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Name of Collaboratory :
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Campbell Collaboration (C2)
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URL :
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http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/index.html |
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Collaboratory Status
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| Operational
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Start Date :
2000
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Primary Collaboratory Function :
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Community Data Systems |
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Secondary Collaboratory Functions :
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Virtual Community of Practice, Distributed Research Center |
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Domain(s)
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Social Welfare, Psychology, Education, and Criminology
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Brief Description
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The Campbell Collaboration seeks to bring together the social science researcher with the social science practitioner. Campell is modeled after its sister organization the Cochrane Collaboration, which covers the health sciences. Campbell will publish systematic reviews of research in the social sciences, including the fields of education, criminology, psychology, and social welfare, focusing on "what works" in these fields. Campbell's first content--the Social, Psychological, Educational and Criminological Trials Register (C2-SPECTR)--was received from Cochrane in December 2002. This database contains nearly 12,000 randomized and possibly randomized trials in education, social welfare and criminal justice and is made available without restrictions on the Web. The database is currently managed with ProCite 5, an off-the-shelf software from the Thompson Company.
Campbell seeks to engage the general public, service providers, policy makers, educators, students, and professional researchers alike. A key goal of the project is to become a widely-used reference for policy makers. Current contributors do so out of goodwill and a belief they can make a difference with applied social sciences.
Stated values of the project are collaboration, good communications, open decision-making and teamwork are stated values of the project, good management practices, open access, economy of effort, and bias free, current, complete, relevant, and quality work.
As a younger and less centralized organization than Cochrane, Campbell is still seeking a funding model (source) to promote the broad creation and use of systematic reviews that Cochrane enjoys. The Nordic Countries and Australia have provided infrastructure funding to Campbell groups in their countries, focusing on social research and crime and justice, respectively, in their own countries. The social sciences are in general less central than the medical sciences, and there is also some debate about the focused use of quantitative research.
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Access to
Instruments :
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Access to the Campbell Library is free via the World Wide Web. |
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Access to
Information Resources :
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The C2-SPECTR database of over 10,000 randomized and possibly randomized trials in education, social work and welfare, and criminal justice is managed by ProCite—an off the shelf software product from the Thompson Company. Systematic reviews are presented in html from campbellcollaboration.org; there are currently tree of these. |
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Access to
People as Resources :
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Cambell Justice, hosted by Australian Institute of Criminology, organizes four international meetings a year and offers email lists and newsletter archives. The Methods Group, hosted by Duke University, also offers email lists and newsletter archives.
The Nordic Campbell Center also offers yearly colloquia and several training sessions a year. Campbell Collaboration hosts one colloquia a year. The Steering Group, which oversees management of Campbell, is made up of 14 people, they meet twice a year (at their own expense). |
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Funding Agency
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| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
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| Smith Richardson Foundation |
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| Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare |
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| Swedish Council for Social Research (FAS) |
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| University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communications |
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| University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (PennGSE) |
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| University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work |
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Notes on Funding Agencies/Sponsors:
The funding agencies listed above have largely supported individual centers or smaller projects, meetings, or initiatives with grants. Campbell lacks central infrastructure funding and is more decentralized than its sister organization, The Cochrane Collaboration. The Nordic Campbell Center is financed by a Danish government grant and is a subsidiary of the Danish National Institute of Social Research with specific focus on social and welfare policy. The Campbell Methods group is largely funded and hosted by Duke University while the Campbell Justice Center is hosted and funded by the Australia government.
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500
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Notes on Participants/Organizations:
27 countries are involved with Campbell in some way. Much participation is spurred by word of mouth promotion and the belief the use of systematic reviews in social welfare practice will improve outcomes of social welfare programs.
Leadership and management provided by Steering Committee which is made up of unpaid volunteers. Even travel expenses to/from meetings/colloquial are not covered. The lack of infrastructure/centralized funding has made coordination difficult. Persons who produce reviews share their rights with the Campbell Collaboration.
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Communications Technology
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WWW
ProCite 5
Email
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Listservs |
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Technical
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Asynchronous object sharing
Index/metadata, Email/attachments
Asynchronous conversation
Email
Synchronous conversation
Audio
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Key Articles : |
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Project-reported performance data
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The Collaboration is in contact with over 6,000 individuals and organizations directly. CampbellCollaboration.org receives over 50,000 hits on the website per quarter. |
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