Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research

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    Tools, Trends and Best Practices for Modern Researchers: LaTeX for Beginners Workshop
    (ACRL, 2021) Over, Sarah
    The use of LaTeX has expanded outside of STEM fields as more disciplines become involved with large statistical analyses and big data. Due to this, many researchers have become interested in utilizing LaTeX to produce clean, professional documents for many journals and graduate theses. Unfortu- nately, learning LaTeX can be a hurdle since in practice this software is a cross between coding and writing. Workshops can help bridge this gap to teach beginners how LaTeX works, get them started on their first journal article, and provide resources for help as they learn.
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    Systematic Review Task Force Report
    (2020-01) Coalter, Jodi; Gammons, Rachel; Over, Sarah; Ritchie, Stephanie; Tchangalova, Nedelina
    In today’s busy research university library, many advanced level researchers need specialized research support. Literature review workshops have been very popular at the UMD Libraries in the last couple of years. Systematic reviews, originally relevant for research in medical research, are a type of literature review that is getting increasingly commonly used in all other sciences where data are collected and published in the literature. UMD Libraries evaluated the feasibility of offering Systematic Review services to the UMD community and beyond. In this report, short and long term recommendations are provided to enhance the service.
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    Working Across Disciplines and Library Units to Develop a Suite of Systematic Review Services for Researchers
    (Collaborative Librarianship, 2020-02-21) Tchangalova, Nedelina; Harrington, Eileen G.; Ritchie, Stephanie; Over, Sarah; Coalter, Jodi
    Since their inception in the health sciences field, systematic reviews have expanded into many other sub-ject disciplines. To address this growing need, subject librarians at the University of Maryland Libraries collaborated on a pilot program in three phases to introduce researchers to the process of conducting sys-tematic and scoping reviews. This article describes the design and development of a workshop series based on participant feedback. Assessment and evaluation techniques are shared to encourage further refinement of the systematic review service.
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    You choose, we deliver: Providing educational opportunities to researchers in STEM
    (2019-10-05) Tchangalova, Nedelina; Harrington, Eileen; Over, Sarah; Ritchie, Stephanie
    OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND: Subject librarians at the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries have experienced an increased demand for research support not only in the health and medical sciences but also from education, engineering, agriculture, library science, humanities, and social sciences. With the goal to provide sustainable support to graduate students and faculty who are writing scientific texts, we developed a suite of systematic review services. METHODS: To introduce researchers to the process of compiling the best evidence on a particular topic, we developed online materials with resources supporting the systematic review cycle. To justify the librarian's time and efforts, we provided a description of the three-tiered free service. In addition, we designed a face-to-face workshop series based on participants’ feedback. The pilot program was launched in three phases during the academic year of 2018-2019 under the UMD Libraries’ Research Commons Unit. RESULTS: A total of 18 workshops in two locations were offered, including a webinar to a group of 10 international researchers. The workshops were attended by 124 including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and librarians with 62% attendance from the registrants’ pool of 200. New relationships with faculty were established resulting in three co-authored peer-reviewed publications, four joint projects underway, and one co-authored grant proposal. We received eight requests for consultation following or instead of in-person workshops. Another 12 research teams requested research assistance or workshops recordings. CONCLUSIONS: The Systematic Review workshop series at UMD Libraries has been successful during the pilot phase. Benefits for librarians include increased expertise in conducting systematic reviews, familiarity with tools and techniques involved with it, creating new relationships with faculty and students, and co-authoring publications and grants. Designing online materials exposed this service to an international audience.
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    Researchers ask, librarians deliver: Meeting the needs of scholars through a suite of systematic review services for every subject discipline
    (2019-04-26) Tchangalova, Nedelina; Harrington, Eileen; Over, Sarah; Ritchie, Stephanie
    Scholarly communities are producing more articles every year due to the implementation of speedy review processes and innovative technologies for research dissemination. To quickly inform best practices and policies, systematic reviews started flourishing beyond the health and medical sciences. Researchers from other subject disciplines including education, engineering, agricultural, library, humanities and social sciences, explore ways to compile, analyze and evaluate in a systematic way the best evidence to inform future practices. To address this growing need, University of Maryland Libraries launched a pilot program in two phases under the Research Commons Unit to introduce researchers to the process of conducting systematic and scoping reviews. The primary focus of this presentation will include the development of workshop series designed based on the registrants’ feedback. Future plans for assessment and evaluation will be shared as well.