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{"title":"PubMed: an untapped source for open educational resource images.","authors":"Ellie Svoboda, Teresa Connolly","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2210","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Open Educational Resources (OER) are free learning materials that benefit students in higher education, including in the health sciences. As more health sciences OER materials are created, there is a need for openly licensed health sciences images. Traditional OER repositories lack specialized health sciences imagery while PubMed is a biomedical database that has potential to fill this gap.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>A nursing faculty partnered with a health sciences librarian to search PubMed for openly licensed images for a pathophysiology OER textbook. The librarian used existing filters in PubMed to identify articles that have Creative Commons licenses as well as images. The nursing faculty assessed these images and added relevant ones to the pathophysiology textbook.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PubMed is a free resource that health sciences librarians use on a regular basis. Utilizing the database to find openly licensed materials allows librarians to use a familiar tool for a new and exciting purpose.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"159-163"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075574/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building an interactive dashboard to visualize institutional open access publishing trends.","authors":"Emily F Gorman, Nicole Shelawala, Amy Yarnell","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2340","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As part of an effort to seek sustainable support models for Open Access (OA) publishing, the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), Health Sciences and Human Services Library's (HSHSL's) Scholarly Communications Committee developed an interactive dashboard to visualize university-wide OA publishing trends. Using publication data exported from Scopus and visualized in Microsoft Power BI, the dashboard displays five years of publishing trends by OA model, publisher, journal, school, and citation count. The dashboard is fully interactive, allowing users to filter results based on school, OA model, and year. The design of the dashboard was iterative, with planning discussions taking place in Summer 2024, data model development and initial data collection in Fall 2024, refining of the visualization and data model in early Spring 2025, and the publication of the final dashboard to our website in April 2025. The dashboard continues to be refined and improved based on feedback from stakeholders, and the project team plans to incorporate data on publishing costs in Spring 2026. The project was designed for sustainability and adaptability, with a documented workflow that will be easy for future committees to implement. This innovative, replicable approach supports informed decision-making around OA publishing and provides a model that can be adopted by other academic health sciences libraries.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"173-175"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075570/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Club at a medical school in the Sertão Region of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil.","authors":"Amanda Lima Sampaio, Álida Silva, Yasmin Limão, Lehi Bezerra, Janine Braz","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2177","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The integration of literature and the humanities into medical education offers numerous benefits for both students and the broader community. Engaging with literary texts encourages the development of empathy, critical thinking, emotional awareness, and communication skills, all essential for a more humanistic and socially responsive medical practice. Additionally, initiatives that bring together students and local residents through shared cultural experiences help strengthen the university's connection with the surrounding community and promote mutual understanding. The Book club was created at the medical school in Caicó (RN, Brazil), as a space to explore diverse literary works beyond the health sciences.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>The Book Club was approved as an extension event and is promoted in Escola Multicampi de Ciências Médicas do Rio Grande do Norte (EMCM) by the Pro-Rectory of Extension from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) situated in Caicó city (RN, Brazil). It has a multidisciplinary team of students, teachers and technical staff. Six literary works were selected based on the alignment with the club's educational goals, particularly the potential to stimulate critical reflection on themes such as grief, racism, gender, and social justice. Registration took place through the Integrated Academic Activities Management System, and the monthly meetings were held in the Medical School auditorium. Participants received pedagogical support via social networks, club app, reading planner and newsletter.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>With 22 participants, including 8 community members and 14 medical students, the Book Club explored perspectives such as gender, racism, grief, trauma and colonialism. The predominance of medical students highlights academic interest and institutional support in extension projects, while low community adherence points to the need for new engagement strategies. The analysis of followers on Instagram reveals a significant participation of the local population, especially among women, but also highlights a gap in the presence of men and adolescents. This demonstrates the importance of a more inclusive and diverse approach to attracting different audiences. The Book Club at the public Medical School, by stimulating cognitive and human skills through literature, enriches academic training and strengthens the connection between academia and the community.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"143-150"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13077573/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Guide to sound teeth: a syllabus-informed instructional session to provide targeted insights into the history of dentistry.","authors":"Jessica R Hollister, Keith Mages, Thomas Murphy, Meelin Dian Chin Kit-Wells","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2287","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This case report details an exploratory instructional session for dental students led by librarian-instructors at the University at Buffalo. Using historical source materials from the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection, an hour-long session was developed to introduce year-one dental students to the history of their profession and its ongoing collaboration with important clinical populations.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>At the request of course faculty, the University at Buffalo's Dental Liaison Librarian, History of Medicine Curator, and History of Medicine Archivist were invited to develop and lead a session on the history of dentistry for a first-year course, Profession, Practice, and Community Dentistry (PDO 801). A core feature of this course is the introduction of students to eight underserved dental patient populations-referred to as \"communities of focus.\" To supplement student learning, library staff utilized the holdings of the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection to bring together stories, artifacts, and printed materials that spoke not only to the history of the profession, but also to the history of the communities of focus. Thought prompts were developed to guide students during a textual analysis activity that analyzed representative materials.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, this interdisciplinary collaboration provided the opportunity to develop and implement a syllabus-informed historical instructional session that offered targeted insights into dentistry's past. Through guided discussions, hands-on exploration, and textual analysis of historic materials, instructors worked to inspire and educate participating dental students as they progress further along their path as providers of patient-forward care.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"151-158"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075581/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of health information prescription in thyroid cancer.","authors":"Marta Bianchini, Giulia Puliani, Virginia Scarinci, Gaetana Cognetti, Rosa Lauretta, Marilda Mormando, Francesca Servoli, Marialuisa Appetecchia","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Information prescriptions consist in making specific health care information available to patients on their disease from accredited sources, in order to help them understand and manage their disease, stimulating informed participation in health care. In the literature, a few studies have investigated the real effectiveness of prescribing information on the health management of oncological diseases. The scope of our pilot study was to investigate the effectiveness of information prescription, evaluating both patient satisfaction and perception, but also its possible impact on adherence to follow-up programs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Prospective pilot study enrolling patients with thyroid cancer. They received informative scientific material on thyroid cancer, dispensed by clinical librarians of the Institute's Library.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>101 patients were enrolled (81% were women with a total mean age of 49.39 years). 26% of patients accessed the institute's library receiving patient information materials. Comparing data of people who completed the project with those who did not, no differences in sex, age and tumour characteristics were found. We found no statistical differences in terms of adherence to follow-up visits between the two groups of patients, but health information was able to effectively respond to the requests or needs of most patients. Participating patients have improved awareness and knowledge of their disease, patient-doctor relationships, adherence to treatment and communication with family members regarding their disease status, with a final positive impact on one's psychological well-being and global satisfaction obtained in 65% of people.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This is the first Italian study carried out in the field of oncological endocrinology, demonstrating the positive role health information has on patients' psychological health and thyroid cancer knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"116-124"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075578/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing the performance of narrow vs. broad search strategies when using machine learning-based software for title/abstract screening.","authors":"Michelle Swab","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To retrospectively evaluate workload implications and recall performance of narrower or broader database search strategies when using active learning screening tools.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A convenience sample of 10 completed reviews was used to assess search strategy performance in ASReview LAB, an open-source systematic review software tool. For each review, a single database search strategy was selected and then revised to either broaden (n = 9) or narrow (n = 1) the scope. Results from both the more sensitive (broader) and more precise (narrower) search strategies were labeled as relevant or irrelevant based on inclusion in the completed review. The labeled result sets were uploaded into the ASReview LAB simulation module, which mimics the process of human screening. Metrics such as number of records screened to reach recall of 95% or more were recorded. The effects of three different stopping rules on workload and recall were also explored.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For quantitative systematic reviews, the difference in absolute screening time required to reach 95% recall between broader or narrower search strategies was minimal (≤35 minutes). In contrast, for qualitative systematic reviews and other review types, broader search strategies led to increased workload. With respect to stopping rules, the time-based stopping heuristic resulted in substantial workload increases when broader search strategies were employed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Time savings achieved through the use of semi-automated screening tools may not always offset additional screening time required by broader, more sensitive search strategies. Librarians and information specialists should consider a variety of factors when determining the appropriate balance between search sensitivity and specificity in the context of semi-automated screening tools.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"105-115"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075572/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A generalist institutional data repository offering both open and restricted access to support NIH data sharing compliance.","authors":"Seonyoung Kim, Xing Jian, Marcy L Vana","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2339","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In response to the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis launched Digital Commons Data@Becker, a generalist institutional data repository supporting both open and restricted access to research data. Managed by Bernard Becker Medical Library's DMS Team, the repository offers a fully mediated curation workflow that guides researchers through consultation, metadata capture, documentation, and quality control. Draft Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) can be issued once access type is determined, with final DOI publication following curation and QC. Restricted datasets require Human Research Protection Office (HRPO) review and Data Transfer and Use Agreements (DTUAs), while open access datasets are freely downloadable. The repository leverages persistent identifiers such as Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID iDs), Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs, and DOIs, along with the DataCite metadata schema and custom metadata fields. Since its launch in 2023, Digital Commons Data@Becker has published 30 datasets spanning biomedical imaging, sequencing, quantitative assays, flow cytometry, and qualitative survey data. Across all datasets, there have been 4,409 views and 4,120 files downloaded, with restricted datasets generating 13 access requests, three of which were granted through DTUAs. Researchers emphasize the value of free institutional curation, flexible access models, and rapid DOI assignment. Digital Commons Data@Becker demonstrates how a generalist institutional data repository can balance accessibility and security to support NIH compliance, while advancing FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data sharing and long-term stewardship.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"176-177"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075575/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blogs as data: using XQuery for content evaluation.","authors":"Eli Wachter, Elizabeth A Mullen","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2338","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Circulating Now</i>, the history of medicine blog for the National Library of Medicine (NLM), highlights blog posts written by community contributors. To evaluate the community represented within the blog, the project team explored how XQuery, a language for querying XML data, could be utilized in developing a dataset on institutions represented in the blog. The team used ChatGPT to develop the XQuery script and processed the queries through BaseX. The resulting data was transferred to Excel where additional data elements, such as geographic location and institutional type, were manually added. From this dataset, the team created visualizations in Tableau to show the over 400 unique institutions across the world represented. These visualizations supplemented an internal report for the <i>Circulating Now</i> Editorial Board, illustrating the current engagement reach of the blog and areas for future possible collaboration.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"169-170"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075573/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating automated or artificial intelligence search tools for evidence synthesis.","authors":"Robin Featherstone","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2341","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To advance information retrieval science for producing evidence syntheses at Canada's Drug Agency, the Research Information Services team developed a replicable process to evaluate automated or artificial intelligence (AI) search tools. The team inventoried 51 tools in the fall of 2023 and built a flexible evaluation instrument to inform adoption decisions and enable comparison between tools. Building on this foundational evaluation work, the team further conducted a comparative analysis on three top-ranked tools in the fall of 2024. The investigation confirmed that these automated or AI tools have inconsistent and variable performance for the range of information retrieval tasks performed by Information Specialists at Canada's Drug Agency. Implementation recommendations from this study informed a \"fit for purpose\" approach where Information Specialists leverage automated or AI search tools for specific tasks or project types.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"171-172"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075584/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147693038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implementing a Spanish Wikipedia elective for medical students.","authors":"Juli McCarroll","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2026.2237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2237","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Individuals seeking health information often turn to the Internet for answers. Wikipedia is a dynamic, crowdsourced encyclopedia and one of the most accessed online sources for this content. However, the Spanish Wikipedia is not nearly as in-depth as the English version, creating a large disparity. Medical students with English and Spanish proficiency possess a distinct skill set that positions them to contribute timely, trusted, evidence-based content to the platform and reduce this inequity.</p><p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>This case study presents the implementation of a credit-bearing Spanish Wikipedia translation elective by the library for fourth-year medical students at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, currently the only Spanish Wikipedia elective in a medical school in the United States. The purpose of the course is to increase the quality and readability of medical articles in the English and Spanish versions of the online encyclopedia using evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The output from this elective demonstrates that medical students can use their medical knowledge and skills to create and improve articles in English and Spanish on Wikipedia and disseminate evidence-based information to millions of consumers worldwide seeking reputable health information. Learners can leverage their specialized training to minimize the gap between these versions and become active participants in global health. By using technology to their advantage, they provide enduring health information that impacts and reaches many more people in a virtual setting than in a traditional one-on-one clinical encounter.</p>","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"114 2","pages":"136-142"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13075579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147692428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}