Health librarianship pathfinder

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Introduction

See also Reference services & Top Biomedical Texts, Print & Online II

This pathfinder (or start-here) is a guide to information sources in health librarianship for students, professional librarians and anyone interested in the topic. Its purpose is to provide a starting point for materials that support the study of health libraries and health librarianship. Links are provided to key journals and monographs, international associations, discussion groups and websites. Please add your own links and favourite websites. To browse our in-depth articles on a range of HSL topics, see the wiki index.

• 4 stars denotes librarian-selected, high quality information. Starred sites are great places to begin your research.
• An online or print publication intended to present Canadian information for Canadians

Courses in health librarianship

• LIBR534: Health Information Sources and Services

Literature searching

See also Open search

• E-prints for LIS
• Google scholar
• GoPubMed
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
• MedlinePlus at the National Library of Medicine
• OvidSP Databases (UBC Library)
• PubMed (Medline) at the National Library of Medicine
• PubMedCentral Canada]
• Scirus

Systematic review searching

See also What is systematic review searching?

• BETs Search Strategies
• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
• McMaster University HIRU - Search Hedges
• PubMed - Systematic Reviews Subset Strategy
• InterTASC ISSG Search Filter Resource

Associations

See also Health librarianship - professional journals and Medical Library Association (MLA)

• Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC)
• Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC)
• European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL)
• International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Section of Health and Biosciences Libraries
• Health Libraries Association of BC (HLABC)
• CILIP - Health Libraries Group (U.K.)
• Medical Library Association (U.S.)
• Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA (PNCMLA)
• SLA's Biomedical and Life Sciences Division

Key monographs

• Garrison-Morton medical bibliography
• Boorkman Jo Anne, Huber Jeffrey T, Roper Fred W. Introduction to reference sources in the health sciences. 2004
• Booth A, Brice A. Evidence Based Practice for Information Professionals, 2004.
• Introduction to health sciences librarianship 2008 ed.
• MLA's consumer health reference service handbook
• MLA's guide to managing health care libraries
• Reference and information services in health sciences libraries
• Guardians of medical knowledge : the genesis of MLA
• John Shaw Billings, creator of the National Medical Library and its catalogue, first director of the New York Public Library
• Medical reference works 1679-1966 : a selected bibliography
• Thompson, LL. Bibliographic management of information resources in health sciences libraries

Associations - Canada

• CHLA/ABSC - Canada
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
• Open access in Canada

Associations - United States

• Medical Library Association (U.S.)
• National Library of Medicine - US
• Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA (PNCMLA)
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) - Pacific Northwest Region

International

• Librarians Without Borders - MLA
• IFLA - Health and Biosciences Libraries Section

Core journals

See also Health librarianship - professional journals

• BMC-Biomedical Digital Libraries
• Health Information and Libraries Journal (U.K.)
• Journal of the CHLA/ABSC
• Hypothesis - Research Section MLA
• Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
• Journal of the Medical Library Association
• Medical Reference Services Quarterly (U.S.)

Blogs

• Bloggers in health & medicine
• LIS Wiki - List of medical library blogs

Wikis

• EBM Librarian wiki
• Google's Knol
• McGill Health Library - Global Health wiki
• Medpedia project
• HLWIKI Canada
• Selected list of medical wikis

Listservs

• CANMEDLIB - Canadian Medical Libraries Listserv
• MEDLIB-L
• Other MLA E-mail lists

See also

• Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
• CHLA/ABSC (Canada)

• Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada

• European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL)

• Journal

• IFLA - Section of Health and Biosciences Libraries
• Health Libraries Group (U.K.)

• Newsletter
• Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ)

• MLA - Medical Library Association (U.S.)

• JMLA PubMedCentral
• Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA (PNCMLA)

• SLA's Biomedical and Life Sciences Division