Article in Protégez-vous on finding health information

As a librarian, I found this list of recommendations as well as the entire article in Protégez-vous on finding health information fairly depressing: There was no mention of libraries or documentation centres as far as I could see! My heart sank.Nos recommandations (no...

A new open access publishing model: PeerJ

Open access (OA) is a popular topic these days: For example, the recent White House Petition which reached 25,000 signers (the number required to get a White House response), recommending that U.S. federal policies require free access to publicly...

Systematic reviews: What is our role?

I had the great opportunity to attend a 2.5 day course at the University of Pittsburgh called Systematic Review Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts for Librarians. As a relatively new « liaison librarian, » the course was not only informative but it also substantially...