The Predatory Journals: The Dandelion of Biomedical Research
For years I have complained about predatory publishers found in PubMed. The publishers entry point is through PMC. Articles submitted to PMC are searchable and findable using the PubMed interface DESPITE being from a journal that is NOT indexed in MEDLINE.
Librarians and very savvy researchers might know the distinction, but the vast majority of the people using PubMed do not know or care. If it is found in PubMed then it they believe it has passed some sort of litmus test. Librarians, ask yourself, how many times have you done a long complicated search in PubMed and then looked at the journals to try and weed out pred...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - November 5, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Everyone Wants to do a Systematic Review
It isn’t your imagination, more and more people are writing and publishing systematic reviews. In a recent research letter from JAMA Internal Medicine, Assessment of Publication Trends of Systematic Reviews and Randomized Clinical Trials, 1995 to 2017, the authors noted the rate of growth in published systematic reviews was ginormous. I know ginormous is not a technical term and the authors would not use it in a publication like JAMA Internal Medicine, but when the rate of growth is 4676% I think the word ginormous is appropriate.
The systematic review is the new little black dress on the publishing runway, everyb...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - October 1, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
I ’m a Different Librarian Now
I first became a medical librarian 20 years ago. I was bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to learn everything I could about medical librarianship. Naturally over the 20 years I changed as a librarian, I became more confident, specialized in certain aspects of medical librarianship…essentially evolved.
However, I think the biggest change that I have experienced is the change in my librarian-ness when I became director of my library. I remember when I was hired I was told I will need to learn to let go of some things because the things I needed to do as director would fill those spots. Intellectually I understood th...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - September 19, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
We Don ’t Understand How Our Users Find Information
I had the unique pleasure to be the moderator for the McGovern Lecture at this year’s Medical Library Association Meeting. You must login w/ your paid meeting registration to watch. If you didn’t go to the meeting you can get a virtual registration to watch (scroll down to econference rates)
The McGovern Lecture traditionally is one person who give a lecture on a topic of importance to health sciences librarianship. This year the lecture featured 4 speakers (an Academic Hospitalist, a Professor of Physical Therapy, a Family Medicine doctor, and a Director of Nursing Research) all speaking about how they find...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - May 23, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
RA21 Hospitals Library Working Group & Survey
When RA21 was brought to my attention I was concerned because it was coming from a lot of publishers and vendors familiar with their world and the world of large academia but completely unfamiliar with the medical and hospital world.
In my post Medlibs Needs RA21 on Their RADAR, I briefly described RA21 and some of the concerns I had with moving towards this method of authentication and I was extremely concerned that the people talking about it hadn’t the faintest clue about library resources, usage, and IT in the hospital and academic medical world.
While I still have a lot of concerns about RA21 I am pleased to ann...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - February 12, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Librarians and Publishers Working Together: MLA InSight Summit 2
The second MLA InSight Summit was held in Chicago in September. I am on the Insight committee, the group that is working to put on a good program and produce deliverables to both librarians and publishers. I also was the moderator for the September summit. (Gabe Rios moderated the first one and Jerry Perry is going to moderate the third summit.)
The summits are intended to be a space where librarians and key figures in the publishing and vendor world work together to try understand users (researchers, clinicians, students, nurses, etc.). It is not a place to talk about pricing, sales, or budget blaming. It is a place...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - January 31, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Annual Meeting Journals and Books Library Profession Other Medical Library Stuff Research Source Type: blogs
Your Cell Phone and Searching PubMed: Full Text May Not Work
Wow time flies when you are having fun, or staring at the screen of your cell phone. Did you know it has been over 10 years since the first iPhone was released?
According to an article in Computerworld “Nine of 10 healthcare systems plan significant investments in smartphones and secure unified communications over the next 12-18 months.” (April 4, 2018) More and more hospitals systems are providing cell phones to their care givers and integrating their usage into their workflow (access the EHR, lab results, pharmacy orders, etc.) The cell phone is the individual’s portable computer. An older (2013) re...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - January 15, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Apps Medline PubMed SmartPhones Technology Source Type: blogs
