A Survey Dataset of Health Sciences Librarians’ Attitudes and Behaviours on Research Data Management and Sharing of Knowledge Synthesis Search Strategies

This study investigated the perspectives of Canadian health sciences librarians on the research data management aspects of knowledge synthesis search strategies and the potential barriers they may face. The specific research questions guiding the project include:

RQ1: What are health sciences librarians’ perspectives on retaining intellectual ownership and control over their contributions to knowledge synthesis?  

RQ2: Where do they publish or share their contributions (e.g., search strategies)?

RQ3: What are health sciences librarians’ perspectives on applying research data management (RDM) competencies and practices to their intellectual work regarding knowledge synthesis projects? 

To address these research questions, we developed and implemented a survey of health science librarians across Canada in 2024.

This dataset contains a README file (TXT), documentation (PDFs), the anonymized quantiative dataset (CSV and TAB), R markdown notebook scripts to produce the figures (RMD), and the anonymized qualitative responses and analysis codes (CSV and TAB), as well as a codebook for the qualitative analysis.