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What's new? Send your news to ANSS Currents!

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Aug 21, 2024 12:03 PM
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Have you recently changed jobs? Gotten promoted? Published an article or book chapter? Received an award? Your ANSS colleagues would love to hear about it! Send your news to Currents editor Sarah Dahlen (sdahlen@csumb.edu) by August 31 for inclusion in our Fall 2024 issue. ------------------------------ ...

ANSS Currents Fall 2024 Call for Materials

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Aug 07, 2024 01:20 PM
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Hello ANSS members! It's time to send us your materials for the Fall 2024 issue of ANSS Currents: ANSS Committee, Discussion Group, and liaison materials: reports, announcements, member profile interviews, etc. (Typically the outgoing chair/convener submits the report, as the incoming chair/convener ...

What's new with you?

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Mar 26, 2024 04:35 PM
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Hi ANSS members! Have you published an article or book chapter recently? Presented at a conference? Received an award or promotion? Started in a new position? Let us acknowledge you! ANSS wants to include your professional news in our Currents newsletter. Please send your news item to Sarah Dahlen ...

Formatting problem

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Mar 05, 2024 04:15 PM
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I'm having a formatting problem when I copy search strings from Google Sheets and paste them into databases. I'm not sure if anyone else has this same workflow, so it may not have come up for you. This is my typical searching workflow, and I've never had a problem with it before this year. Here's ...

ANSS Currents Spring 2024 Call for Materials

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Feb 28, 2024 06:17 PM
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Hello ANSS members! It's time to send us your materials for the Spring 2024 issue of ANSS Currents. Committee chairs, discussion group leaders, and liaisons: Please send your reports! Members: Do you have professional news, including publications, presentations, honors, job changes, or current ...

AAA Liaison Report

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Feb 08, 2024 02:39 PM
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As the liaison to the American Anthropological Association (AAA), I was able to attend their most recent conference in Toronto in November. I am posting my report here for anyone who is interested. Report from the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) November ...

Ideas for assessing customer service at circulation desk

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Oct 12, 2023 05:18 PM
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We would like to evaluate customer service at our circulation desk. Ideally, I'd like to have one of those machines where users press a button after their service interaction (green smiley face, yellow neutral face, red frowning face), but I suspect that they are out of our price range. Does anyone ...

RE: Databases that work for systematic reviews

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Sep 12, 2023 11:29 AM
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To follow up on this thread, for anyone who's interested: I emailed Michael Gusenbauer, one of the authors of the article, and he directed me to a tool they've created that allows you to search for databases with certain features. Searchsmart.org is free to use, kept up to date, and allows you to search ...

RE: Databases that work for systematic reviews

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Sep 06, 2023 06:41 PM
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Thanks for sharing, Amy! That wasn't the one I was thinking of, but I love it---super useful. ------------------------------ Sarah Dahlen Reference and Instruction Librarian California State University, Monterey Bay She/Her/Hers ------------------------------

RE: Databases that work for systematic reviews

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Sep 06, 2023 11:14 AM
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That is the one I had in mind---thanks, Angie! Re-reading that article (citation below) leads me to other questions. According to their evaluation, both JSTOR and Wiley have controlled vocabulary (table 4). Is that true? Where is it hiding? I can't find it anywhere. Has anyone used either of those ...

Databases that work for systematic reviews

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Sep 05, 2023 02:30 PM
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Hi everyone, I remember reading an article that reviewed different databases regarding whether they would work for conducting a systematic review. It included a table outlining characteristics of different databases. Now I can't find it---does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thanks, ...

What's your news?

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Aug 23, 2023 02:04 PM
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Hi ANSS members! Have you published an article or book chapter recently? Presented at a conference? Received an award or promotion? Started in a new position? Let us acknowledge you! ANSS wants to include your professional news in our Currents newsletter. Please send your news item to Sarah ...

ANSS Currents Fall 2023 Call for Materials

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Aug 10, 2023 12:20 PM
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Hello ANSS members! It's time to send us your materials for the Fall 2023 issue of ANSS Currents: ANSS Committee, Discussion Group, and liaison materials: reports, announcements, member profile interviews, etc. Professional news, including publications, presentations, honors, ...

Spring 2023 issue of ANSS Currents now available on ANSSWeb!

Posted By Sarah Dahlen May 24, 2023 11:40 AM
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In case you missed it: The Spring 2023 issue of ANSS Currents is now available on our website! This issue includes a message from ANSS Chair Elizabeth Fox, information about the ANSS program at ALA Annual, and reports from committees and discussion groups. There are also reviews of several resources ...

ANSS Currents Spring 2023 Call for Materials

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Mar 08, 2023 06:47 PM
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Hello ANSS members! It's time to send us your materials for the Spring 2023 issue of ANSS Currents: ANSS Committee and Discussion Group materials: reports, announcements, member profile interviews, etc. Professional news, including publications, presentations, honors, job changes, ...

RE: Do Not Miss This Wonderful ANSS Publishing Opportunity - We Are Looking for Authors

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Feb 24, 2023 11:41 AM
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If anyone is interested in writing a review article but can't think of a topic, I'd like to suggest considering a review of elicit.org and how well it works (or doesn't work) for finding sources in the social sciences. Elicit is an interesting new AI tool that students are sure to hear about, and I think ...

ANSS Currents Fall 2022 Call for Materials

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Aug 12, 2022 02:50 PM
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Hello ANSS members! It's time to send us your materials for the Fall 2022 issue of ANSS Currents: ALA Annual Committee and Discussion Group materials: reports, member profile interviews, resource reviews, etc. Professional news, including publications, presentations, honors, job changes, ...

Spring 2022 issue of ANSS Currents now available on ANSSWeb!

Posted By Sarah Dahlen May 25, 2022 03:03 PM
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Hello ANSS members! I'm pleased to report that the Spring 2022 issue of Currents (Vol. 37, No. 1) is now available on ANSSWeb. This issue contains a message from our chair, Triveni Kuchi, along with information about ANSS meetings during ALA Annual. You can learn what our committees and discussion ...

Special Currents content: 50th anniversary of ANSS and remembering JoAnn Jacoby

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Mar 21, 2022 06:53 PM
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Dear ANSS members, As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of ANSS, I would love to include your memories of ANSS over the years in the upcoming issue of Currents. Please share photos of ANSS gatherings, memories of events, or thoughts about what ANSS has meant to you. These could be anything from a ...

Rookie question about searching for best practices

Posted By Sarah Dahlen Mar 15, 2022 01:37 PM
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Hi all, If I'm helping someone with a research question that's interested in identifying best practices rather than evaluating a particular intervention, how would I represent that in my main concepts that I'm searching for? Here's the research question: What are the best practices for diagnosing ...