Health librarianship - professional journals

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Introduction

See also CHLA/ABSC (Canada), List of Canadian health libraries & Research for librarians - portal

The purpose of this entry is to lead to associations and professional journals relevant to health librarians. In Canada, health librarians typically look for information about their own context of practice. Two examples are the JCHLA/JABSC and the JMLA.

Canadian

American & international links

Major open access and association journals

Health librarians communicate with each other using newsletters, association journals and blogs. Here are some examples in health librarianship.

  1. BMC-Biomedical Digital Libraries - BioMedCentral, open-access journal
  2. EBLIP Evidence Based Library and Information Practice- open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by Canadian librarians
  3. Health Inform - official publication of Australian Health Libraries
  4. Health Information & Libraries Journal - official journal of the Health Libraries Group (HLG); peer-reviewed, international
  5. Igaku Toshokan - official journal of NPO the Japan Medical Library Association.
  6. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet - peer-reviewed journal for consumer health information on the Internet
  7. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries - peer-reviewed journal devoted to access, evaluation, and management of e-resources in medical libraries
  8. Journal of Hospital Librarianship - technical/administrative issues; technology reviews, practical suggestions and innovative strategies to improve hospital/clinical work
  9. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada (JCHLA/JABSC) - formerly Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana (1992 - 2001)
  10. Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries. (Newsletters to European Health Librarians, free).
  11. Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) - International, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly (formerly Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA).
  12. Medical Reference Services Quarterly - peer-reviewed journal for medical and health librarians in clinical, educational or research settings

Bulletins

  1. BMA Library Bulletin (free full text)
  2. Health Information News and Thinking (HINT) - Health Sciences Libraries Group, Ireland
  3. HLG Health Libraries Group Newsletter
  4. Inform - Information for the Management of Healthcare, University of Manitoba
  5. Info-Rx: Newsletter of the Health Sciences Libraries
  6. Interim, magazine of the Scottish Health Information Network - SHINE
  7. Libraries for Nursing and LFN Bulletin
  8. Medizin-bibliothek-information (German) to 2004
  9. MLA News - members-only
  10. Newsletters to European Health Librarians (1998-2004) - continued as Journal for the European Association for Health Information and Libraries
  11. Newsletter of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Northwest Region. See also Dragonfly, the NN/LM PNR blog.
  12. NLM Technical Bulletin
  13. Ontario Health Libraries Association Newsletter
  14. Saab Memorial Medical Library (SML) Newsletter
  15. Newsletters of the Sections of the Medical Library Association (Consumer Connections, National Network)

Medical informatics journals on the Internet

  1. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  2. He@lth Information on the Internet
  3. Health informatics journal
  4. International Journal of Medical Informatics
  5. JAMIA Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  6. JBDC Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
  7. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
  8. JMIR Journal of Medical Internet Research
  9. Medical Informatics & the Internet in Medicine
  10. Medicine on the Net
  11. Methods of Information in Medicine [German]
  12. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
  13. Informed Librarian Online [monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 275 titles]

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