Making literature reviews more ethical: a researcher and health sciences librarian collaborative process

Case study from Future Science OA looks into differences between researchers and librarians when it comes to scholarly literature review As we are all aware, comprehensive literature reviews are essential to evidence-based medicine. Bejoy Thomas and colleagues, from Cumming School of Medicine (University of Calgary, Canada) have recently published a case study in Future Science OA emphasizing the need for such reviews to be a collaborative process including the researchers and the healthcare librarian.They created two teams, one containing the researcher and one the librarian (plus a PI in each), who performed parallel, segregated literature searches on the same topic....