Solutions Stories

How the Evidence Synthesis Service Team Helped Bring High Quality, Rigorous Systematic Reviews to Business and Management

The University Libraries’ Evidence Synthesis Service team has offered their expertise to a number of complex, long-term projects taking place across campus. Over the past several years, librarians Sarah Young and Ryan Splenda have collaborated with H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy Denise Rousseau on a systematic review that explored chief executive compensation and its effects on firm financial performance and inaccurate financial reporting. Their work on this project will serve as a proof-of-concept for conducting high quality systematic reviews in business and management.

How the Evidence Synthesis Service Team Helped an Engineering Student Explore Intersections with Open Science

The University Libraries’ Evidence Synthesis Service team has offered their expertise to a number of complex, long-term projects taking place across campus. Since October 2019, Open Science Program Director and Librarian Melanie Gainey and Principal Librarian Sarah Young have collaborated with Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Elizabeth Wayne. Their project is a scoping review about the interactions of nanoparticle-based cancer immunotherapy and macrophages in colorectal cancer.[current-date:fallback]

How the APC Fund Supported Sharing Research on African Coups

When researchers want to publish open access and make their work freely accessible and easily discoverable online, they often have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support production costs.

How the Libraries Helped Bring the History of Telegraphs to Life Online

When Edmund Russell needed a way to make his research publicly accessible online, he turned to the University Libraries’ Web and Applications Developer Jonathan Kiritharan for help.

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Making Sense of Too Much Data

With hundreds of research papers published each day, synthesizing all of the available information for literature reviews has become increasingly difficult. Reading and extracting data from thousands of papers can be daunting and nearly impossible for the average-sized research group.