👉 If you previously tried to access a video but couldn’t, try again (embedded passcodes have been explicity provided to bypass the occassional automatic login problem)
🔔 Aware of a particularly useful resource that would be helpful for health librarians? Suggest it (doesn’t need to be from HLA)
💡 Watching one of these videos revealed a gap in your knowledge? Suggest it as an HLA professional development session
2025
The Wild West of AI – A critical look at Al within the context of literature searching and summarization (UX Caucus, US. They have a useful database tips blog)
Using AI in Automation of Evidence Synthesis: What Does Research Tell Us? (Farhad Shokraneh)
The role of AI tools in developing search strategies and identifying evidence for systematic reviews (Julie Glanville / Evidence Synthesis Ireland) Link to Resources Discussed
MLA UX Caucus Database Tips ⚡ Lightning Round II | Associated documents
🕓 Timestamps
05:40 – Sneaky Solution: Searching for Articles on Ethical Values
18:59 – RSS Feeds for Librarians: Tracking Subtopics and Trends
34:58 – Using Ovid’s Basic Search Function to Build Search Strategies
46:07 – Quotations Around Single-Word Terms in PubMed
59:23 – Special Characters in PubMed
TERA Workshop (Justin Clark, Bond University, worth a watch / TERA : The Evidence Review Accelerator is the successor to The Systematic Review Accelerator)
Searching for studies: Basics of a systematic search (JBI Apr 2025)
Research Methods for Health Librarians 1: Survey Research (Passcode: H4HBLP!6 / 5th Mar, Dr Katherine Howard – Intersect Australia’s Digital Research Analyst for UniSA)
Here I am! Making the invisible library 👻 visible in healthcare (Passcode: jisHd.3A / 19th Feb, Lori Korodaj, Canberra Health Services Library).
(How) can AI-based automation tools assist with systematic searching? (Requires free Cochrane account to view / January 2025 by Cochrane Training – view upcoming Evidence Synthesis webinars)
2024
How AI & Large Language Models are Changing Academic Search (Aaron Tay)
Using Covidence to maximise efficiency for systematic reviews (Passcode: &R&7CZIQ / 7th Nov)
MLA UX Caucus Database Tips Lightning Round October
🕓 Timestamps. Visit the UX Caucus post page for associated documents
00:40 – Methodology and Publication Type Filters in EBSCOhost Databases
07:15 – Tricky Truncation in ProQuest Databases
12:52 – The Embase Query Translator
19:20 – What’s Included in Emtree’s /syn and /br
24:55 – Fun with PMIDs
30:55 – Questions
GAIL (Generative AI in Libraries) 2024 Conference videos (includes a number that look at research tools like Elicit, Consensus etc)
Leveraging Wikipedia for Health Research Dissemination (Passcode: 7v8S^B02 / Jun 2024)
What I love about being a health librarian (Passcode: uy1*wypS / May 2024)
(There is also a US version of this)
MEDLINE & Embase on Ovid: Comparing the content (Only available if you registered for the event (if you are keen to view – send an email / Ovid)
LibTech Tools (several videos)
2023
The HLA Great Debate (Passcode: QQxd61T?)
Is it dis-information or mis-information? (Passcode: o@7J6ETL
Helping researchers publish – a health librarian perspective (Passcode: U^E65Ci2)
Streamlining Reference Services (Passcode: Fng@qW8R)
Automated interlibrary loan/document delivery (ILL/DD) database for health libraries (Passcode: 6fqe%d3=)
Research Impact: How & Why We Use Social Media (Passcode: ?n1AR?&d)
Automation Tool workshop (Passcode: KA5+cBHR)
How to search PubMed effectively (Julie Glanville, Evidence Synthesis Ireland)
2022
Presentations (PDF) from the HLA 2022 Conference
KEYNOTE Riding the wave of transformation in scholarly communication and open access (Prof Virginia Barbour)
KEYNOTE knowledge engineering : librarians driving the management of consumer health information at HealthDirect Australia (James Humffray)
Advancing the research ecosystem (Liz Smee & Jess Reynolds)
JoHILA’s journey into a Diamond journal (Daniel McDonald)
The calm after the storm (Lynette Frazer)
Alright STOP, collaborate and listen: making your library website a portal for medical education (Julia Gollan)
Impact of a Hospital Library Service at a Regional Health Service in Australia (Gemma Siemensma, Catriona Clayworth & Michelle Pitman)
The design of a methodologically rigorous systematic review: empowering health librarians to support evidence syntheses (Leila Mohammadi)
Don’t stop believin’ : cost-effective ways to maximise the use of print and electronic holdings (Cass Gorton)
Ovid product updates (Wolters Kluwer)
HLA Awards Update 2022
🕓 Timestamps
000:00 Improving the development and reporting of search filters (Anne Harrison Award 2020)
017:00 Shoosh – a podcast about health libraries (Medical Director Digital Innovation Award 2020)
042:30 Digital room booking system (Medical Director Digital Innovation Award 2021)
2021
Open Scholarship – All things open (2021)
🕓 Timestamps
003:40 Towards a national strategy for FAIR and open access to Australia’s research outputs
034:10 Hard won : the challenges of obtaining scholarly communication knowledge & skills
058:00 A knowledge management system framework for an Australasian open biomedical repository
