Communications & Publications

Publications

HLA produces two regular publications:

• JoHILA (Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia)
  • Our professional journal
  • Published three times per year (April Aug Dec)
  • JoHILA has replaced HLA News
• HLA Alerts
  • Current awareness service
  • Published monthly
  • For HLA members
  • Subscribe to HLA Alerts
  • View the HLA Alerts archive (from 2015 with some gaps)
  • Alerts is currently sponsored by EBSCO

It’s easy to become a member of HLA and receive these valuable publications

Both publications welcome contributions. To find out more, contact our Publications Editor Daniel McDonald

Email List – ALIAHealth

ALIAHealth is the HLA moderated elist for anyone interested in health libraries and health librarianship

• Job recruitment or other advertisements
• Promotion of non-ALIA events
• Obscene language or defamatory/offensive/illegal content
• Harassment, insults, or attacks on others

Subscribe – subscribe to the ALIAHealth elist (you will be added to the list within 3 business days)
Unsubscribe – email hla@alia.org.au (not to entire list)
Post – email hla-members@alia.org.au
Questions / issues – email hla@alia.org.au

👉 Sharing – don’t be shy about posting useful new resources or techniques / asking questions / reporting problems / anything else. Health librarians are geographically dispered in Australia so this is a good way we can learn from each other.

A. Other medical librarian listservs

MEDLIB-L (US) – Subscribe / Archive
CANMEDLIB (Canada) – Subscribe / Guidelines / Archive
EAHIL (Europe) – Register (Choose Other in the first field (Team) if non-European, select country in Country, & select “Please add me to the EAHIL discussion list”)
LIS-MEDICAL (UK) – Subscribe / Guidelines / Archive
Health-Info (NZ) – Subscribe
Evidence-based Healthcare (UK) – Subscribe
LibTech Insights (US) – Subscribe (scroll down to find)
ExpertSearching – Subscribe (Related: Searching CoP / UX Caucus Database Tips)
Biomedical Librarianship – Subscribe (click on Sign Up button). AI in Evidence Synthesis also of possible interest
Australian Research Data Commons – Subscribe (scroll down to the very bottom of the page)

B. Other listservs / newsletters of possible interest

Australian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM) – Subscribe (covers a wide range of Australian health topics – AI, eHealth, Indigenous Health, Innovations etc)
Australian Institute for Digital Health (AIDH) – Subscribe
Australian Policy Weekly – Subscribe
PubTech Radar Scan – Subscribe (“PubTech Radar Scan is a free newsletter exploring the latest trends, tools, and innovations in publishing technology”)
Newslet for Libraries – Subscribe
CAVAL – Subscribe (University libraries)
CHOICE – Subscribe (Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association)
Aaron Tay’s Musings about Librarianship – Subscribe (technology / AI / library management systems)
Katina – Librarianship Elevated – Subscribe
Health Libraries Group (HLG) Newsletter (UK / Subscribe in bottom right corner)

👉 Aware of any other useful listservs or newsletters that could be added here? Send a quick email

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