Health Sciences Library Research

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Responding to Change: Reinventing Librarian Identities in the Age of Research Mandates
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018-11-02) Glusker, Ann; Exner, Nina
This chapter outlines libraries’ (and librarians’) changing identities in the new world of research mandates from funders, institutions, and publishers. As libraries respond to the demands of these mandates on their users at the individual, departmental, and institutional levels, they need to revise their approaches to relationship building and user engagement, as well as maintain flexibility in the face of changing roles and skill requirements. This chapter will (1) outline the changing scholarly ecosystem; (2) summarize major terms and concepts to understand the process of producing research outputs; (3) discuss the perspectives of the major players in the research enterprise; (4) present some of the challenges that research mandates and the changing research environment have brought to libraries; and finally (5) review ways in which libraries have successfully addressed them. The focus here is on the academic research setting, although many of the strategies outlined can be equally applicable in both non-academic research and non-research funding contexts.
Virtual Reality in Academic Health Sciences Libraries: A Primer
(2018-09-25) Moore, Michael T.; Bardyn, Tania P.; Garrett, Adam; Ruhl, Deric; Meerovitch, Gili
The Translational Research and Information Lab (TRAIL) opened in the University of Washington Health Sciences Library (HSL) in December 2016, transforming existing library space into an innovative and data-driven research environment. Clinical researchers are using it to accelerate innovation in health care using translational methods and the latest technology. The innovation space has six 55-inch digital panels that form a data wall. Semicircular “campfire”-style seating and sound-dampening floors allow for focused discussions. The vision is to provide a collaborative space where researchers and clinicians can meet to develop ideas, test concepts, and explore possibilities. A research scientist from the UW Center for Cardiovascular Innovation contacted the TRAIL librarian for permission to test VR on the data wall. Through this successful interaction, a case was made for VR to be used in HSL. A data wall displaying a patient heart, for example, can show a team of health care providers what a cardiovascular surgeon will see in the operating room.
Using Quality Improvement Tools to Redefine a Clinical Librarianship Program: a Case Study
(Journal of Hospital Librarianship - Taylor & Francis, 2018-02) Chu, Frances; Ball, Andrea
University of Washington (UW) Medicine is a large hospital system in Seattle, WA. Historically, the UW Health Sciences Library (HSL) has had one clinical librarian to support the organization. However, after the clinical librarian retired in 2015, 1.5 FTE clinical librarians were hired to support UW Medicine. This paper details process improvement strategies being implemented at UWHSL to align and modernize the library’s clinical librarianship program given the significant changes occurring in healthcare. This case study will examine the use of qualitative research techniques for gathering information and the use of Value Engineering tools to analyze results. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IkIqMXtmnnbhjK4RFAUR/full (50 author reprints)
Developing an Educational Role in a Clinical and Translational Science Institute
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) Louden, Diana Nelson
Research Practices and Support Needs of Public Health Scholars at University of Washington
(2017-10) Safranek, Sarah; Gleason, Ann Whitney
This report summarizes findings of a study conducted by the University of Washington Health Sciences Library, for the national project Research Support Services: Public Health, initiated by Ithaka S+R. The study explored University of Washington public health scholars’ research methods and research support needs, the challenges researchers face in conducting and sharing research output, and researchers’ current outlooks on developments, trends and challenges in the field of public health. The goal of the project is to inform the library’s decisionmaking and development of services supportive of public health researchers at University of Washington. In this report, we discuss study methods and findings, describe key trends identified through analysis of the twelve interviews conducted with researchers at the University of Washington, and outline library service recommendations for further exploration.
An Exploratory Classification Scheme of Health Sciences Disciplines: For use in bibliometric analyses of scholarly output
(https://grants.nih.gov/training/phs2271.pdf, 2017-09) Louden, Diana Nelson; Rich, Joanne
Classification Scheme of Health Sciences Disciplines
Quantifying Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Health Sciences: A Bibliometric Analysis Using Author Affiliations
(2016-04-19) Louden, Diana Nelson; Rich, Joanne; Amory, John K.
Develop a bibliometric method to quantify cross-disciplinary research activity.
An Invitation for Informationists: Joining a Data Harmonization Research Project Already in Progress
(2017-08) Rich, Joanne; Louden, Diana Nelson
Through an Administrative Supplement awarded by the National Institute on Aging, two librarians joined an Alzheimer’s disease research team to make the products of their data harmonization research more accessible and useful to the scientific community. Joining this team gave the librarians the opportunity to find practical ways to implement abstract principles like transparency, discoverability, and reproducibility. Here we make our data sharing framework more tangible by comparing research products to meals: If research is like cooking, sharing is like taking it to a potluck

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