Types and roles of reviews of the literature in dental education

Nevius, Amanda; Stellrecht, Elizabeth; Schvaneveldt, Nena; Dragan, Irina F

doi:10.1002/jdd.12140

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“…Librarians can also serve as methodologists and ensure that the review type matches the review question, that the review question is answerable, and that the review methods are carried out well [15]. Librarians may be able to help subject experts determine which kind of review their questions would be suitable for and, thus, improve the quality of the final product [16]. However, librarians face barriers to assuming roles in systematic reviews other than searching and often want more time and training to assume these other roles [17].…”

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Assessing the roles and challenges of librarians in dental systematic and scoping reviews

Schvaneveldt¹,

Stellrecht²

2021

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Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the scope of experience, roles, and challenges that librarians face in participating in dental and oral health systematic and scoping reviews to inform outreach efforts to researchers and identify areas for librarian professional development.Methods: The authors developed a twenty-three-item survey based on the findings of two recent articles about health sciences librarians’ roles and challenges in conducting systematic and scoping reviews. The survey was distributed via electronic mailing lists to librarians who were likely to have participated in conducting dental systematic and scoping reviews.Results: While survey respondents reported participating in many dental reviews, they participated more commonly in systematic reviews than in scoping reviews. Also, they worked less commonly on dental and oral health reviews than on non-dental reviews. Librarian roles in dental reviews tended to follow traditional librarian roles: all respondents had participated in planning and information retrieval stages, whereas fewer respondents had participated in screening and assessing articles. The most frequently reported challenges involved the lead reviewer or review team rather than the librarians themselves, with time- and methodology-related challenges being most common.Conclusions: Although librarians might not be highly involved in dental and oral health systematic and scoping reviews, more librarian participation in these reviews, either as methodologists or information experts, may improve their reviews’ overall quality.

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confidence: 99%