Call for papers: IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section open session
Colleagues from around the world are invited to submit an abstract for consideration for the HBS Open Session:
Health and Biosciences Libraries Section
Aim and Scope of the Session
It is hoped that papers will cover a wide range of areas - for example:
- Partnerships and collaborations that support free access to health information.
- Health libraries/health information professionals role in promoting open and / or equitable access.
- How health information is disseminated to the general public?
- How useful is free health information? Is it evidence based?
- How evidence based information is incorporated into freely available health information?
- Is there a decline in the use of health information that is not freely available e.g. library subscriptions?
- How do consumers prefer to access health information e.g. mobile devices, magazines, newspapers?
- What role health information literacy may have in health information?
Important dates: ...
Submissions are to be submitted before February 1st 2010 by email to:
Paivi Pekkarinen
National Library of Health Sciences
Haartmaninkatu 4
FI-00290 Helsinki, Finland
My source:
orcid.org/0000-0002-0192-8965