Presentation Type
Presentation
Date
2023-11-16
Description
Knowledge synthesis research is central to evidence-based medicine. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses literature search extension (PRISMA-S) outlines full reporting of the search strategy component including uploading documentation of all search strategies into a data repository to increase accessibility, transparency, and reproducibility. In response to the PRISMA-S recommendations, Canadian universities and health care institutions have been increasingly offering local services for librarians to support depositing and sharing search strategies in a digital data repository on the Borealis platform. Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, is a bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository which supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian research data. We argue that knowledge synthesis searches are data, and therefore, deserve a place in data repositories. Three case studies of knowledge synthesis repositories from three institutions will be presented: McGill University, Université de Montréal teaching hospitals, and the Health Sciences Information Consortium (HSIC) which includes the University of Toronto and affiliated hospitals. This talk will discuss the reasons for choosing a data repository, decisions made, challenges encountered, and lessons learned.
Keywords
Institutional repository; Knowledge synthesis research
Open Access
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Repository Citation
Cunningham, Heather; Calleja, Sabine; Martyniuk, Julia; Ziegler, Daniela; Pincivy, Alix; Boruff, Jill; and Rod, Alisa, "Knowledge Syntheses Search Strategy Repositories: Canadian Case Studies" (2023). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL). 10.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2023/program/10
Knowledge Syntheses Search Strategy Repositories: Canadian Case Studies
Knowledge synthesis research is central to evidence-based medicine. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses literature search extension (PRISMA-S) outlines full reporting of the search strategy component including uploading documentation of all search strategies into a data repository to increase accessibility, transparency, and reproducibility. In response to the PRISMA-S recommendations, Canadian universities and health care institutions have been increasingly offering local services for librarians to support depositing and sharing search strategies in a digital data repository on the Borealis platform. Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, is a bilingual, multidisciplinary, secure, Canadian research data repository which supports open discovery, management, sharing, and preservation of Canadian research data. We argue that knowledge synthesis searches are data, and therefore, deserve a place in data repositories. Three case studies of knowledge synthesis repositories from three institutions will be presented: McGill University, Université de Montréal teaching hospitals, and the Health Sciences Information Consortium (HSIC) which includes the University of Toronto and affiliated hospitals. This talk will discuss the reasons for choosing a data repository, decisions made, challenges encountered, and lessons learned.