by Rob Penfold | Nov 6, 2024 | News
We need your help! (for just a few minutes …)
We are updating the ALIA HLA Competencies (2018) to reflect current and likely future requirements for the specialist health librarian and health library technician workforce, and to ensure they are compatible with the ALIA Framework of Skills, Knowledge and Ethics for the LIS workforce (2024).
This 3 minute survey aims to understand awareness and use of both documents by health librarians and health library technicians wherever they work, as well as anyone (e.g. educators) who may have an interest in this workforce group.
It would be great if you can submit your response by 2nd Dec 2024.
Please forward to anyone you think may be interested.
Survey link: https://forms.office.com/r/LFazR4DNCd
On behalf of HLA, thank you for your input.
Ann Ritchie
Project Leader, HLA Competencies Review 2024-25
annritchie@yahoo.com
by Rob Penfold | Oct 25, 2024 | Events
Happening soon at a Australian unfriendly viewing time, but can watch later at a more convenient time up to 30 days post-event
https://instats.org/seminar/identifying-unpublished-clinical-trial-d5
This workshop provides an overview of identifying clinical trials and trial results for systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses. It covers sources such as trials / trials results registers, regulatory agency sources, and other novel resources. Participants will learn how to search the above sources, how to manage search results and report their searches.
For this course, we are partnering with Instats, an organization that provides training and expert support / consultancy, as well as open access to research networks, forums and job opportunities. An official Instats certificate of completion will be provided at the conclusion of the course
The course fee is 216 GBP, 259 EUR, 280 USD, 393 AUD or 1,991 CNY
by Rob Penfold | Oct 23, 2024 | Events
🎦 Watch Recording (Passcode: &R&7CZIQ)
HLA Lunchtime Session
🕐 When: 7 November, 2024 1pm – 2pm AESDT
👫 Presenters: Julie Brown – Covidence; Cassandra Gorton – Monash Health
💲 Cost: Free
🌏 Location: Zoom
https://alia-org-au.zoom.us/j/87053060189?pwd=3zOUVYtCpGjkz09daElV9EaTvY3FJ2.1
Meeting ID: 870 5306 0189 / Passcode: 843323
Covidence is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to streamline the systematic review process. In this webinar Julie Brown, a consultant systematic reviewer from Covidence, will explain how Covidence can support the production of high-quality systematic and other literature reviews through:
● Workflow management, collaboration and administrator oversight
● Screening processes including automation and machine learning
● Customisable data extraction tools
● User-friendly resources including the Knowledge Base, Academy and downloadable resources such as e-books.
Cassandra Gorton, Manager, Access and Discovery at Monash Health will provide her ‘real-world’ experiences of using Covidence and how Monash Health get the most value from this resource. Cassandra will also demonstrate the Covidence integration with LibKey Nomad.
by Rob Penfold | Oct 2, 2024 | Events
✍ Event Description
Health economics evidence is a key element in much health services research and particularly in health technology assessments. Identifying economic evidence to inform such research can involve searches in a range of databases and using a variety of strategies. This study day will include a ‘jargon buster’ session on the basics of health economics and economic models. It will also feature presentations about key economics information resources including the CEA Registry, and explorations of options for searching to identify data for economic models. With the closure of key economic evaluation databases (NHS EED and HEED) we will be focusing on how to identify economic evaluations from major bibliographic databases. There will be opportunities for hands-on practice.
Presenter: Julie Glanville, Independent Consultant in Information Retrieval.
🕒 When
14th November 9am – 11am and 19th November 9am – 11am AEDT
🌎 Where
Zoom link will be sent to registrants prior to the workshop.
This event will be recorded and sent to attendees following the event.
💲 Cost
ALIA Members – $160.00
Non-Members – $220.00 (one more reason – along with 13 others – for considering HLA membership)
Register | Additional Information
You may also be interested in:
How to Search PubMed Effectively – Julie Glanville (see HLA Videos, 2023 section)
🎦 By registering for this event, you are granting the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and its representatives the right to use, reproduce, and publish photos or recordings of your participation in the event. By registering you are indicating that you understand and agree that these photos or recordings may be used for promotional, educational, and informational purposes, including but not limited to, marketing materials, online platforms, social media, and any other medium deemed appropriate by ALIA.
by Rob Penfold | Jul 4, 2024 | News
All about citation chasing and tools that do citation chasing like Citation Gecko, Connected papers, Research Rabbit, LitMaps and more
Like learning?
- There just happens to be a conference coming up that will provide plenty … view the program
- Courses / Events linked to the 8 health librarian competencies have just been updated (July 2024)
- LERRN database “LERRN is a citation database of reviews, overviews and comparisons of electronic resources in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine”
