About HLWIKI Canada
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IntroductionSee also Basic editing commands and HLWIKI Canada Advisory New domain & other newsIn 2010, we obtained the rights to the domain hlwiki.ca. We endorse the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Non-Commercial 2.5 License HLWIKI Canada was originally created in 2006 as a tool to support LIBR 534: Health Information Sources and Services at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) at the University of British Columbia. The wiki is one part of using interactive, collaborative social software in our classes to encourage discussion with and between our students (ie. Mediawiki). This wiki, however, is not the exclusive domain of students taking our course. In fact, we encourage all professional health librarians to participate. Creative Commons license The HLWIKI Canada Advisory supports the Creative Commons principles of sharing and collaboration (ie. copyleft). We endorse the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Non-Commercial 2.5 License which allows others to distribute, remix, tweak and build on our work as long as they credit us for its creation. This is an accommodating license in the Creative Commons but requires attribution when quoting from the wiki. Citing the wikiEach article can be cited as written anonymously, or by the curators, or signed:
http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Web_2.0
http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php?title=Web_2.0 Here's a more detailed example:
Each article maintains a history of all revisions, accessible via the 'history' page. A history of page revisions is of interest in its own right and provides a window into the living processes of peer review and the progress of ideas hidden behind the scenes in traditional publications. Some revisions may well become classics, or seminal. Health librarians & information retrievalHealth librarians are the acknowledged experts in information retrieval, but we need better ways to share this expertise with each other - a major reason why this wiki has come into being. Our objective is to build a health sciences librarianship wiki with an international perspective, but also to emphasize issues affecting practice in Canada. For example, we will focus on expert searching to support the development of systematic reviews in medicine, and searching for the grey literature. (Here are some other subjects covered.) The final project for our students will be to work solo, or in groups, to write a major paper for the field; we encourage the use of this wiki to brainstorm ideas. By providing a forum for best practice for health librarians, and other information professionals, more collaborative work can be initiated. LIS students are encouraged to add, create or edit entries - and, not just our students (any taking health libraries courses in other jurisdictions). We believe this open-model will more accurately reflect the "wisdom of the field" and bring significant value to the wiki's knowledge-base. Canadian contextThis wiki is envisioned as a place where Canadian health librarians can share information in context, because we lack a coherent knowledge-base to support us in our field. Where appropriate, each article will provide a section entitled the Canadian context. Librarian experts across Canada (and within CHLA/ABSC (Canada) for example) should feel free to contribute to the wiki. The forum is an ideal place to evaluate new databases; to discuss case studies in information retrieval; review health and library technologies; the latest thinking in academic and health facilities' accreditation; evidence-based practice, systematic reviews, qualitative research, teaching - so, the possibilities are infinite. Finally, Canadian perspectives are very much appreciated, but by no means the only ones needed. We hope our American, British and Australian colleagues in particular will provide their input to give the wiki an international perspective. For information about navigating and editing this wiki, consult the User's Guide. Before editing, please read our editing policy, guidelines about how to write a great article, and how to wiki. All wikipedians should be familiar with entries in the help section. Follow these guidelines to ensure that your entry will not be removed. Part of wiki-ing well is reading well: please, do your part to read entries critically. Entries that do not come with "sources consulted" (links to books, or web sites in the references) will be considered invalid, and removed. The nature of health librarians' work - even in the digital age - is still bibliographic. |
