Managing a Biomedical Library’s Instruction Program: Redefining Scope

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) library instruction program provides training services to staff, clinicians, and researchers across NIH and several Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) operating divisions. The audience, training needs, and training topics are diverse and constantly changing. The NIH library has developed several new services and class topics to meet the needs of its NIH and HHS communities. Context, strategies, and future directions for the NIH library instruction program are described.     

Preparing for Practice: Strengthening Third-Year Medical Students’ Awareness of Point-of-Care Resources

This column describes the development and implementation of a responsive library course designed to train third-year medical students as they begin their clerkships. The course design consisted of a brief face-to-face introduction during third-year orientation and an online course developed in Canvas, an online learning management system. The objective of the course was to not only introduce students to the resources but also to teach them how to effectively use those resources at the point-of-care. Students evaluated the course to assess the overall effectiveness of the instruction. Course development and content, feedback provided by students, as well as suggestions for improvement are discussed.     

OER evaluation as a means of teaching information literacy in individual and small group settings

ABSTRACT

Open education resources represent a great opportunity to reduce textbook costs, but many of them have not been evaluated for quality. Librarians and former students in an introduction to engineering course collected and evaluated open education resources to supplement the course textbook in future semesters. Both searching for and evaluating these resources created opportunities for the librarians to evaluate information literacy skills of these students and to provide instruction to improve these skills.     

遵循国际出版规律 遵守国内出版规定——ISMTE第2届亚太会议综述(Ⅱ)

中国学术期刊出版在遵守国内出版规定的同时,也要遵循国际出版规律.《遵循国际出版规律遵守国内出版规定——ISMTE 第2 届亚太会议综述(I) 》综述了此次会议的国际期刊品牌打造及编辑团队建设、JATS&BITS、ORCID、Crossref 4 个会议议题.本文针对会议余下诸如中国学术期刊出版的国际化、Altmetrics、Open Access、Peer Review 4 个会议议题进行梳理、分析和总结.通过会议综述(Ⅰ) 、(Ⅱ),希望国内学术期刊在借鉴国际先进出版经验的同时,也要务实提高自身竞争力,加快走出去的步伐.     

开放存取期刊遴选实践研究

建设开放存取期刊集成平台、提供开放存取期刊"一站式"服务、资助作者发表开放存取期刊论文等都需要对期刊进行遴选。文章以DOAJ和GoOA为对象,对开放存取期刊集成平台的期刊遴选进行调研;以杜克大学、麻省理工学院、隆德大学、卡耐基梅隆大学为对象,对开放存取期刊论文APC资助的期刊遴选进行调研,分析总结开放存取期刊遴选的原则及特点,以期为其他主体、其他用途的期刊遴选提供借鉴。     

Health science libraries in Sweden: new directions,expanding roles

Librarians in Sweden are facing huge challenges in meeting the demands of their organisations and users. This article looks at four key areas: coping with open science/open access initiatives; increasing demands from researchers for support doing systematic reviews; understanding user experiences in Swedish health science libraries; and the consequences of expanding roles for recruitment and continuing professional development. With regard to changing roles, there is an increasing shift from the generalist towards the expert role. The authors raise the issue as to how to prepare those new to the profession to the changing environment of health science libraries.     

Nullis in Verba: Advancing Research through Transparency and Openness

Nullis in verba was chosen as the motto of the Royal Society, as it embodied the culture of transparency and collaboration that were the hallmarks of the Royal Society and of the scientific method it promoted. Communication, using the tools of the day, was essential to this community of scientists as they created and shared new knowledge. Almost three hundred years later, libraries continue to advance principles relating to the importance of collaboration and transparency. This two-part article series, published jointly in International Information and Library Review and Technical Services Quarterly explores notions of transparency and collaboration in research and how these ideas are impacting the world of librarianship – from information creation, organization and access perspectives.     

Tools and Principles for Effective Online Library Instruction: Andragogy and Undergraduates

The library literature evaluating the efficacy of online tutorial methods and delivery tools is a valuable resource for librarians looking for information to inform their choices for developing asynchronous online instruction. This literature, however, examines a wide variety of delivery tools, methods, and student populations. As a result, it is difficult to draw definitive conclusions about any one tutorial tool or method. This article compares selected research and concludes that the consensus in the literature suggests that applying adult learning principles to library tutorials has a larger impact on effective online instruction than the individual tool.