Mark E. Funk, AHIP, Medical Library Association President 2007–2008

Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2017–2018

Meeting Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, for the first time at the 2010 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Washington, DC, was very memorable. That was the meeting that cardboard cutouts of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted everyone at the top of the Hilton Washington escalator. It was also the meeting that Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. made an appearance at...

فرایند دریافت E- Mark

با گسترش روزافزون صنعت حمل‌و‌نقل درجهان و ارتقای استانداردها، تدوین و اجرای استانداردهای بین‌المللی، یک امر ضروری به‌نظر می‌رسد. E- Mark یک مجموعه قانون‌های هماهنگ بین‌المللی برای خودرو و قطعه‌های آن است که تمامی تولیدکنندگان وسیله‌های نقیله و قطعه‌ها ملزم به رعایت آن هستند. تولیدکنندگان تایر نیز از این امر مستثنی نیستند و باید برای تایرهای خود این مجوز را دریافت کنند. در این مقاله روش دریافت E...

World Medical Association's tainted president, Ketan Desai.

Walter E. Massey: president-elect of AAAS.

WA ALTER E. Massey began his academic career as a freshman at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1954, after completing the tenth grade in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He had never heard ofphysics and had never taken a course in chemistry, trigonometry, or advanced algebra. After 2 weeks, he asked his mother to take him home. Fortunately, his mother did not listen to him, and Massey perseve...

Introducing altmetrics to the Journal of the Medical Library Association

Most readers of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) are well aware of the inappropriateness of evaluating individual journal articles by their journals’ impact factors. This is because, among other reasons, a journal’s citations are not evenly distributed across its articles. Rather, a small proportion (20%) of articles often accounts for most (80%) of a journal’s citations [1...