Want to learn more about getting involved with creating and supporting systematic reviews?

Then book your ticket for the UHMLG Spring Forum on Friday 3^rd April 2020.

It will be held at the fantastic venue of the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

We have a great line of speakers

· Cochrane Crowdsourcing Challenge – Anna Noel-Storr (Information Specialist for the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, Oxford University)

How citizen science can assist the management of information overload in identifying evidence for Cochrane systematic reviews.

· Measuring the systematic reviews support provided by Librarians/Information Specialists at other Higher Education institutions - Andra Fry and Kevin Wilson (LSE Library, London School of Economics)

Increased demand to develop a formalised systematic review service at the LSE led to them investigating the picture across the HE landscape. The speakers will share their results and implications for future practice.

· A review of the LSHTM Systematic Reviews – Jane Falconer (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

How the review of systematic review processing at the LSHTM led to the transformation of the service and development of new practices in undertaking and supporting systematic reviews across the institution.

· Improving information support processes for systematic reviews at NICE - Lynda Ayiku and Paul Levay (Information Specialists, NICE)

This presentation will show how NICE supports systematic reviews through developing filters, screening and text mining to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of searches.

· Shifting sands: maintaining library support for evidence syntheses at Bodleian Health Care Libraries – Nia Wyn Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries)

This talk will outline the different service models used by the library in supporting systematic reviews and how they changed to an outreach model embedded within the university research groups. It will also provide an overview of the training programmes developed for both researchers and library staff.

· Tips and tricks of the trade – sharing and remembering (nearly) everything about systematic review searching - Judy Wright (University of Leeds)

"What year did Web of Science – SCI begin?”, “How do I report a search from ClinicalTrials.gov?”, “What’s the latest guidance on rapid reviews searches?”, “Have we done searches for overviews of systematic reviews before and what did we call the strategies”? – just some questions that might come up when undertaking new systematic reviews.

Judy will provide practice tips of how to share and manage the knowledge of all things related to systematic review searching and show how an internal Wiki can help.

· The Development of a Systematic Review Support Service at Cardiff – Delyth Morris (Medical Subject Librarian, Cardiff University)

Delyth will share outcomes of a year long project at Cardiff. The library have been investigating how to deliver consistent support for systematic reviews and potentially making it income-generating as part of a core service.