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Item From Search Request to Publication: Creating a Workflow to Highlight the Efforts of a Systematic Searching Service(2024-06-25) Vetter, Cecelia J.; Craven, Hannah J.; Stumpff, Julia C.Three librarians at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library (RLML) identified areas for improvement in a high-demand systematic searching service. The service lacked a way to track in-process searches, had a decentralized process for assigning projects, and did not capture individual workloads or the library’s search request backlog. After consulting with staff from other libraries, the librarians at RLML collaborated to develop a new workflow using a tool available through the university's Microsoft subscription. They created internal procedures to accompany the tool, conducted internal beta testing, and customized the tool to suit the needs of the service. To introduce the new workflow, the librarians engaged departmental stakeholders to show how the system could help quantify the effort of the evidence synthesis service and facilitate a more equitable distribution of workloads. They also conducted hands-on training sessions for librarians. The new workflow established a centralized waitlist for search requests used by all librarians and began tracking the stages and timing of systematic search projects. To ensure ongoing utilization of the new workflow, the library incorporated a standing agenda item in bi-monthly meetings to review the status of waitlisted search requests and encourage librarians to update project information. With the successful implementation of the new workflow, the library now effectively tracks in-progress evidence synthesis projects, manages a centralized systematic search request waitlist, and better highlights the efforts of the systematic searching service. Related recording: https://youtu.be/56-N_xtRWik?si=BMLjbIKeVsTqluod&t=961Item Get Credit for Your Searches: Our Experience Using searchRxiv(2024-06-24) Hinrichs, Rachel J.; Craven, Hannah J.; Stumpff, Julia C.Librarians build detailed search strategies for evidence syntheses enabling the comprehensive retrieval of studies while taking care that no relevant studies are missed. However, this work may be wasted or lost if the review does not reach publication or if the search strategies are not included with the publication. Further, search strategies that are stored in article appendices may not be preserved in the long-term. To address these problems, in 2022 we started depositing search strategies that we developed for evidence syntheses to a new repository called searchRxiv (pronounced “search archive”). SeachRxiv is an open repository established by CABI Digital Library to support information professionals in reporting, sharing, re-using and preserving their search strategies. In this presentation, we will share our experience with searchRxiv, including the advantages and challenges of sharing search strategies as individual research products separate from reviews. For each challenge, we will share our lessons learned and solutions developed, including a template for uploading multiple searches at a time and an approach to adding search strategies to CVs and digital scholarly profiles. We will also share pros and cons to using searchRxiv as opposed to an institutional repository. Despite challenges we have encountered, since 2022 we have been able to openly share 59 search strategies from 13 evidence syntheses using searchRxiv. Overall, we find searchRxiv to be a scalable approach for highlighting the unique contributions of librarians to evidence syntheses beyond publications, and for enabling re-use and reproducibility of our searches. Related recording: https://youtu.be/ir8vzD_0vYM?si=FYW_9W6QVdqJ_ZH3&t=1127Item Using searchRxiv for depositing evidence synthesis searches(2024-11-21) Craven, Hannah J.; Hinrichs, Rachel J.; Stumpff, Julia C.Librarians build detailed search strategies for evidence syntheses enabling the comprehensive retrieval of studies while taking care that no relevant studies are missed. However, this work may be wasted or lost if the review does not reach publication or if the search strategies are not included with the publication. Further, search strategies that are stored in article appendices may not be preserved in the long-term. To address these problems, we started depositing our evidence syntheses search strategies that we developed to a repository called searchRxiv (pronounced “search archive”); an open repository established by CABI Digital Library to support information professionals in reporting, sharing, re-using and preserving their searches. In this presentation, we will share our experience with searchRxiv, including the advantages and challenges of sharing search strategies as individual research products separate from reviews. For each challenge, we will share our lessons learned and solutions developed. We will also share pros and cons to using searchRxiv as opposed to a traditional institutional repository. Since 2022, we have been able to openly share 59 search strategies from 13 evidence syntheses using searchRxiv. Overall, we find searchRxiv to be a scalable approach for highlighting the unique contributions of librarians to evidence syntheses beyond publications, and for enabling re-use and reproducibility of our searches.