We are delighted to share that the University of Minnesota creators of the Evidence Synthesis Institute, will present on their initiative and share resources for Evidence Synthesis outside the health sciences.

Date: Friday, November 18, 2021

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (EST).

Description:

Librarians and Evidence Synthesis Outside the Health Sciences

1. What do we mean by evidence synthesis? (5 minutes)

2. What disciplines are seeing most growth and why? (10 minutes)

a. Show examples like the CERES 2030 project

3. What is the ES Institute and why did we create it? (20 minutes)

Topics covered and how those differ in various disciplines

4. ES Institute materials that are openly available (10 minutes)

5. Other resources for ES outside the health sciences (Campbell, CEE, librarian professional organizations, our mentoring program, listservs, etc.) (10 minutes)

6. Q&A (5 minutes)

About the presenters:

Amy Riegelman is a social sciences librarian at University of Minnesota where she is a co-chair of the Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis Service and is the liaison to Psychology, Educational Psychology, Child Development, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences departments.

Megan Kocher is a science librarian at the University of Minnesota where she is a co-chair of the Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis Service and is the liaison to the Departments of Animal Science; Food Science and Nutrition; and Soil, Water, and Climate.

Click on the following link to view the Evidence Synthesis Institute curriculum material: https://pressbooks.umn.edu/evidencesynthesisinstitute/ (Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial license)

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