Category: Research
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Lessons Learned from My First Living Systematic Review
My team is diving into the world of living systematic reviews (LSR) as part of our efforts to synthesize COVID-19 evidence, and our first LSR was just published in Annals of Internal Medicine: Risks and Impact of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin-Receptor Blockers on SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Adults https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1515 I was responsible for the initial…
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New Collaborations Lead to an MLA Connect Article
I had a few weeks ago, I had half a blog post written about the rise in COVID-19 reviews calling themselves “systematic reviews” and whether that was appropriate given the rapid development of literature in this area. While I was gathering my thoughts, a listserv email came into my inbox with a request from a…
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PubMed vs. Ovid: Which is better for searching MEDLINE?
I’m still new to the world of systematic review searching, so I’ve been doing a lot of self-directed learning lately to learn all the ins and outs of this area of librarianship. I’ve recently been exploring the question of whether there is a noticeable difference between running rapid review/systematic review searches in PubMed MEDLINE versus…
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New Tool Discovery: HubMed Citation Finder
Earlier this week, I found myself in a bit of a sticky situation. I had run a search in Ovid MEDLINE and needed to export the results to EndNote, but I wasn’t able to do it right away. So I used the “Email” function in Ovid to send the results to myself so I could…
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RDM for Librarians, Week 5
This has been a big week for me in this course. Not only did I complete the module’s work before I left the office on Friday for the first time, I also took some major steps in my Capstone Project. The end result of the course is the Capstone Project – some kind of first…
Kathryn Vela 