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Are We Practicing What We Preach? Towards Greater Transborder Inclusivity in Information Science Systematic Reviews

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Inclusiveness has been investigated in different ways by Information Science (InfoSci) researchers, often as a line of social justice inquiry. Systematic reviews (SRs), which bridge the gap between research and practice, are a key example of research impacted by inclusiveness. “Transborder” inclusiveness—the ability of researchers from different institutions, regions, and countries to access information, and the inclusion of information from researchers in regions and countries where English is not an official language in major collections of InfoSci research—influences how researchers perform SRs. Although this topic has been identified in other disciplines involved in Evidence Based Practice (EBP) such as nursing, it has received less attention in InfoSci. We address this need through a reflective case study of an SR in InfoSci which brings this transborder issue of inclusiveness into focus, demonstrating problems of access and the value of international collaboration and asking an overarching question: how can we make writing SRs in InfoSci research more inclusive?

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Calantha Tillotson, the Subject Expert Librarian for Information Science at Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, whose support was essential to the research described in this article. We also greatly appreciated the manuscript review by Dr. Ann Medaille, University of Nevada Reno Libraries. This research was funded by a grant from the Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung for the Citizen-based Monitoring for Peace & Security in the Era of Synthetic Media and Deepfakes project (2023–2025).

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Krueger, S., Frank, R.D. (2024). Are We Practicing What We Preach? Towards Greater Transborder Inclusivity in Information Science Systematic Reviews. In: Sserwanga, I., et al. Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win. iConference 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14598. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57867-0_6

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