Description:
Documenting and sharing search strategies and archiving search-related data seems like it should be easy, especially with guidance from PRISMA-S and other reporting guidelines. But, even the bare minimum needed to document and archive search strategies and search-related data is complex and nuanced.
Melissa Rethlefsen, a reporting guideline author, and Mark MacEachern, an experienced searcher, both of whom have extensively studied search reporting and reproducibility, will show you how to balance what is ideal with what is practical and reasonable.
You’ll learn best practices for documenting and archiving search strategies and search-related data to ensure search and review reproducibility, and you’ll get an insider’s view on the debates and challenges surrounding these best practices.
The session begins with a refresher on key aspects of PRISMA-S related to optimal search strategy reporting and guidance on data sharing and moves on to more challenging topics and skills, including capturing searches as entered versus as translated, sharing in repositories versus journal supplemental files or both, creating README files and providing contextualization and meaning for archived search strategies and data, and copyright challenges for sharing RIS files.
Melissa and Mark will focus on practices designed to help you avoid common issues leading to search irreproducibility. Using polls, real-world examples, interactive skills-building, lecture, and discussion, they will help you make systematic review searches and search data as findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable as possible for researchers. You’ll learn in-depth strategies for reporting and sharing searches and search-related data and have an opportunity to think through and discuss challenging reporting and archiving-related issues.
This course is required for Level II of the Systematic Review Services Specialization.
Find more information on this course here.
To Register, email Grace Di Virgilio with "Register Defining" in the Subject line.
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