@article{Ross-White_2021, title={An environmental scan of librarian involvement in systematic reviews at Queen’s University: 2020 update}, volume={42}, url={https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jchla/index.php/jchla/article/view/29517}, DOI={10.29173/jchla29517}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p> <p>Systematic reviews are a growing research methodology in the health sciences, and in other disciplines, having a significant impact on librarian workload. In a follow up to an earlier study, an environmental scan was conducted at Queen's University to determine what impact, if any, the introduction of a tiered service had on review publications where at least one co-author was from Queen's.</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong></p> <p>A search was conducted in PubMed and the Joanna Briggs database to find systematic reviews and meta-analyses with at least one author from Queen's University for the five-year time since the last environmental scan. Reviews were categorized by the degree of involvement of the librarian(s): librarian as co-author, librarian named in the acknowledgements, no known librarian involvement in the review.</p> <p><strong>Results</strong></p> <p>Of 453 systematic reviews published in the five-year time frame, nearly 20% (89) had a librarian named as co-author. A further 24.5% (110) acknowledged the role of a librarian in the search, either in the acknowledgements section or in the body of the text of the article. In just over half of reviews (235 or 51.8%) a librarian was either not involved, or was not explicitly acknowledged in some capacity. Librarian involvement represented a wider range of persons and institutions.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p> <p>In the five years since the last environmental scan, an increasing number of reviews recognize the role of the librarian in publishing systematic reviews, either through co-authorship or named acknowledgement. Also, as more librarians became involved in systematic reviews, librarian capacity has increased.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l’Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada}, author={Ross-White, Amanda}, year={2021}, month={Aug.} }