Presented by Alison Bethel this SR Conversation looks at the benefit of reflecting on search methods during and at the end of an evidence synthesis project. Alison will share her experience with completing search summary tables and search evaluations and provide examples of when they have been used in evidence synthesis projects.
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Lancaster University presents its first Systematic Review Conversations of 2025 with Riding the Wave: Collaborating on Systematic Review Support in Healthcare and Beyond
Presented by Erin Bloxsidge, Kathryn Devine and Giada Zanella this conversation will focus on the Self-Taught SRs Community of Practice (CoP) addressing the gap in formal training for librarians involved in systematic reviews.
Delegates will learn how the CoP’s founders defined and promoted this new group. They will see how they use an online platform to welcome new members, encourage discussions, and keep conversations organised in themes. Examples of questions and answers will be highlighted. They will also learn how feedback is being sought and how the community is evolving.
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Team Ireland had a very successful sojourn in sunny Seville last week for the EAHIL 2016 Conference. In total there were 6 of us there, so expect to hear some reports in HINT and other for a in the coming months.
As you can imagine, there were lots of really interesting presentations and poster – many soon to be uploaded onto the EAHIL conference website http://www.bvsspa.es/eahil2016/
I thought you might be interested in this blog post by Cambridge health librarian Isla Kuhn which came about in response to a presented paper on the quality of reporting of systematic reviews.
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing
It is well worth a read and there are useful links to all the standards for reporting SRs and search strategies – always handy to have on standby.
I also suggest reading her other blog posts – there are lots covering presentations from the latest EAHIL, all well worth reading.
Also, you may also be interested in (yet another!) Database of Systematic Reviews http://www.epistemonikos.org/
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of research evidence and knowledge translation products. Epistemonikos was developed and is maintained by systematically searching electronic databases and other sources for relevant systematic reviews and broad syntheses of reviews.
The aim of Epistemonikos is to provide rapid access to systematic reviews in health. You can read an interesting paper presented by Hilde Stromme comparing Epistemonikos to the Cochrane Library as soon as the papers are uploaded.
Louise Farragher
