Interesting paper
#medlibs
Greenhalgh, T., Ratnayake, S., Helm, R., Poliseli, L., & Williamson, J. (2026). Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy. Research synthesis methods, 1–20. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/rsm.2026.10072

Trying to sneak in some relevant #library data collection along with engagement this week. #librarylife #medlibs

I wonder how many academic medical libraries have access to all the news sources that have won Health Journalism prizes in the last few years?
https://healthjournalism.org/awards-for-excellence/2025-winners
#medlibs #GreyLit

Hmm, I thought that Journalytics included Impact Factor or CiteScore. But I don't see now. Instead there's a citation sentiment metric and Altmetrics.
Did I imagine that they had JIF?
#medlibs #bibliometrics

Here's our latest #medlibs question outside the #library doors. Last week our users decided that Ross and Rachel were on a break but his actions were still morally wrong.

OK, I came across an interesting paper that presents a set of 62 papers that reported race or ethnicity data. I was thinking it would be interesting to see if the papers are easily discoverable by would-be readers looking for race/ethnicity data
- are the population subgroups mentioned in the title/abstract/author keywords?
- are the population subgroups mentioned in the Medline or Embase subject indexing?
- if the population subgroup info is hidden away in the the full text, does the publisher allow full text to be searched outside of its own platforms?
#medlibs #HealthDisparities

One of my favourite #medlibs mornings today as we have a therapy dog visiting the wellbeing area in the #library for staff and students to meet. #librarylife

Our annual library survey is out. My favourite reply so far is that they don't use the library because eBooks, Google and ChatGPT have all the answers they need, but that is also full of misspellings and best of all spells technology wrong. #medlibs #librarylife

a cartoon character sitting on...

I work in a medical library, and recently this has been one of our most issued books. We have no idea why. You can see from the date stamps it first went out in 2010. It is not a medical or educational text. Any guesses? #medlibs