Caucus News: Book Review
Editor’s Note: Republished and edited with permission from the September 2019 Consumer Connections, volume 35, issue 3, page 6.Elaine Birchall and Suzanne Cronkwright. Conquer the…
Expert Searching: PRESSForum for Peer Review of Search Strategies
Submitted by Rachel Couban, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (IPRC), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; edited by Christy Tyson Recently, a…
MLA October Webinar: Find the Light in a Grey Literature Search!
Being asked to do a grey literature search does not have to darken your mood. If you know how to identify the most valuable types…
Expert Searching: Converting an Ovid MEDLINE Search to PubMed in 10 Easy Steps
Submitted by Helena VonVille, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; edited by Christy Tyson I recently signed up for the “Expert Searching”…
Expert Searching: What Do Swiflet Bird Nests and Prolonged Bleeding Have in Common?
A searching experience submitted by Elizabeth Stellrecht, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; edited by Christy Tyson The Background Recently, a patient at…
Expert Searching: Living Evidence and Living Systematic Reviews: What You Need to Know
Submitted by Robin Featherstone, Cochrane Editorial and Methods Department, and Steve McDonald, Cochrane Australia; edited by Christy Tyson Introduction You may have been asked recently…
Expert Searching: Reaching for That Brass Ring
As a mid-career librarian, I recently made the move from general education to higher education, leveraging my first degree and career in clinical and instructional…
FYI: Laughter
Laughter is medicine, right? A source for vibrancy, pep, and well-being, agreed? Sources across the gamut of communication tend to think so… and say so.…
FYI: Stress
Do you go home unable to forget or leave at work: the confrontations, contagions, constraints the consternations, contentions, condemnations the conundrums, consternations, convictions any or…
Expert Searching: My Experience at NLM Working on the Genetics Home Reference
In March 2017, I had the honor of working at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). I was given a tour of the clinical hospital…
Expert Searching: Health Care Professionals Work to a Set of Standards: Shouldn’t We?
Submitted by Brooke Ballantyne Scott, Jackie MacDonald, Susan Baer, Ashley Farrell, AHIP, Marcus Vaska, Pat Lee, and Danielle Rabb, Canadian Search Standards Working Group Health…
Expert Searching: Why Don’t Simple Searches [Always] Work?
Edited by Melanie Norton Many researchers and doctors search a database as if it were a medical Google. Using a simple search that relies on…
Expert Searching: How “Healthy” Is Your Search For Health Promotion Evidence?
Edited by Melanie Norton Healthy People 2020 If you are searching for health promotion evidence, Healthy People 2020, a national health promotion program to improve…
Expert Searching: Fear and Loathing in Grey Literature Searching: A (Not So) Savage Journey to the Heart of a Health Librarian’s Dream*
* With apologies to Hunter S. Thompson Edited by Melanie Norton We were somewhere in the middle of a ClinicalTrials.gov search when the tea began…
Expert Searching: Can Learning PubMed Be…Fun?
Submitted by Robin O’Hanlon and Rebecca Snyder, Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; edited by Melanie Norton Are you…
Expert Searching: Animal Experimentation, Compliance, and Literature Searching
Submitted by Melissa Funaro and Kate Nyhan, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP According to the Animal Welfare…
Expert Searching: Strategies for Locating Resident Education Information in PubMed
Submitted by Anna Krampl and Carolann Lee Curry, Skelton Medical Library, Mercer University, Macon, GA; edited by Melanie Norton Locating comprehensive references related to residency…
Best Practices: Retractions: An Annual Update on Ethical Misconduct in Research and Publishing
Submitted by Kelly Evans, Library, and Frank Houghton, Department of Public Health and Health Administration, Eastern Washington University–Spokane “To make a deliberate falsification for personal…
Expert Searching: Cancer Stage Searching
Edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) defines NEOPLASM STAGING as “methods which attempt to express in replicable terms the extent of the…
Expert Searching: Going Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit
Submitted by Rebecca O’Kelly Davis, Jennifer Ann Wilson Dental Library, University of Southern California–Los Angeles; edited by Melanie Norton As a teaching librarian, I am…