Rigor and reproducibility instruction in academic medical libraries.

Background: Concerns over scientific reproducibility have grown in recent years, leading the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require researchers to address these issues in research grant applications. Starting in 2020, training grants were required to provide a plan for educating trainees in rigor and reproducibility. Academic medical centers have responded with different solutions to fill this educational need. As experienced instructors with expertise in topics relating to reproducibility, librarians can play a prominent role in providing trainings, classes, and events to educate investigators and trainees, and bolstering reproducibility in their communities. Case Presentations: This special report summarizes efforts at five institutions to provide education in reproducibility to biomedical and life sciences researchers. Our goal is to expand awareness of the range of approaches in providing reproducibility services in libraries. Conclusions: Reproducibility education by medical librarians can take many forms. These specific programs in reproducibility education build upon libraries' existing collaborations, with funder mandates providing a major impetus. Collaborator needs shaped the exact type of educational or other reproducibility support and combined with each library's strengths to yield a diversity of offerings based on capacity and interest. As demand for and complexity of reproducibility education increases due to new institutional and funder mandates, reproducibility education will merit special attention.

Student nurses conducting research among their peers: lessons learned.

Introducing real world experiences into nursing education is a challenge, but it is worth the effort? In this case, upperclassmen nursing students gathered data for a funded study; the study benefitted from increased subject responsiveness. The student-researchers benefitted from greater self-efficacy in nursing research and an increased professional self-image. They also saw firsthand the complications that occur in gathering data and felt that the research process became more real to them. The use of student researchers is recommended as an active learning technique to instill lifelong understanding of and appreciation for research among future nurses.