Journal of the Medical Library Association back issues from October 2003:
The JMLA readership survey
Oct 01, 2003; ... One ought to be cautious when looking at the comments in a survey. There is a natural tendency to give more weight to the written comments than to the dull percentages. Your survey might show that 85% of your clientele think the librarians are wonderful, wise and incredibly talented, but the one ...
Formation of Canadian health sciences library associations
Oct 01, 2003; ... The symposium on the creation and achievements of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) [1] demonstrates the differences in how health sciences library associations have been formed in Canada and the United States. As described in the symposium, the more "specialized" ...
Delivering Internet health resources to an underserved health care profession: school nurses*[dagger]
Oct 01, 2003; ... Purpose: This paper reports on a course developed for school nurses. The course focused on locating reliable and high-quality medical information resources on the Internet. Setting/Participants/Resources: The Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) of the University of Pittsburgh formed a ...
HolisticKids.org-Evolution of information resources in pediatric complementary and alternative medicine projects: from monographs to Web learning*[dagger]
Oct 01, 2003; ... Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is growing in the United States. Children are a part of this trend, with adolescent self-care exceeding adult use. As a result, the necessity of educating pediatricians on CAM practices has become clear. This paper describes the Pediatric ...
The management of health library outreach services: evaluation and reflection on lessons learned on the VIVOS project*
Oct 01, 2003; ... Purpose: The aim of the VIVOS project was to develop and evaluate methodologies, i.e., sets of methods, for determining the value and impact of "virtual outreach" information services in the health sector in the UK. Methods: Five different projects were recruited initially, with another ...
Emerging ethical issues in instructions to authors of high-impact biomedical journals
Oct 01, 2003; ... Public interest in issues concerning the maintenance of high ethical standards in the conduct of scientific research and its publication has been increasing. Some of the developments in these issues as reflected in the publication of the medical literature are traced here. This paper attempts to ...
MEDLINE SDI services: how do they compare?*
Oct 01, 2003; ... Introduction: Selective dissemination of information (SDI) services regularly alert users to new information on their chosen topics. This type of service can increase a user's ability to keep current and may have a positive impact on efficiency and productivity. Currently, there are many venues ...
Testing the Database of International Rehabilitation Research: using rehabilitation researchers to determine the usability of a bibliographic database
Oct 01, 2003; ... Objectives: This study tested the usability of the Database of International Rehabilitation Research, a bibliographic database developed by the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE). Methods: Potential users, i.e., rehabilitation researchers, ...
Teaching health informatics: designing a course for a new graduate informatics program
Oct 01, 2003; ... INTRODUCTION The burgeoning field of informatics provides a host of possibilities for teaching and curriculum development for librarians and information technology professionals. In a new school or program, there may not be any standardized curricula or set course syllabi that one must ...
Internet Power Searching: The Advanced Manual
Oct 01, 2003; ... BRADLEY, PHIL. Internet Power Searching: The Advanced Manual. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers in association with Library Association Publishing, London, U.K., 2002. 258 p. $45.00. ISBN 10 -555700 -4470 -6.(∞) With the plethora of Internet reference guides, handbooks, ...
The Virtual Reference Librarian's Handbook
Oct 01, 2003; ... LIPOW, ANNE GRODZINS. The Virtual Reference Librarian's Handbook. Berkley, CA: Library Solutions Press in association with Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 2003. 199 p. $85.00. ISBN:l-55570-445-X.(∞) This volume is a useful and practical guide for librarians who are ...
OBITUARY: Kathryn (Katy) W. Nesbit, 1954-2003
Oct 01, 2003; ... Katy Nesbit, coordinator of education services in the Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester Medical Center, died on May 22, 2003, after a courageous yearlong battle with cancer. She was also a faculty member in the Division of Medical Informatics in the university's School of ...
Professional boundaries and medical records management
Oct 01, 2003; ... Curiosity about the purpose of a group with the intriguing name of the Misnomers Committee led to the discovery that, in the 1950s and early 1960s, the Medical Library Association attempted to change the name of another profession. Concerned about confusion between medical librarians and medical ...
Business as usual?
Oct 01, 2003; ... The relationships between publishers, booksellers (or agents) and libraries have always been characterized by certain ambiguities. In some ways these three groups are mutually supportive, in other ways they are competitors. For example, libraries buy books, thus providing income for publishers ...
Woman to Woman: Community Health Information Project*
Oct 01, 2003; ... The Woman to Woman: Community Health Information Project facilitates information access at selected community-based women's health agencies in Houston, Texas. The community partners were selected based on objectives outlined in Healthy People 2010. A variety of institutions and disciplines ...
Bibliometric study of grey literature in core veterinary medical journals
Oct 01, 2003; ... Objectives: Grey literature has been perceived by many as belonging to the primary sources of information and has become an accepted method of nonconventional communication in the sciences and medicine. Since little is known about the use and nature of grey literature in veterinary medicine, a ...
Increasing access to Latin American social medicine resources: a preliminary report*
Oct 01, 2003; ... Purpose: This preliminary report describes the development and implementation of a project to improve access to literature in Latin American social medicine (LASM). Methods: The University of New Mexico project team collaborated with participants from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and ...
Influence of information sources on the adoption of uterine fibroid embolization by interventional radiologists
Oct 01, 2003; ... Objectives: The purpose of the research was to (1) understand the influence of information sources on the awareness and adoption of uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) by interventional radiologists in Michigan and (2) to decipher communication relations in the social network of interventional ...
Research methodology search filters: are they effective for locating research for evidence-based veterinary medicine in PubMed?
Oct 01, 2003; ... Objective: The study examined the effectiveness of research methodology search filters developed by Haynes and colleagues and utilized by the Clinical Query feature of PubMed for locating literature for evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM). Methods: A manual review of articles ...
Information literacy skills of occupational therapy graduates: a survey of learning outcomes
Oct 01, 2003; ... Objectives: The purpose of this study is to assess whether recent graduates of the Ohio State University's Occupational Therapy division are applying information-seeking skills they learned as undergraduates, and to seek their advice on ways to improve information-literacy instruction for ...
Database-Driven Websites
Oct 01, 2003; ... ANTELMAN, KRISTIN, ED. Database-Driven Websites. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Information Press, 2002.133 p. Softcover, $24.95. ISBN: 0-7890-1739-3. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 00 -78900-17380 -5.(∞) The increasing importance of the virtual library carries with it the necessity of ...
Own Your Health: Choosing the Best from Alternative and Conventional Medicine
Oct 01, 2003; ... WEISMAN, ROANNE. Own Your Health: Choosing the Best from Alternative and Conventional Medicine. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 2003. 471 p. $16.95. ISBN 00 -75730 -00110 -1.(∞) For those interested in alternative therapies alone or as a complement to conventional ...
Users' Guides Interactive
Oct 01, 2003; ... Users' Guides Interactive. Robert Hayward, M.D., and Tanya Voth, M.L.I.S.; Centre for Health Evidence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; http:// www.usersguides.org/; free access with subscriptions to JAMA or the Archives journals online. The JAMA 25-article series, ...