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Finding Journals that Accept Case Reports Just Got Easier
Jumpstart your search for journals that accept case reports with this new list of over 1,000 journals spanning over 100 specialties. Curated by a team…
MLA Publishes New Guide to Systematic Reviews
Systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses have a vital role in summarizing the literature, exploring gaps in research, prioritizing new research, and providing literature to…
Library Gateways to VA: An Outreach Initiative Between Vermont and Western New Hampshire Public Libraries and the White River Junction VA
Introduction Library Gateways to the VA is an outreach project that partnered the White River Junction VA with over 255 service area public libraries in…
JMLA Author Interview: Stephanie M. Swanberg
Stephanie M. Swanberg is the lead author on the article “A health education outreach partnership between an academic medical library and public library: lessons learned…
Libraries, the Centerpiece of a Public Health Initiative
Libraries are increasingly playing an essential role in our communities as a hub for access to information, support, and opportunity. Because of this, Safe Space…
It’s Never Too Early to Start the Conversation
Yes, we could talk about something more pleasant, but death and dying are an inevitable aspect of our lived human experience. End-of-life decision-making recognizes the…
Participate in APHA; Sewell Stipends due July 16!
Hello librarian friends, The Sewell Stipend pays for librarians to participate virtually in the annual meeting of APHA, the American Public Health Association. You can…
What’s the Scoop on Scoping Reviews?
Introduction Have you come across scoping reviews in your work? Are you being asked to contribute to scoping reviews? If not, you might want to…
Storytelling for Public Health
I lay in bed, turning this way and that. I felt queasy and weak. The bathroom was only a short distance away down the hall,…
Clinical Support: Medical Librarians as Public Information Leaders in a Pandemic: Part 2 of 3
Submitted by Louise McLaughlin, Woman’s Health Sciences Library, Baton Rouge, LA; interviewed by Laurie Schwing, Hub Editor: Clinical Support, MLAConnect Recently, the hospital libraries email…
Innovation & Research Practice: Crisis and Creativity: Stories of Ingenuity from the Emory Libraries
About a month ago, a colleague at Emory University sent an email to a local health sciences library email discussion list inviting participants to attend…
Sewell Stipend Deadline is almost here!
The Sewell Stipend is a professional development resource for librarians who work with public health information and public health workers. The Sewell Stipend supports librarians…
PH/HA Statement: Racism Is a Public Health Crisis
PH/HA Statement: Racism is a Public Health Crisis June 4, 2020 Racism and law enforcement violence present destructive impacts on individuals, communities, and public health.…
Innovation & Research Practice: Let’s Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Locating and Evaluating Existing Systematic and Rapid Reviews on COVID-19 Topics
There has been much discussion over the past few weeks about the deluge of research on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) topics. As we seek to…
London’s Cholera Epidemic and 21st Century America – Strikingly Similar
Recently, I’ve been working on a research project about access to health information during the 19th century London cholera epidemics. My interest in the subject…
Finding World Health Organization documents with the Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS)
The World Health Organization’s bookstore recently suspended its standing order service for libraries in order to transition to a new order processing system. Its website…
Public Health Primary Sources
Posted on behalf of the blog writer, Erin Anthony. As the Public Health and Research Support Librarian for Brown University’s Rockefeller Library, I am always…
ToxNet Alternatives: Occupational Health Resources
I suspect that many PHHA members have already heard that ToxNet is going offline as of December 2019. Some of its many databases/tools will be…