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ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2015

The data life cycle applied to our own data.

Abigail Goben, Rebecca Raszewski

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Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Abigail Gobenagoben@uic .edu , Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor; raszewr1@uic.edu , Assistant Information Services Librarian and Associate Professor; Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1750 West Polk Street, Chicago, IL 60612.
Rebecca Raszewskiagoben@uic .edu , Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor; raszewr1@uic.edu , Assistant Information Services Librarian and Associate Professor; Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1750 West Polk Street, Chicago, IL 60612.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increased demand for data-driven decision making is driving the need for librarians to be facile with the data life cycle. This case study follows the migration of reference desk statistics from handwritten to digital format. This shift presented two opportunities: first, the availability of a nonsensitive data set to improve the librarians' understanding of data-management and statistical analysis skills, and second, the use of analytics to directly inform staffing decisions and departmental strategic goals. By working through each step of the data life cycle, library faculty explored data gathering, storage, sharing, and analysis questions.

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LibrariansChicagoComputer Communication NetworksHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalLibraries, MedicalLibrary ServicesOrganizational Case StudiesProfessional RoleUser-Computer Interface

Identifiers

PMID25552944
PMCPMC4279933

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