Does Academic Culture Support Translational Research?

Translational research: what does it mean?

T HE National Institutes of Health has just announced the creation of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Translational research has become the buzzword in medical research. Research institutes, universities, and even journals are increasingly eager to develop their translational research credentials. So how does ANESTHESIOLOGY fare when it comes to translational research?...

Library-based clinical and translational research support.

Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries

Libraries have long stood on the shifting sands of change. The key to survival has been to understand that change and meet it at the point of need. Starr Hoffman's work provides a road map to that change as academic reference librarians make the shift to academic research support librarians. She emphasizes that the traditional role focused on discovery and instructional services has moved into ...

Academic health sciences library research support.

On September 3, 2003, the Medical Library Association adopted a policy statement on the role of expert searching in health sciences libraries. The policy highlighted the need for more thorough literature searching following the unfortunate death of a healthy research volunteer in a clinical trial that might have been prevented by a more complete literature review [1–3]. In light of this policy,...

Novel Team‐Based Approaches to Advance Academic Translational Research