In this episode, Carrie and Tracy answer some questions (and sometimes go a bit off track, but hey, if this isn’t your first listen to the pod, you should expect that). From our favorite question framework to GenX cereals to how to deal with misspelled words in searches to what’s the best eats in St. Mary’s County, Maryland (spoiler: *shrug*). Because we are over the place, here’s a hodgepodge of links and comments:
We like PICO, CoCoPop, SPIDER, and BeHEMoTh (This is a really nice libguide on frameworks!)
Grant and Booth’s Typology of Reviews (2009)
Count Chocula cereal does still exist - you can even buy it on Amazon. There’s also Boo-Berry, Franken Berry, Frute Brute, and Fruity Yummy Mummy to round out the monster cereal options. They’ve been around for over 50 years.
Carrie likes The Lens and Dimensions for grey lit
CADTH’s Grey Matters search
University of Minnesota’s Evidence Synthesis Institute
“It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me…” Apparently Tracy is a bit of a Swiftie, still listening to “Say Don’t Go” on repeat. Fun fact: a long time ago (2010 maybe?), Tracy saw Taylor getting coffee and breakfast at Fido in Nashville.
A systematic search is systematic, obviously. (We don’t have a good answer, made clear when we pull out the Oxford Dictionary.)
Sorry John, we don’t know where to eat in St. Mary’s County. Maybe this will help?
Turner and Eisenstein’s Common Misspellings and Their Impact on Health Sciences Literature Search Results (2023)
@JaniceKung’s tweet about misspellings (apologies for getting your name wrong in the episode!)
Retraction Watch (and the RW database) is wonderful. Its data has been acquired by CrossRef, making it openly available and free. This webinar goes into more detail.
Latin. So helpful. Agricola means farmer.
When are you done searching? When you’re done, obviously. (Seriously though, it’s hard to know!)
Finally, we answer a question about what we would be if we weren’t medlibs and money wasn’t a factor (because we all know that medlibs really rake in the big bucks, amirite?). Tracy would be a stunt driver. Did you know there are 12 Fast & Furious movies, if you count the expanded universe ones? Tracy agrees that number 5 is number 1. They are not the same as the John Wick franchise, whatever Carrie might think. Carrie understood the assignment: she wanted to be Indiana Jones (not really… he isn’t the greatest example of an archaeologist), after reading The Egypt Game as a child. Carrie would also wish to be a famous singer — even better than Taylor Swift! (If you listen closely, you can hear Tracy gasp at the audacity).
MeSH 2024 should be officially released soon, so that will likely be the next episode. Thanks for asking us questions and listening to the podcast!
MM.12: You Had Questions. We Have Answers.