scholarly journals Interlibrary loan in US and Canadian health sciences libraries 2005: update on journal article use

2007 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve-Marie Lacroix ◽  
Maria Elizabeth Collins
Keyword(s):  
Journal Article ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Interlibrary Loan ◽  
Canadian Health

scholarly journals Advancing the conversation: next steps for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) health sciences librarianship

2017 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake W. Hawkins ◽  
Martin Morris ◽  
Tony Nguyen ◽  
John Siegel ◽  
Emily Vardell
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Lgbtq Health ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Seeking Behavior

In recent years, librarians in various sectors have been moving forward a conversation on the distinct information needs and information-seeking behavior of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) patrons and how well the profession recognizes and meets those needs. Health sciences librarianship has been slower than other areas of the profession in creating an evidence base covering the needs of its LGBTQ patrons, with, until recently, only very limited literature on this subject. LGBTQ health sciences librarianship is now starting to attract new interest, with librarians working together to bring this emerging specialization to the attention of the broader professional community. In this paper, the authors report on a dedicated panel discussion that took place at the 2016 joint annual meeting of the Medical Library Association and Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; discuss subsequent reflections; and highlight the emerging role for health sciences librarians in providing culturally competent services to the LGBTQ population. Recommendations are also provided for establishing a tool kit for LGBTQ health sciences librarianship from which librarians can draw. We conclude by highlighting the importance of critically reflective practice in health sciences librarianship in the context of LGBTQ health information.

scholarly journals Borrowing trouble? The impact of a systematic review service on interlibrary loan borrowing in an academic health sciences library

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Jarvis ◽  
Joan Marcotte Gregory ◽  
Alison Mortensen-Hayes ◽  
Mary McFarland
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Financial Impact ◽  
Interlibrary Loan ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Academic Health ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
The Impact

Background: With the mandate to review all available literature in the study’s inclusion parameters, systematic review projects are likely to require full-text access to a significant number of articles that are not available in a library’s collection, thereby necessitating ordering content via interlibrary loan (ILL). The aim of this study is to understand what effect a systematic review service has on the copyright royalty fees accompanying ILL requests at an academic health sciences library.Case Presentation: The library created a custom report using ILLiad data to look specifically at 2018 ILL borrowing requests that were known to be part of systematic reviews. This subset of borrowing activity was then analyzed to determine its impact on the library’s copyright royalty expenditures for the year. In 2018, copyright eligible borrowing requests that were known to be part of systematic reviews represented only approximately 5% of total filled requests that involved copyright eligible borrowing. However, these systematic review requests directly or indirectly caused approximately 10% of all the Spencer S. Eccles Library copyright royalty expenditures for 2018 requests.Conclusion: Based on the sample data set, the library’s copyright royalty expenditures did increase, but the overall financial impact was modest.

scholarly journals A journal cancellation survey and resulting impact on interlibrary loan

2017 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob L. Nash, MSLIS, AHIP ◽  
Karen R. McElfresh, MSLS, AHIP
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Electronic Journal ◽  
Biomedical Journal ◽  
Average Response ◽  
Electronic Journals ◽  
Interlibrary Loan ◽  
Electronic Survey

Objective: The research describes an extensible method of evaluating and cancelling electronic journals during a budget shortfall and evaluates implications for interlibrary loan (ILL) and user satisfaction.Methods: We calculated cost per use for cancellable electronic journal subscriptions (n=533) from the 2013 calendar year and the first half of 2014, cancelling titles with cost per use greater than $20 and less than 100 yearly uses. For remaining titles, we issued an online survey asking respondents to rank the importance of journals to their work. Finally, we gathered ILL requests and COUNTER JR2 turnaway reports for calendar year 2015.Results: Three hundred fifty-four respondents completed the survey. Because of the level of heterogeneity of titles in the survey as well as respondents’ backgrounds, most titles were reported to be never used. We developed criteria based on average response across journals to determine which to cancel. Based on this methodology, we cancelled eight journals. Examination of ILL data revealed that none of the cancelled titles were requested with any frequency. Free-text responses indicated, however, that many value free ILL as a suitable substitute for immediate full-text access to biomedical journal literature.Conclusions: Soliciting user feedback through an electronic survey can assist collections librarians to make electronic journal cancellation decisions during slim budgetary years. This methodology can be adapted and improved upon at other health sciences libraries.

scholarly journals How to write ‘introduction’ in scientific journal article

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay N Shah
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Health Sciences

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scholarly journals The Flower Report: Libraries without walls – (almost) 20 years later

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Trish Chatterley
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Current State ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The Future ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Equality Of Access

In the 1987 report Libraries Without Walls: Blueprint for the Future, Muriel Armstrong Flower put in writing her vision for a library that was open to all Canadians. This paper discusses Flower's recommendations and their outcomes and offers commentary about the current state of Canadian health sciences librarianship. It also outlines recent progress made towards equality of access to health information for all.

scholarly journals Alternative Funding for Academic Medicine: Experience at a Canadian Health Sciences Center

2004 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rosenbaum ◽  
S E. D. Shortt ◽  
D M. C. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Academic Medicine ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Alternative Funding ◽  
Canadian Health

scholarly journals Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691983867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Webster ◽  
Denise Gastaldo ◽  
Steve Durant ◽  
Joan Eakin ◽  
Brenda Gladstone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Scientific Quality ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Scholarly Productivity ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Health Care Settings ◽  
University Policies ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researchers share the effects of the politics of productivity and corporate university policies with other academics, we argue that they are disadvantaged by the combination of the latent biomedical conservatism that characterizes the health sciences in Canada with the lack of frameworks to acknowledge and properly assess alternative forms of interdisciplinary scholarship. In our experience, it is challenging for qualitative researchers to advance in Canadian health sciences faculties. In light of this, we propose a framework for evaluating their scholarly work. We have structured this article in three sections: (a) to characterize the academic landscape in which qualitative health scholars find themselves when housed in Canadian faculties of medicine and their schools of health sciences, (b) to report on an organizational scan we undertook in order to understand current practices of evaluating scholarly productivity at these institutions, and (c) to propose a set of criteria that could more appropriately evaluate the contributions made by qualitative researchers working in the health sciences.

scholarly journals Publication rate of presentation abstracts presented at the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC) annual meetings from 2004-2009

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 252-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine E. Shaw ◽  
Andrea L. Szwajcer
Keyword(s):  
Literature Search ◽  
Search Time ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Publication Rate ◽  
Library Science ◽  
True Rate ◽  
Output Measurement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Canadian Health

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the publication rate of Canadian health sciences librarians, post-conference presentation. Discover barriers that prevent librarians from taking conference presentation to full publication. Assess the metrics available to librarians for scholarly output measurement by examining metrics, traditional and altmetrics, of articles resulting from conference presentation. Design/methodology/approach A survey using FluidSurveys was distributed via e-mail to authors of poster and papers presentation presented at Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada conferences from 2004 to 2009. A literature search for articles matching presentations in National Library of Medicine’s PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts was conducted to determine publication rate. Metrics of retrieved articles were gathered and analyzed to gage scholarly output of Canadian health sciences librarians. Findings A publication rate of 31.5 percent was determined by literature search. Time restriction was the most common reported reason for not publishing. The altmetric analysis included 71 articles, of which 52 percent had at least one value in various metrics, with Mendeley counts being the most common value represented. Research limitations/implications Not all survey respondents may be library science professionals, so that survey findings may not be generalizable to the Canadian health librarian profession. While every effort was made to find and confirm publications related to conference presentations, the reported publication rate may be either an over estimate or under estimate of the true rate. Current altmetric science is very dynamic and evolving. Originality/value This study provides a baseline publication rate, identifies barriers librarians face to publication and provides a glimpse into the state of metrics available to Canadian librarians for evaluation of their scholarly output.

scholarly journals Medical and health sciences academics’ behaviours and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals: a perspective from South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoung Hee Joung ◽  
Jennifer Rowley ◽  
Laura Sbaffi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Gold Open Access

This article seeks to extend the knowledge of the behaviour and attitudes towards open access publishing through a survey that focusses on the attitudes and behaviours of academic researchers in Korea working in medicine and healthcare. Issues covered include: use of and intentions regarding OAP, and perceptions regarding advantages and disadvantages of OAP, journal article publication services, peer review, and re-use. A significant proportion of the articles (mean 58%) published by this group are published gold open access, consistent with the push in Korea towards international impact for their research. Researchers were more positive about the benefits of OAP than they were negative about its disadvantages. Analysis of responses on the basis of gender, and experience in publishing, showed some significant differences in attitudes to some statements.

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