A New Partnership: An Institutional Repository and a Systematic Review Search Deposit Service
Description
In fall 2020, Temple University Libraries launched the university’s first institutional repository, TUScholarShare, as a place to collect, manage, and provide public access to Temple’s research, data, and teaching outputs. Shortly thereafter, this initiative prompted a collaborative effort of the Libraries Research Data Services and Systematic Review Search Service to deposit search strategies and citation results as data in TUScholarShare. With these deposits, we hope to make systematic reviews more open and reproducible by making the search strategies and results discoverable to the research community at Temple University and beyond. We created specialized documentation for these deposits to streamline the process and handle the unique nature of these deposits. The new service was advertised on the systematic review service library guide and to launch the service we approached recent users of the systematic review service to see if they would agree to deposit their materials. Most researchers were happy to learn about the service and we now have it as a standard question on our protocol form for anyone who submits a request for our systematic review search service. Over the course of multiple deposits we refined our documentation and materials for these deposits to simplify the process for both the data curation team and the systematic review team. The partnership between the IR and the systematic review service has proven to be successful since its initial launch with 12 deposits and many more coming.
A New Partnership: An Institutional Repository and a Systematic Review Search Deposit Service
In fall 2020, Temple University Libraries launched the university’s first institutional repository, TUScholarShare, as a place to collect, manage, and provide public access to Temple’s research, data, and teaching outputs. Shortly thereafter, this initiative prompted a collaborative effort of the Libraries Research Data Services and Systematic Review Search Service to deposit search strategies and citation results as data in TUScholarShare. With these deposits, we hope to make systematic reviews more open and reproducible by making the search strategies and results discoverable to the research community at Temple University and beyond. We created specialized documentation for these deposits to streamline the process and handle the unique nature of these deposits. The new service was advertised on the systematic review service library guide and to launch the service we approached recent users of the systematic review service to see if they would agree to deposit their materials. Most researchers were happy to learn about the service and we now have it as a standard question on our protocol form for anyone who submits a request for our systematic review search service. Over the course of multiple deposits we refined our documentation and materials for these deposits to simplify the process for both the data curation team and the systematic review team. The partnership between the IR and the systematic review service has proven to be successful since its initial launch with 12 deposits and many more coming.