Medical Library Association

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...

The Medical Library Association Guide to Data Management for Librarians

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...

Osler Medical Library

spontaneous generation of organisms, the work of Pasteur, and the two special Congress lectures, 'Recherche scientifique et personnalit6' (by Marcel Florkin) and 'Mathematics, music and medical science' (by Alistair Crombie). The papers were delivered in simultaneous sessions and while there was comparatively little overlap of biology and chemistry, this, unfortunately, was not so for some of t...

The medical library.

MY pleasant duty is to welcome the new students to their first term in hospital and to wish them every success at this exciting time in their career. They have one great advantage that I and others of my vintage did not have, and that is an excellent medical library close to the wards. This gives them unrivalled opportunity to examine patients and then to compare their observations with what th...