{"id":17607,"date":"2025-07-10T17:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/?p=17607"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:45:40","slug":"call-for-proposals-science-technology-libraries-special-issue-on-evidence-synthesis-deadline-sun-aug-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/call-for-proposals-science-technology-libraries-special-issue-on-evidence-synthesis-deadline-sun-aug-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Proposals: Science &amp; Technology Libraries Special Issue on Evidence Synthesis&#8211;Deadline Sun., Aug. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(via Elizabeth (Betsy) Sterner, Northern Illinois University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journal <em>Science &amp; Technology Libraries<\/em>, published by Taylor &amp; Francis, is soliciting submissions for both peer-reviewed and editor-reviewed featured articles for a special issue on evidence synthesis. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How do you support systematic reviews with little prior experience, background, and expertise?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do you build support\/policies\/service with the backing of library administrators to create sustainable boundaries?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to guide researchers to the right type of evidence synthesis?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>State of the profession &#8211; current lit review of systematic reviews<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Challenges experienced or anticipated with evidence synthesis support for non-health related disciplinary perspectives?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are best practices for working with faculty in different non-health fields: Engineering, Biology, Computer Science, Earth Science, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other topics are welcome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accepted articles are anticipated to be published in Volume 46, Issue 4, in 2026. Expressions of interest for this special issue are due <strong>Sunday, August 31, 2025<\/strong>, via the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeDwewa24xiN1HJUMV-v3aMVTEJcJU3aMwKuMSuL0VjEEkTjg\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposal form<\/a>. Once approved for the issue, completed articles will be due to the guest editors February 28, 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instructions for authors and other journal information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/journals\/wstl20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further inquiries can be directed to the special issue editors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth Sterner, <a href=\"mailto:esterner@niu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">esterner@niu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mary Schlembach, <a href=\"mailto:schlemba@illinois.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">schlemba@illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ian Gordon, <a href=\"mailto:igordon@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">igordon@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Elizabeth (Betsy) Sterner, Northern Illinois University) The journal Science &amp; Technology Libraries, published by Taylor &amp; Francis, is soliciting submissions for both peer-reviewed and editor-reviewed featured articles for a special issue on evidence synthesis. Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to, the following ones. Accepted articles are anticipated to be published&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-and-requests","category-scholarly-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17608,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607\/revisions\/17608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}