EBC8101 - News

March 17

This Thursday, I am giving a talk on Modeling in Healthcare: Requirements and Clinical Processes (presentation)

To read before for the lecture on March 21:

Almoaber, B. and Amyot, D. (2017) A Review on the Contribution of Emergency Department Simulation Studies in Reducing Wait Time. Int. J. of E-Health and Medical Communications, 8(3), 1-21, IGI Global.

Next Thursday (March 28), we have an invited talk on What does research tell us about why projects fail in Africa?, with Prof. Lavagnon Ika (presentation)

To read before for the lecture on March 28:

L.A. Ika (2012) Project Management for Development in Africa: Why Projects Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Project Management Journal, 43(4), 27-41.
O. Bentahar and L.A, Ika (2019) Matching the Project Manager's Roles to Project Types: Evidence From Large Dam Projects in Africa. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (to appear)

Last week's presentation and related paper by Prof. Bowker
If there is time on March 28: Towards the Ph.D.

March 11

This Thursday, we have an invited talk on Community-based participatory research (CBPR): An example investigating machine translation use in a minority language community, with Prof. Lynne Bowker.
To read before for the lecture on March 14.

This chapter about the CBPR methodological approach, which gives a really nice overview
L. Bowker (2019) Can Machine Translation meet the needs of official language minority communities in Canada? A recipient evaluation. Linguistica Antverpiensia (8).

March 9

Alain's presentation on NVivo 11 for SLRs
The student mini-presentations on Friday April 5 will be from 13:00 to 17:30, in CRX C408 (the new Learning Crossroads building, above the Tim Horton's)
Only 2 people completed their ethics certificate (TCPS 2) so far (congrats to them!). 13 still to go, so don't give up!
To read before for the lecture on March 21.

Almoaber, B. and Amyot, D. (2017) A Review on the Contribution of Emergency Department Simulation Studies in Reducing Wait Time. Int. J. of E-Health and Medical Communications, 8(3), 1-21, IGI Global.

February 13

Revised presentations on Research ethics and academic integrity, and on Presentation and SLR report evaluation instructions, for tomorrow
From Anne

Guide on key Zotero functionalities
How to import references on Covidence (for EndNote, but the principle is the same for the other tools)
Other Covidence videos

To read before for the lecture on Feb. 28
- Borja, A. (2014) Six things to do before writing your manuscript - Part 1. Elsevier Connect, Career Advice.
- Borja, A. (2014) 11 steps to structuring a science paper editors will take seriously - Part 2. Elsevier Connect, Career Advice.
- And these Elsevier Publishing Tips:
  - de Hon, F. (2015) From submission to sharing: the life cycle of an article. Elsevier Connect.
  - Blocken, B. (2017) 10 tips for writing a truly terrible journal article. Elsevier Connect.
  - van Hilten, L. (2015) 3 top tips for responding to reviewer comments on your manuscript. Elsevier Connect.
- Not mandatory, but a great use of your time (and of your supervisor's!)

January 30

Revised presentation on Peer reviewing scholarly papers for tomorrow
Revised presentation on Practice and research in citation analysis (35 MB), with thanks to Prof. André Vellino
To read before for the lecture on Feb. 14

Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (2014), chapters 3 to 5.
uOttawa's Office of Research Ethics and Integrity, especially the mandate and duties of the REB, and the submission process and forms. If you need to do surveys in your research, look at the corporate survey tool (SurveyMonkey).
This is also a good time to finalize your TCPS 2 Tutorial Course on Research Ethics (CORE)

Reminder (again, as there is confusion): Do not forget this requirement (6 marks): Questions on material to be read (preparation for the next class, not past ones!) must be emailed to me and the TA before class (three times, at least two relevant and important questions each time). Get rid of this requirement sooner than later!

January 24

New presentation on SLR protocols
To read before for the lecture on Jan. 31

Hames, I. (2013) COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers. COPE Council.
Pain, E. (2016) How to review a paper. Science, AAAS.
Wilson, J. (2012) Peer Review: the nuts and bolts. Sense about Science.
Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Agreement for Review Committee Members, External Reviewers, and Observers (page 1). Government of Canada.

Not mandatory, but a great use of your time (for Jan. 31)

Alpert, J. (2012) 10 tips for reviewing scientific manuscripts – and 5 red flags. Elsevier Connect.
Lucey, B. (2014) 10 tips from an editor on undertaking academic peer review for journals. Elsevier Connect.

January 17

New version of the presentation on systematic literature reviews

January 11

Covidence: a new tool to support SLRs, available for free at uOttawa!
Updated version of Anne's presentation (with our thanks!)

January 9

The Librarian will give her presentation at 14:30 tomorrow. A preliminary version of her presentation is available. I will then present the course.
To read before for the lecture on Jan. 17

Okoli, C., Schabram, K. (2010) A Guide to Conducting a Systematic Literature Review of Information Systems Research. Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, 10(26)
Kitchenham, B., Charters, S. (2007) Guidelines for performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering. Version 2.3; EBSE Technical Report EBSE-2007-01

To glance at before the lecture on Jan. 17. These are sample systematic literature reviews, some published as a result of EBC8101 reports!

Kitchenham, B., Brereton, O.P., Budgen, D., Turner, M., Bailey, J., Linkman, S. (2009) Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A systematic literature review, Information and software technology 51 (1), 7-15
Nery, P.B., Belliveau, D., Nair, G.M., Bernick, J, Redpath, C.J., Szczotka, A., Sadek, M.M., Green, M.S., Wells, G., Birnie, D.H. (2016) Relationship Between Pulmonary Vein Reconnection and Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 2(4), 474-483
Almoaber, B., Amyot, D. (2017) Barriers to Successful Health Information Exchange Systems in Canada and the USA - A Systematic Review. Int. J. of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, 12(1), 44-63
Horkoff, J., et al. (2017) Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study. Requirements Engineering
See also other literature reviews produced in EBC8101/8102

To read before for the lecture on Jan. 24

Adler, R., Ewing, J., Taylor, P. (2008) Citation Statistics. A report from the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in cooperation with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_impact

To glance at before the lecture on Jan. 24

Meho, L.I. (2007) The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis. Phys. World 20(1), 32. Preprint.
Garfield, E. (1979) Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool? Scientometrics, 1(4), 359-375
Zhu, X. Turney, P.D., Lemire, D., Vellino, A. (2015) Measuring academic influence: Not all citations are equal. JASIST 66(2): 408-427

Here is the protocol template that will be used to submit and peer-evaluate your protocol.

This guide to creating research questions (R. Feldt, 2010) might also be useful

Here is the form for peer-reviewing the protocol of another student
Online TCPS 2 Tutorial Course on Research Ethics (CORE)

Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2)
Covers many situations relevant to Canada's Tri-Council (NSERC in sciences/engineering, CIHR in health, SSHRC in social sciences)
Use your @uOttawa email to do this tutorial.
Available in English and French.
Many questions propose 3 scenarios or contexts (sciences/engineering, health, social sciences); you can explore the category (or categories) of your choice at each question.
Be ethical... Do the exercise seriously (probably takes 5-6 hours in total).
To be done any time this semester (the sooner the better, but no later than April 15). Email me the certificate when you have completed the eight required modules, and keep a copy preciously!

Do not forget this requirement (6 marks): Questions on material to be read must be emailed to me and the TA before class (three times, at least two relevant and important questions each time). Get rid of this requirement sooner than later!

January 3

Syllabus available

No manual needed. PowerPoint presentations and papers will be made available online.

To read before the first lecture on Jan. 10

Last year's presentation by Agnieszka Szczotka (librarian): Systematic Reviews - Searching the literature (with additional recommended resources)
Hunter, L.K. (2014) A Primer on Showing Empathy in the Tech Industry - How to really be excellent to each other.

Many good advice from a software engineer about how I would like us to behave in class this semester.

Phelps, R., Fisher, K. & Ellis, A. (2007) Effective Literature Searching. In R. Phelps, K. Fisher, & A. Ellis (Eds.) Organizing and Managing Your Research. (pp. 128-150). London, England: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Papaioannou, D., Sutton, A., Carroll, C., Booth, A., & Wong, R. (2010). Literature searching for social science systematic reviews: consideration of a range of search techniques. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 27(2), 114-122.

The docs directory contains the presentations and many of the papers from last year (many will be updated this year). Username and password to be provided by email.
Research guides and librarians