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Information Discovery
Finding Quality Medical
Resources Online
Jacque Doyle and Lindsey Jacque Doyle and Lindsey GreeneGreene
Medical Librarianship as a Profession
What do we do?A medical librarian, sometimes known as a health information specialist…
– links people to health and medical information
– creates useful information systems
– teaches people how to use information to improve health care.
Where do we work?• Hospitals, medical schools, public health
departments, university libraries, public libraries, consumer health libraries, and more…
We work with:• Physicians, researchers, nurses,
educators, administrators, student, faculty and more…
Medical Librarianship as a Profession
What does the job require?• Bachelors in a field of your interest• Master’s Degree in library or information
science.• For more information:
– http://sirls.arizona.edu/KR/index (Knowledge River)– http://sirls.arizona.edu/node/885 (UA Graduate
Library School)– http://www.ala.org/ala/educationcareers/careers/
index.cfm (American Lib Assn)
Medical Librarianship as a Profession
Overall PlanJune 11 Extreme Googling for medical
information
June 30 Finding Quality Medical Information
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Objectives• Online Resources
–MEDLINE/PubMed• Register for your MyNCBI Account• To find at least 3 examples of useful
and quality information on your topic• To be able to say WHY what you
found is useful and of high quality
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PubMed (MEDLINE)• Over 16 million references (1949 –
Present)• 5,200 journals, 37 languages • 2,000 to 4,000 refs are added every day• Increasingly includes links to full-text• Access to citations and abstracts is
always free; however, full text is not Create your MYNCBI account first!
Getting Started with PubMed
• Create your MyNCBI account (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/register/ ), and sign in to it
• Create a filter or two
• Run a search
• Save, download or email your results
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Search 2 of the following resources
for your topic…1. Google/Google Images2. Advanced Google3. Medline Plus (consumer oriented)4. PubMed (free database)
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Select 1 or 2 to describe…• How many did you retrieve?• What is its title?• Who sponsors the page? • What is its URL?• If published, where was it published?
– What is the name of the book or journal?
• Who are its authors?• Is its date noted?
1. Use PubMed and Login to your MyNCBI account first
2. Use MedlinePlus (www.medlineplus.gov) to find general and high quality health information!
3. If you use Google, try Advanced search or Google Scholar to narrow/widen your scope. And be SELECTIVE!
a) Remember that .gov, .edu and .org sites are often good indicators of the quality and reliability of website content.
b) BE CRITICAL: look for these statements on all websites: the About Page, a list of sponsors and advisors and a statement of purpose.
c) Use Google to find images and videos about a topic as well as information. Don’t forget to cite what you use.
d) Make use of social networking sites when appropriate.
Key Points to Remember
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• Did we Did we forgetforget anything? anything?• Any lingering Any lingering questionsquestions or confusion? or confusion?• OtherOther??
