We greatly appreciated Stephanie Roth’s presentation on her journey performing systematic reviews going from an academic to hospital setting. Her candid insights into supporting systematic reviews—particularly around advocacy, promotion, and professional boundaries—were both practical and inspiring. She shared valuable lessons about recognizing when to advocate for co-authorship, setting clear expectations, and protecting professional integrity when projects become misaligned. Her experiences resonated deeply with our team and offered guidance we can carry forward in our own practice. – Sunny McGowan, Library Director

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Past student testimonials:

What a fantastic course and instructor! The content was current and just the right amount for an introductory course. Stephanie showed empathy towards all of us who felt apprehensive about systematic reviews and her encouragement helped me progress through the course stress-free. She created a very positive online environment where we could ask questions freely and learn together. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! – Shannon

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I really enjoyed this course. Stephanie Roth is a great teacher and has so much wisdom, yet never makes the learner feel they don’t know enough. She is kind and very encouraging. I am thrilled that I learned about the course and the resources she provided, which I plan to utilize. -Sarah

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This was the best Library Juice course I’ve ever taken! -Dory

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The content of this course was exactly what I was hoping for, and it was great to practice writing a protocol for my own review in the exercises. -Lauren

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I recommend this course to anyone who is trying to make sense of systematic reviews or other types of synthesis reviews. Instructor very knowledgeable and helpful with her comments. -Christine

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Stephanie is such a great motivator and encourager. From her posts to students in the discussion board to private email messages, she takes the time to respond respectfully and thoughtfully to posts and questions. -Amy

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I certainly know more than I did before about systematic reviews so the course was worthwhile for me. Thanks for sharing your expertise! I also found the commentary from other participants useful to my learning. -Ines

Very valuable and informative course! -Susan

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This was a great class — lots of useful content and a wonderful, compassionate, student-centered instructor. -Jessica

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Excellent presentations and curated collection of resources. Amount of reading and viewing per week was reasonable for taking this course during the academic year. The weekly forum post and responses and the final protocol project was also manageable in terms of time and not causing a lot of stress. -Louise

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About Medical Librarian, Stephanie Roth, MLIS

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Thanks for visiting! I am a medical librarian, and I am very passionate about helping others to reach their fullest potential with systematic reviews and to increase their energy and enthusiasm for this work despite any adversity. It has been life changing for me to develop my expertise and share my insights and ideas with librarians from around the world.

Before finding my path with systematic reviews, I was struggling to get by as a mom on my new teacher salary. After receiving my Master’s degree in Library and Information Science, I began to explore opportunities in research. Soon after, I was discovered at a local job fair (I almost didn’t attend) by a pain management physicians group. When I interviewed, the doctor/owner of the practice was enthusiastic about research and medicine and was excited for me to join the medical practice to support systematic reviews. I was hired on the spot at my interview but I was very nervous to learn something new and experienced imposter syndrome. Despite my doubts, I poured my heart into learning all that I could. I wanted to prove to him and myself that librarians could become experts in systematic reviews. At that time there weren’t jobs for librarians in systematic reviews, I knew that it was unusual for a librarian to work outside of the library setting, but I was excited to expand the definition of what a librarian could do and be at the forefront of that.

I didn’t know that by teaching myself the process, I’d someday be able to help other librarians gain confidence and expertise in systematic reviews and share their knowledge with others. It has been an amazing career path, to help share the joy and passion of working on systematic reviews with others, while also recognizing how difficult it is too. I am excited to see how you can overcome roadblocks, doubt and adversity to reach your fullest potential as a systematic review librarian! I hope it will be as rewarding to you as it has been for me.

One of my early systematic review mentors (the same doctor who hired me on the spot) passed away after suffering from an illness shortly after his 60th birthday, without him taking a chance on me as a new librarian, this website would not be possible. I’ve decided to donate a portion from any profits from the products and services on this website to support dementia and alzheimer’s research.

To support and learn more about Alzheimer’s and Dementia research, please visit. ​https://www.alz.org/​​

Fun facts about me:

My initials became SR after getting married. (What were the odds?)

Besides my passion for systematic reviews I am passionate about working out, ​art​, making things, and iced coffee! Oh yes and being a mom!

Read our ​paper​ about parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic!

Credentials:

M.S. Library & Information Science (Drexel University)

Graduate Certificate in Strategic Communication and Cross-Cultural Leadership (Temple University, 2021)

AHIP Distinguished (Medical Library Association)

B.S. Education, Major: Library Science (Clarion University of Pennsylvania)

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ORCiD: ​https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5415-1718​​

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Thank you!

I just want to take a moment to say a quick thank you! Finding systematic reviews changed my life, I have had a humble start in my career and I was unsure of myself in the beginning. I have been lucky to have been able to run with the opportunities presented to me and enjoyed engaging and getting to know so many people along the way. I've jumped all in and threw myself in very uncomfortable situations like teaching webinars, live courses, online courses, leading a team, leading a caucus, and sharing my ideas. It is the people I've met along the way that have really impacted me and have given me the most joy, so thank you!