Hi #medlibs -- some positivity for you. For years I've been offering trainings around graduation time about practicing evidence-based public health without an academic library.
In past years, the people who showed up were mostly university staff who also teach at other local universities, wanting info about getting around paywalls for their students at less-resourced institutions. Very few new grads!
"All of the artwork for this podcast series has been created with a generative AI image-to-image tool! The prompt for this episode was 'open and free science available to all communities as an abstract painting.'"
Does this make anyone more likely to subscribe to the podcast? #medlibs
When an author uses a transformative agreement to publish #OA without themselves paying an APC, is it appropriate to say "The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article"?
If not, what should they say in the funding/sponsorship section? #Scholcomm@academicchatter#medlibs
Important #HICPAC news - for everyone in the US who wants safer healthcare, and especially for #medlibs who want to follow along as the evidence to guidance to practice cycle happens
Khalil, H., Campbell, F., Danial, K., Pollock, D., Munn, Z., Welsh, V., Saran, A., Hoppe, D., & Tricco, A. C. (2024). Advancing the methodology of mapping reviews: A scoping review. Research Synthesis Methods, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1694
I guess the fact that I recognize fewer than half of the documents that mapping review authors cited as relevant methodological guidance means that I need to read the paper ROTFL
I read some PICO Portal documentation yesterday because a library user's friend really likes it, and I have questions. #3 is my top priority. Any insight? Thanks!
Mellifont, D. (2023). A rapid review informing an assessment tool to support the inclusion of lived experience researchers in #disability research. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 12(3), 86–109. Retrieved from https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/1035
They created a "Disability research inclusion of lived experience assessment tool" that I'm going to share with some stakeholders on my campus
@danslerush Hi #medlibs@medlibs let's do this infographic (scroll up), but for the resources we offer library users.
Actually -- end users are bound to follow the terms of the contract that the institution negotiated and signed, right? But how are they supposed to know what those terms are?
I don't even know what the contracts say, between my employer and Wolters Kluwer, or my employer and Clarivate, or my employer and Elsevier.
I have a paper I'd like to preprint that's basically a very elaborate data sharing case study, written by mostly nursing researchers & a couple of us at QDR. medrxiv won't take it because it's not 'clinical research'. Doesn't seem like a great fit for socarxiv given subject area. Other ideas? #OpenScience#medlibs
Grey lit can be hard to find.... If you were doing a lit search about SARS-COV-2 transmission modality, or PPE, or infection control, would your typical sources and techniques surface this?
Our new short #documentary, "With Every Breath," follows patients and a doctor navigating the fallout of the massive #recall of #Philips breathing machines.
@ProPublica
Hi #medlibs, do you do liaison work with medical device people? They will be interested (or they should be at least) in this documentary above, and Propublica's written coverage too. Scroll up 🙏
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We spend sooooo much time on govt websites like PubMed and NIEHS Lit Portal and NAL - if we were using Firefox instead of Chrome/Safari, lots of benefits:
In 2021, WHO began requiring that all WHO-authored and WHO-funded journal articles must be " published in an open-access journal or on an open-access platform."
They want authors to use journals that are indexed in DOAJ and that deposit the version of record in PMC.
Hi #medlibs and #EBM mavens -- to what extent have metaresearchers studied clinical practice guidelines/pathways created by companies such as "AIM Specialty Health" aka "Elevance Health" aka "Carelon Medical Benefits Management" -- companies that contract with health insurers to review appeals of coverage denials?
And, even if they are reading it as a methods example, they can't avoid learning about:
the CONTEXT, that indoor air quality is important re infectious disease transmission
the CONTENT, that governmental bodies' lackluster discharge of their duties led to (I am choosing this emotive but IMO accurate phrase, not the authors) the "social murder" of people in LTC and other congregate living settings.
(which surprised me, because I'm pretty sure that Critical Public Health is a hybrid journal, and definitely one with APCs, because the editors are leaving their commerical publisher to create a new diamond OA "Journal of Critical Public Health, and this doesn't seem like the kind of work that would be obviously supported by a grant)
BUT it's not in PubMed, so if you want it, you'll have to go looking.
MAYBE you should just add it to your citation manager now, to save time later ;)
Katz, A., Li, T., James, Ll., Siegel, J., & O’Campo, P. (2023). Systematically omitting indoor air quality: sub-standard guidance for shelters, group homes and long-term care in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical Public Health, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2023.2262736