1. Supporting systematic reviews and the role of the Academic Liaison Librarian
Fiona Ware, Academic Liaison Librarian
Library and Learning Innovation,
University of Hull

2. Challenges & Opportunities Future
Overview
Current role
Background
Support
Skills
Challenges & Opportunities
Future

3. Academic Liaison Librarian role
Implementing reading list software
Project work, e.g. ebooks, PDAs
Teaching on postgraduate module
Delivering induction drop-ins, masterclasses and workshops at a generic level

4. Academic Liaison Librarian role
Faculty liaison role – Faculty of Health and Social Care (FHSC) and School of Social Sciences
Book orders, reading lists, etc.
Information skills – embedded, individual support
Attendance at Faculty committee meetings
Research support

5. FHSC Background All FHSC staff to be ‘research active’
University strategic change - teaching AND research
All FHSC staff to be ‘research active’
Increase in research opportunities/portfolio/PhD students
More help needed with literature searching!

6. Supporting systematic reviews – my role
Mostly advising on advanced literature searching!
Group sessions and 121 appointments
2. Conducting searches for a Cochrane review as part of a wider research team

7. Group sessions - examples
PG Forum
Session on literature searching for PhD students, taught with academic
Year long programme set up by Faculty for staff
Session on ‘Literature searching and evaluating research’
Session on advanced searching for ‘systematic reviews’
Fast-Track research programme
Clinical Psychology session

8. Individual support
Assist PhD students and staff members on a 121 basis with literature searching,
search strategies,
appropriate sources,
creating folders, exporting results etc.

9. Cochrane reviews

10. Current support - examples

11. Current support - examples
Current protocol published
Just ran the trials searches

12. Cinahl search strategy
61 lines!

13. Trials registers

15. Timeline 12 months minimum
(taken from the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions)

16. Skills required -
In-depth knowledge of databases and advanced searching
Knowledge of search filters
Ability to formulate research question into appropriate search terms
Translate search strategies from one database to another
Skills to export data and share

17. Challenges for Cochrane reviews-
Time!
Refreshing skills
Repeating work - need to re-run the searches nearer to publication and for updates
Responsibility for creating an effective search strategy
Getting familiar with Archie!
Having quiet time to sit and go through the searches
Remembering how to input an advanced search, line by line
Searches need repeating again nearer publication
Form filling – declaration of interest, membership form, title registration form

18. Cochrane review update published Protocol published for next one
Successes -
Cochrane review update published
Protocol published for next one
Improved skills in searching – help with other info skills
Online support materials – new Libguide in development

19. Be a part of a team in the faculty
Opportunities
Be a part of a team in the faculty
Increased literature searching skills
Supporting research within the University

20. Very early stages of an organisational review Priorities on:
Future
Very early stages of an organisational review
Priorities on:
Graduate attributes
Employability skills
Research support: Open Access; Research Data Management

21. Questions? Academic Liaison Librarian Fiona Ware follow us on twitter HullUni_Library