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Sarah Young

Principal Librarian

Sarah Young is a social sciences librarian, providing teaching and research support.


Expertise

Topics:  Information Systems, Social & Decision Sciences, Statistics, Reference, Public Policy

Industries: Public Policy, Political Organization

Sarah Young is a social sciences librarian, providing teaching and research support to the Heinz College, the departments of Statistics & Data Science, and Information Systems and the Institute for Politics and Strategy. She holds graduate degrees in library and information science and development and international relations. She teaches workshops on tools for citation management and data cleaning. In addition, Young provides methodological expertise for evidence synthesis (such as systematic and scoping reviews) in the social sciences, conducts research on evidence synthesis methods and develops and conducts evidence synthesis training locally and abroad. Young is a co-convener for the Campbell Collaboration's Information Retrieval Methods Group.

Education

M.L.I.S., University of Pittsburgh
M.Sc, Development and International Relations, Aalborg University

Links

Articles

Searching for evidence in public health emergencies: a white paper of best practices —  Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA

Rigour in phenomenological and phenomenography studies: A scoping review of library and information science research —  Library & Information Science Research

Leveraging microgrants to support capacity-building workshops in low-and middle-income countries for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals —  Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA

Making the case for librarian expertise to support evidence synthesis for the sustainable development goals —  Research Synthesis Methods

An Exploration of Business Librarian Participation in Knowledge Synthesis Reviews —  College & Research Libraries

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