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Current Journals for Health Sciences Librarians
This is an HTML updated version of the article from the
Newsletter to European Health Librarians. 2004 May;67

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Scope Note MeSH Medline The aim of this brief “review” is to provide an update regarding the current journals for health sciences librarians: their presence on the Internet and databases, whether they give the option of SDI or TOC alerts. Bulletins and newsletters will be mentioned without many details. 

  1. BMC-Biomedical Digital Libraries [http://www.bio-diglib.com/]
    Journal for biomedical information professionals, project, will be published by BioMed Central Journal (contact Editor-in-Chief: charles.greenberg@yale.edu).   

  2. EBLIP Evidence Based Library and Information Practice [http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP] open-access, peer-reviewed journal due to begin publication in the spring of 2006

  3. Health Inform
    Australian publication of Health Libraries Inc. Available in print only. Available online sometime in the future on the Health Libraries Inc. web site which is under construction.

  4. Health Information & Libraries Journal  
    Official journal of the Health Libraries Group of the Library Association "Health Information and Libraries Journal" is a peer-reviewed specialist journal which is international in scope. It aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, students and information specialists in libraries,   telecommunications, the computer industry and the health professions to exchange ideas and information within the broad field of health care information and librarianship, encompassing: (1) clinical information, health services and information policies (2) primary and community care (3) consumer health information"
    Indexing information, instructions for authors, table of contents and abstracts are free access, full text is available only by subscription starting with March 2001 - volume 18, issue 1 (previous issues are available online under the former title “Health Libraries Review” and start with the first published issue in 1984). Electronic alerting service by publisher, My NCBI (*) and ILO (**).
    Additional bibliographic information & PubMed access 

  5. Igaku Toshokan  
    Official journal of NPO The Japan Medical Library Association. 
    Table of contents
    (in english) 

  6. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet
    "Professional peer-reviewed journal devoted to locating consumer health information via the Internet. In this newly renamed journal (formerly Health Care on the Internet), librarians and health information providers describe programs and services aimed at helping patients and the general public find the health information they need".
    Indexing information, instructions for authors, table of contents and abstracts are free, full text is available by subscription starting with 2003 - volume 7 issue 1. Electronic alerts by publisher and ILO (**)
    .
    Additional bibliographic information 

  7. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
    "Peer-reviewed professional journal devoted to the access, evaluation, and management of electronic resources in the medical library environment. This journal will be an essential resource for academic medical school libraries, hospital libraries, and other health sciences libraries. The material in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries will complement articles published in Medical Reference Services Quarterly, which highlights the reference and bibliographic instruction aspects of electronic resources"  

    The first issue of this journal is scheduled for Spring 2004.  
    Indexing information, instructions for authors, table of contents and abstracts are free, full text is available by subscription. Electronic alerts by publisher, MyNCBI (*) and ILO (**).
    Additional bibliographic information

  8. Journal of Hospital Librarianship
    "Focuses on the technical and administrative issues that most concern you. Medical librarians will find news and reviews of the latest technologies, as well as practical suggestions and innovative strategies that will improve the hospital/clinical work environment".  
    Indexing information, instructions for authors, table of contents and abstracts
    are free, full text is available by subscription starting with 2001 - volume 1 issue 1. Electronic alerts by publisher and ILO (**)
    .
    Additional bibliographic information

  9. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada (JCHLA/JABSC)
    New name for Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana, electronic only publication. 
    ToC and instructions for authors
    (2004 --).
    Additional bibliographic information 

  10. Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries. Formerly Newsletters to European Health Librarians.
    Free full text 

  11. Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA)
    "International, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly that aims to advance the practice and research knowledge base of health sciences librarianship (formerly Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA)"
    Instructions for authors. Electronic alerts by BioMail (*) and ILO (**)
    .
    Full text is free and available starting with 2002, volume 90, issue 1 (the previous issues are also free access under the title BMLA at starting from 1911, volume 1, issue 1).
    Indexing and additional bibliographic information & PubMed access

  12. Medical Reference Services Quarterly
    "Peer-reviewed journal is an essential working tool for medical and health sciences librarians. For those professionals who provide reference services to health sciences personnel in clinical, educational, or research settings, Medical Reference Services Quarterly covers topics of current interest and practical value in the areas of reference in medicine and related specialties, the biomedical sciences, nursing, and allied health.  
    Indexing information, instructions for authors, table of contents and abstracts
    are free access, full text is available only by subscription starting with 2003 - volume 18 issue 1. Electronic alerts by publisher
    , MyNCBI (*) and ILO (**).  

    Additional bibliographic information
    PubMed access 

    See also:

Bulletins & Newsletters:

Some journals concerning medical informatics and / or medicine on the Internet  

Electronic alerting services:

* MyNCBI [electronic alert by PubMed]
** Informed Librarian Online [monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 275 titles - valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters]

2008-12-19
Benoit Thirion  


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