Hi #medlibs
Reading the Covidence Responsible Automation Principles

I wonder how many teams have used their validated RCT classifier... in studies where the inclusion criterion was not *RCT* but just *any kind of intervention study*?

A lot to think about in my annual roundup of peer review research:

— AI, mostly bad, but some suggestions of ways it may help

— State of evidence on financial incentives for peer review

— Studies on the influence of editors' biases

& more on equity and diversity, & librarians & systematic reviews

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/02/02/5-things-we-learned-about-journal-peer-review-in-2025/

#PeerReview #MedLibs

Are any other #medlibs folks making an attempt to notify patrons of specific CDC databases not being updated? At my library, there’s some thought we should make users aware of the most recent list published in the Annals of internal medicine.

I found the ninth different domain where I have to enter my Clarivate password. (Ok, three of them are subdomains of clarivate.com.) Come on! #medlibs

Hi #medlibs and #scholcomm people

Any idea whether this language on the website of a medical society that publishes some hybrid journals means that they allow green (no APC) compliance with the 2024 NIH public access policy?

Hi #medlibs and others, anyone have experience with PROSPERO4animals?

Bannach-Brown, A., Rackoll, T., Kaynak, N., Drude, N., Aquarius, R., Vojvodić, S., Abreu, M., Menon, J. M. L., & Wever, K. E. (2024). Navigating PROSPERO4animals: 10 top tips for efficient pre-registration of your animal systematic review protocol. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 24(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02146-0

RE: https://social.coop/@natematias/115741623342907357

#medlibs if you like this thread you will also like this guidance on the commercial determinants of health and evidence synthesis:
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02323-0

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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kzzxn6tfprl2qholu7dteveg/post/3ma6n7rl3622t

#medlibs - an interesting proposal, and seeming more necessary as the complexity of AI tool details and uses in #evidencesynthesis work increases: Transparent Reporting of AI in Systematic Literature Reviews: Development of the PRISMA-trAIce Checklist. doi.org/10.2196/80247

Transparent Reporting of AI in...

RE: https://wisskomm.social/@iqwig/115695334789619646

New study from IQWiG: You can do without searching Embase for drug studies – though that could change if something drastic happened to PubMed.

(Currently only in German.)

#MedLibs

Hi #medlibs and #datalibs and #OpenAccess / #PublicAccess / #OA experts

The FDA policy post-Nelson memo says:

Immediate availability of scholarly publications and underlying scientific data "as soon as practicable" upon formal publication

The whole thing is a quote. The quotation marks are their own. See it at https://www.fda.gov/science-research/about-science-research-fda/public-access-results-fda-funded-scientific-research

So -- what does that mean exactly? Can FDA-funded extramural researchers publish in a subscription journal that requires an embargo before public access is allowed?

FYI about the JAG (Joint Associations Group) proposal on indirect costs, the FAIR Model

Back in August, there was a document at this URL
https://www.cogr.edu/sites/default/files/FAIR%20Executive%20Summary%20FINAL%207.10.25a.pdf
that described Research Information Services costs -- "project-specific costs related to journal subscriptions, database access, institutional repositories, and related resources -- as costs that can be "linked explicitly to a given project"

Today, I clicked through to the URL linked in the (very good) STAT series "American Science, Shattered" as the FAIR plan. New URL:
https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/FAIR-Executive-Summary-FINAL-9.30.25.pdf
Now it talks about "Research Information and Data Services (RIDS), which are project-specific costs related to digital
repositories, compliance with public access and data sharing policies, institutional licenses for specialized scientific databases, and the personnel and systems required to support these functions."

I think this is an improvement?
#medlibs

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115678760670618588

Great investigation, discussing not only individual cases of medical practice but also population health.
Available in written and podcast formats
#medlibs I am now trying to acquire the documentary film they mention: https://kindlinggroup.org/projects/do-no-harm/

@keadamander
Looks like more fun than the "swimming through abstracts" that I do all day #librarian #medlibs scroll up ;)

PubMed what?
#medlibs

That made it a lot easier for me to do some testing of retrieval in PubMed versus in PMC (where full text searching is possible), to try and figure out whether authors of research about veterans might sometimes mention guns only in the full text of the paper, while using other terminology (like "severe IPV" perhaps) in the title and abstract.

#medlibs

"We're thrilled to announce we're extending Ovid’s first GenAI feature, AI Article Summary, to the PDF article page!" [of select Lippincott journals]

1
I'm the first to admit that authors sometimes leave info out of abstracts. But everyone has skipped the step "let's test whether AI summaries are better (by some criteria that aren't even established yet) than author abstracts" and gone straight to implementation because ?????

2
I think the PDF should be the authors' content and nothing else. No ads. No citations other than the ones the authors chose. No hyperlinks other than the ones the authors chose (looking at you Science direct). And stable content.

#medlibs

Aargh #medlibs you will want to know this

I thought, when I searched "direct from sputum"[tiab] and got search results in PubMed with no error message, that it meant that the PubMed phrase index includes the phrase "direct from sputum."

Actually, it just means that there are a couple records in PubMed where the title or abstract includes direct-from-sputum with hyphens. Those two records get retrieved by this query, and thus no error message about the phrase index is generated.

But actually, if you search Ovid Medline for direct from sputum.mp., you'll get 108 records, most of which have the phrase without the hyphens.

Similarly, if you search PubMed for "direct sputum"[tiab:~1], you'll get results that have the phrase "direct from sputum" in the title or abstract, with *or without* hyphens.

Hi #medlibs, super useful for proximity searching in PubMed (which can't be combined with truncation):

https://pairwise-pubmed.streamlit.app/

Is creator Marijane White on Fedi?

Who introduces forced password rotation a year *after* NIST said stop doing that?
EndNote, that's who :)
#medlibs