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Copyright in the Health Sciences Literature: A Narrative Review
(Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 2018)Health science educators, researchers, and clinicians are regularly faced with challenges surrounding copyright and fair use. However, little is known about how copyright is addressed in the professional literature. In ... -
Meeting the Challenge of Collocating Metadata: Explore Chicago Collections
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Following the arc of learning: Using syllabi to target instruction in a professional graduate program
(Elsevier, 2018-06-20)This study examines a corpus of syllabi to target program-specific information literacy needs. Examining a graduate program in Urban Planning, the study first identifies specific information literacy needs for the program, ... -
The Scoping Review Method: Mapping the Literature in “Structural Change” Public Health Interventions
(SAGE Research Methods Cases Health, 2017)This case discusses how we used scoping review methodology to map the literature in an emergent area of research, “structural change” public health interventions. Scoping reviews are similar to systematic reviews in both ... -
NExT: creating an interdisciplinary alliance to diminish informational barriers for public health nursing
(WILEY, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2017-09)Background: Public health nurses (PHNs) are challenged in obtaining opportunities to learn evidence-based practice (EBP). An interdisciplinary alliance was created between health sciences librarians and nurse educators to ... -
In Their Own Words: Using First-Year Student Research Journals to Guide Information Literacy Instruction
(John Hopkins University Press, 2018)This action research study explores first-year students’ conceptions of the research process, with a focus on which aspects students find most challenging and how these views can guide stakeholders in developing curricular ... -
Research practices of public health faculty scholars at UIC
(2017)This report presents the results of a study conducted at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) as one of a parallel suite of studies coordinated by Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit research organization providing guidance ... -
The Health System and Policy Implications of Changing Epidemiology for Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancers in the United States From 1995 to 2016
(2017-04-11)Oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers are typically grouped under the general term, "oral cancer." Yet, the incidence of oropharyngeal cancers is increasing in the United States, while the incidence of oral cavity cancers ... -
Understanding difference through dialogue: A first-year experience for college students.
(American Psychological Association, 2016-06)Research (Gurin, Nagda & Zúñiga, 2009) on Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) has primarily focused on student outcomes in traditional semester-long, three-credit courses, documenting the positive impact IGD has on college students’ ... -
“Are you a computer?”: Opening Exchanges in Virtual Reference Shape the Potential for Teaching
(American Library Association, 2016-07)Academic reference librarians frequently work with students who are not aware of their professional roles. In online interactions, a student might not even realize that the librarian is a person. The ways students initiate ... -
Finding alternatives when a major database is gone
(Medical Library Association, 2016-04)QUESTION: What to do when a major database ceases publication? SETTING: An urban, academic health sciences library with four campuses serves a university health sciences system, a college of medicine, and ... -
Information literacy in the lab: Graduate teaching experiences in first-year biology.
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2016)The author interviewed ten graduate teaching assistants leading lab sessions for first-year biology about how they introduce students to scientific literature. Qualitative data analysis of the interview transcripts revealed ... -
"Going Beyond the Data Management Plan: Services and Partnerships" in The Medical Library Association Guide to Data Management for Librarians
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Student bibliographies: charting research skills over time
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016-08-08)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare two bibliography assignments completed after one-shot library instruction to determine which research skills first-year students retain over the course of a ... -
Exploring Faculty Knowledge and Perceptions of Copyright at U.S. Dental Schools: A Pilot Study
(2016-11)The aims of this pilot study were to investigate current copyright training and support provided to faculty at North American dental schools and to examine faculty members’ knowledge and attitudes related to specific ... -
Preservation and Scholarly Communication: The Grand Challenges of Our Time
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Breadth of Coverage, Ease of Use, and Quality of Mobile Point-of-Care Tool Information Summaries: An Evaluation
(JMIR Publications, 2016-10)Background: With advances in mobile technology, accessibility of clinical resources at the point of care has increased. Objective: The objective of this research was to identify if six selected mobile point-of-care tools ... -
Examining the Impact of the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy on the Citation Rates of Journal Articles
(Public Library of Science, 2015-10-08)Purpose: To examine whether National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded articles that were archived in PubMed Central (PMC) after the release of the 2008 NIH Public Access Policy show greater scholarly impact than comparable ... -
The data life cycle applied to our own data.
(Medical Library Association, 2015-01)Increased demand for data-driven decision making is driving the need for librarians to be facile with the data life cycle. This case study follows the migration of reference desk statistics from handwritten to digital ...