🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

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A couple people have asked me about SR training opportunities. I keep a mostly up-to-date list here, let me know if there are others! carrieprice78.github.io/guides/syste...

My LinkedIn job search alert for "systematic reviews" is continuously and more frequently returning sales jobs that "systematically review" their area. One of us is Vizzini.

google 2012: here's how to make tacos google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin

Fun fact about proximity search in #PubMed : stop words (e.g., the, of, kg, with, etc.) are counted, not overlooked. That means if you are using proximity to find phrases like "cancer of the bladder" or similar, your proximity N will need to account for the stop words. #medlibs

Okay #librarians, what is your favorite hack for quickly answering references questions outside of your area of expertise? I'll go first: Google the topic and add "liguide" to the search. Pretty much guaranteed to have a well researched and open overview of a topic.

dear #medlibs, I am struggling to articulate, but, has anyone else noticed the glaring absence of humanism in the whether-to-use-AI clinical decision trees? I feel super weird being the only one in the room being like "What about cultural norms/expectations? Empathy?...No?"

@xanindigo.bsky.social‬ Can I be added to the Skybrary! feed please?

Public repositories like #OpenScienceFramework are a great option for long-term storage of supplemental materials for your #evidencesynthesis or #systematicreview project. You could upload - Final database searches, reported according to PRISMA-S(earching) - All PRISMA checklists - Results libraries

Me writing an email: "What a timely time for this!" Me, chuckles 🤭 Did I leave it in? Yes. Yes I did.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,211,754!

Excited for this, and for this author list! #medlibs and #canmedlibs

The first thing said to me when I walked into work today: "Hi! Welcome to Chaos!" *gestures around at 💦 and falling ceiling tiles* So how is your Wednesday going?

#medlibs and #canmedlibs

As an aside - I do wish researchers working on search-related projects would include information retrieval experts (i.e. #librarians or information specialists), as we have lots of expertise to contribute on such a project.

Could the universities and academics please stop asking students to conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses? Students can perhaps be expected to critically evaluate a single study at that stage, but a proper systematic review requires real expertise. Ditto meta-analysis.

Okay #medlibs and #canmedlibs, contract work for searching. Which are you more likely to do: 1. run it as a freelance / small business for yourself, 2. take positions where the "business" side of things is handled by the employer, 3. something else? I'd love your thoughts.

To quote me, "Listen, same. It's been a long work." I think that about sums up my week. Thanks for asking. 😂

and there's Wiley, in addition now to T&F. I think it's safe to assume going forward that if a limitation is not stated in an author's contract, any published content will be used to train AI models by all major publishers. #AIharm www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...

#Reproducible search #Reporting is not just for #EvidenceSynthesis reviews. It should be required for studies about search methods; the search strategy is the data collection instrument. How can you #PeerReview a study about search methods if the searches are not provided? Where was #Reviewer2 😅

Officially added my Imposter Crab pin to my bag! No one will notice that "health sciences" isn't included in my title anymore, right? Right. 🦀🥸

Hey #medlibs and #canmedlibs. Has anyone tried the Search Smart tool? This articles does a decent job of explaining how it works (transparency: I skimmed it). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39128887/

#medlibs Show off your database wisdom at the MLA UX Caucus's Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: A Database Tips Lightning Round! Learn more, submit a lightning round proposal, and find the Zoom link to attend the event on October 3, 2pm EDT. go.brown.edu/ux_lightning

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