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Let me be clear: work is not requiring this of me. This is my choice, because of factors related to the pandemic, a highly atypical situation, and guilt about having to prioritize some things at the expense of others. +
I'm an early riser most days anyway, and I was laying in bed thinking about how much library work I have to get done this week, and thought, 'Why not just do some of it now? Brain is on and running, might as well use it.' So here I am. +
This is for a #systematicreview that I meant to have done weeks ago, but had to triage lower because of time sensitive, high demand COVID searching. I need to run final searches, export to EndNote, deduplicate, and upload in to the tool they're using. +
Got my Spotify playlist(s) lined up. Got my search documentation and notes in front of me. Got EndNote libraries for each database and the combined one prepped (overkill, but I've learned the hard way that doing it this way is best for me). +
I think I'm good to go. I'm actually going to close Chrome (*gasp* - all those TABS!) so I can focus on the sometimes mind-numbing details of exporting from various databases. +
Like Embase, which we have through Ovid, which I have to do in batches of 200 results at a time. FML. (don't @ me - I don't have control over that, I've tried to get it changed, it's out of my hands... it has to be done this way) +
One of the many reasons I don't use Ovid MEDLINE for #systrev and prefer PubMed. Yes, even new PubMed. PubMed is still better than doing Ovid line by line and Ovid's interface trainwreck. That's a hill I will die on. But that's a different discussion. +
ANYWAY. Wish me luck as I dive deep into this systematic review. May I show up on the other side with no duplicate citations and my sanity intact. And hopefully completed some time before lunch, but who knows...
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