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I think one of the challenges with questions like these is helping the faculty member understand that it's not just a question of copyright, but also the legally binding contracts the university signed with the vendor. Scott Scott MarsalisSocial Work Librarian &Director, Sciences, Agriculture & Engineering ...

Hi Anna - at the U. of Minnesota we predominantly use Covidence and really like it, and we've used it for all the disciplines you mention. The one drawback other than cost, IMO, is the lack of the ability to randomly assign records to pairs of reviewers, or to generate a random sample of records for ...

Crossposting with permission - ICYMI/FYI --Scott Marsalis Jan 29, 2025 10:57 AMAshlynn Kogut Dear EBSS colleagues, I'm excited to announce the EBSS Executive Committee recently created the EBSS Evidence Synthesis Committee! The committee's charge is to provide a forum for librarians to cultivate expertise ...

Sharing disturbing news about evidence synthesis and evidence based practice in Canada. /Scott Some of you may have heard about the large layoffs of librarians and research staff (half their staff) at Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). These librarians are experts in evidence ...

Does anyone have capacity to peer review an APA PsycInfo search strategy on the Ovid platform? Scott Scott MarsalisSocial Sciences Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries My pronouns are he/him I acknowledge that the University of Minnesota is located on the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary ...

BMC Systematic Reviews publishes protocols, and I find some social work related protocols in BMJ Open. A title search on (protocol and review) in APA PsycInfo mainly pulls up clinical journals, including PLOS One and JBI Evidence Synthesis. Scott Scott MarsalisSocial Sciences Librarian, University ...

I've been lucky to work with some really fantastic GA. One has become the meta-analyst on several projects, and several have served as the defacto PI in keeping projects on task and on focus. Often they ask the critical questions during conceptualizing stages, whereas the faculty researchers can tend ...