Independent Reading Program

The preselected articles, below, from the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) or articles from other professional publications that fall within one or more of the professional competencies will be accepted. Simply select an article and complete the online application to earn MLA CE.

Please note that the April 2022 issue of JMLA is the last with preselected articles. You may select any article from subsequent issues that addresses these competencies. 

For more information, contact Debra Cavanaugh.

Titles of preselected JMLA articles:

• A health education outreach partnership between an academic medical library and public library: lessons learned before and during a pandemic April, 2022

• Advancing nursing students’ transition to scholarship: embedding a librarian into the Advanced Nursing Research course April, 2022

• Artificial intelligence behind the scenes: PubMed’s Best Match algorithm January, 2022

• Retracted publications in pharmacy systematic reviews January, 2022

• Health sciences librarians’ engagement in open science: a scoping review October, 2021

• The publication fate of abstracts presented at the Medical Library Association conferencess October, 2021

• Exploring digital health care: eHealth, mHealth, and librarian opportunities July, 2021

• Building capacity among health care librarians to teach evidence-based practice—an evaluation July, 2021

• PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA statement for reporting literature searches in systematic reviews April, 2021

• Medical librarians’ knowledge and practices in locating clinical trials for systematic reviews April, 2021

• A core competency model for clinical informationists January 2021

• Communicating with medical library users during COVID-19 January 2021

• Educational interventions to improve literature searching skills in the health sciences: a scoping review October 2020

• Health sciences library leadership skills in an interprofessional landscape: a review and textual analysis October 2020

• Introducing a health information literacy competencies map: connecting the Association of American Medical Colleges Core Entrustable Professional Activities and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements to the Association of College & Research Libraries Framework July 2020

• Exploring interprofessional collaboration and attitudes of health sciences librarians July 2020

• Academic Health Sciences Libraries and Affiliated Hospitals: A Conversation About Licensing Electronic Resources April 2020

• Librarian Integration into Health Care Conferences: A Case Report April 2020

• Publishing habits and perceptions of open access publishing and public access amongst clinical and research fellows January 2020

• Reflective practice and health sciences librarians: engagement, benefits, and barriers January 2020

• The institutional repository landscape in medical schools and academic health centers: a 2018 snapshot view and analysis October 2019

• Implementing and assessing a service to demonstrate public impact of faculty research in news and policy sources October 2019

• Measuring Impostor Phenomenon Among Health Sciences Librarians July 2019

• Search Results Outliers Among MEDLINE Platforms July 2019

• Critical Librarianship in Health Sciences Libraries: An Introduction April 2019

• Searching By Grant Number: Comparison of Funding Acknowledgments in NIH RePORTER, PubMed, and Web of Science April 2019

• Exploring PubMed as a Reliable Resource for Scholarly Communications Services January 2019

• Lessons Learned from Multisite Implementation and Evaluation of Project SHARE, a Teen Health Information Literacy, Empowerment, and Leadership Program January 2019

• Emerging Roles of Health Information Professionals for Library and Information Science Curriculum Development: A Scoping Review October 2018

• Implementing an Interprofessional Information Literacy Course: Impact on Student Learning and Attitudes October 2018

• The Impact of PICO as a Search Strategy Tool on Literature Search Quality: A Systematic Review October 2018

• Defining Data Librarianship: A Survey of Competencies, Skills, and Training July 2018

• Use of Annual Surveying to Identify Technology Trends and Improve Service Provision July 2018

• Accepting the Challenge: What Academic Health Sciences Library Directors Do to Become Effective Leaders April 2018

• An Historical Overview of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, 1985–2015 April 2018

• It Takes Longer Than You Think: Librarian Time Spent on Systematic Review Tasks April 2018

• Discrepancies Among Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed Coverage of Funding Information in Medical Journal Articles January 2018

• Library Instruction in Medical Education: A Survey of Current Practices in the United States and Canada January 2018

• Roles for Librarians in Systematic Reviews: A Scoping Review January 2018

• Awareness, Adoption, and Application of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy in Health Sciences Libraries October 2017

• Collaboration Challenges in Systematic Reviews: A Survey of Health Sciences Librarians October 2017

• Compliance of Systematic Reviews in Veterinary Journals with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) Literature Search Reporting Guidelines July 2017

• Surveying Hospital Nurses to Discover Educational Needs and Preferences July 2017

• Evaluation of Hospital Staff’s Perceived Quality of Librarian-Mediated Literature Searching Services April 2017

• Mapping the Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy Framework and Nursing Professional Standards Onto an Assessment Rubric April 2017