Health librarianship

Source: National Medical Librarians Month Are you interested in contributing to HLWIKI International – hlwiki.ca? contact: dean.giustini@ubc.ca To browse other articles on a range of HSL topics, see the A-Z index. Last Update 19 June 2013 Introduction See also Associations | Finding health information for British Columbians | Health libraries | Reference services | Subject librarian 2.0 | What health librarians do This pathfinder or start-here is a guide to information sources in health librarianship for students, professional librarians and anyone interested in the issues that affect the practice of health (or medical) librarianship. Its purpose is to provide a starting point for materials; 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 PubMed Alternative Interfaces Associations See also Health librarianship - professional journals | 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. Brettle A, Urquhart C. Changing roles and contexts for health library and information professionals. London: Facet Publishing, 2012. 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) Conference Board of Canada. Who's doing what in the Canadian health system: an inventory of research organizations, 2012. 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.) Medical Libraries Month See Medical Libraries Month Blogs Bloggers in health & medicine LIS Wiki - List of medical library blogs Wikis EBM Librarian wiki 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 Internships MLA Health Sciences Library Internships 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 Association of British Columbia (HLABC) 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