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New For All UW Researchers: Covidence, Evidence Synthesis Tool

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The UW Health Sciences Library has implemented a new institutional license for Covidence, a leading online platform for evidence synthesis projects, including systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and more.
The UW Health Sciences Library has implemented a new institutional license for Covidence, a leading online platform for evidence synthesis projects, including systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and more.

The UW Health Sciences Library has implemented a new institutional license for Covidence, a leading online platform for evidence synthesis projects, including systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and more.

This new license is available to all UW faculty, staff, and students and is made possible in partnership with the UW Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Social Work.

Covidence is used by the world’s leading institutions to bring together research from around the globe and “turn it into trustworthy summaries of scientific knowledge.”

“We are thrilled to offer this high-demand research synthesis tool to all UW users,” says Tania Bardyn, Associate Dean for Health Sciences and Director, Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM), Region 5. “Covidence will reduce the need for multiple tools and make it easier for researchers to screen, review, assess, extract and export data for evidence synthesis projects.”

UW Health Sciences Library has developed a comprehensive Covidence Guide to help users get started including instructions for how to transition an existing account, access to monthly training sessions and more. The next available training session will be held next Monday, March 27.

For further assistance, please feel free to contact your subject librarian or chat with a librarian 24/7.

UW Libraries Joins Dryad

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UW Libraries is pleased to announce its official membership with the generalist data repository Dryad, an open data publishing platform and development community. The Dryad Data Platform is a curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types and now counts over 75 institutions and publishers in its membership.  See the Dryad research guide for more information on how UW researchers can get started with the service.

Dryad is the first open data publishing platform available to UW users. It will serve as a companion to UW Libraries ResearchWorks, which is best for texts and some small data sets. As a generalist repository, Dryad accepts data regardless of data type, format, content, or disciplinary focus.

The UW Libraries implementation of Dryad aligns with the increasing advocacy of public research universities to provide for the open sharing of research data and outputs. This announcement also comes on the heels of the National Institutes of Health’s new data management and sharing policy that went into effect January 23rd.  Dryad is one of the Generalist Repositories recommended by the National Institutes of Health.

Because UW Libraries is covering the full cost membership, UW users will not have to pay a fee to deposit data in Dryad.

For more information visit Dryad research guide or contact Jenny Muilenburg, Research Data Services Librarian.

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