburgh
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