Why are they not accessing it? User barriers to clinical information access

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Angela Spencer¹  Ryan Rodriguez²  Charlotte Beyer³  John Gallagher⁴  Karen Gutzman⁵  Elizabeth Laera⁶  Sean Pidgeon⁷  Saskia Bolore⁸ 

[1] Assistant Professor, Medical Center Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis MO;Customer Engagement Manager, BMJ, Hoboken, NJ;Director, Boxer Library, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL;Director, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT;Head, Research Assessment and Communications, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL;Medical Librarian, McMahon-Sibley Medical Library, Brookwood Baptist Health, Birmingham, AL;Publishing Director, Science & Medicine, Oxford University Press, New York, NY;Sales Manager, JAMA Network, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL;

关键词: information seeking behavior;    information access;    user behavior;    library;    librarian;    publishing;    physician;    clinical researcher;    clinical faculty;    paywalls;    financial limitations;    physicians;    user experience;   

DOI  :  10.5195/jmla.2021.1051

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Medical Library Association’s InSight Initiative provides an open and collaborative environment for library and industry partners to discuss vexing problems and find solutions to better serve their users. The initiative’s fifth summit, continuing work from the previous summit, focused on understanding how users discover and access information in the clinical environment. During the summit, participants were divided into working groups and encouraged to create a tangible product as a result of their discussions. At the end of the summit, participants established a framework for understanding users’ pain points, discussed possible solutions to those points, and received feedback on their work from an End User Advisory Board comprising physicians, clinical researchers, and clinical faculty in biomedicine. In addition to the pain point framework, participants are developing MLA InSight Initiative Learning content with modules to educate librarians and publishers about critical aspects of user behavior. The 2020 Insight Initiative Fall Forum will serve as a virtual home for constructive dialogue between health sciences librarians and publishers on improving discovery and access to information.

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