A type of publication that allows authors to retain copyright and readers to access material free of charge.
What is an open access journal/publication?
100
A forum that provides for peer reviewing of search strategies.
What is PRESS?
100
A Latin term which emphasizes a fellowship, or the coming together of separate groups for a purpose.
What is a consortium?
100
A major Canadian vendor of health sciences books.
What is Login Brothers?
100
This acronym helps researchers parse a medical question into searchable components.
What is PICO?
200
The two primary vehicles for delivering OA research articles.
What are OA journals and OA repositories?
200
Literature that is published outside the commercial publishing industry.
What is grey literature?
200
An informal, self organized group with more than 200 library consortia worldwide.
What is ICOLC?
200
An arrangement that provides for the automatic arrival of books at your library.
What is an approval plan?
200
This shape is used to illustrate hierarchal levels of evidence in medical research.
What is a pyramid?
300
One of the largest publishers of open access medical journals (located in the UK) whose financial model relies on the payment of author fees.
What is Biomed Central?
300
An organization that has produced a manual outlining procedures for conducting a systematic review.
What is the Cochrane Collaboration or Centres for Reviews and Dissemination?
300
An initiative to support equal access to health information for all Canadian health practitioners.
What is CVHL/Canadian Virtual Health Library?
300
This list of core titles identifies key books that should be in every health sciences collection.
What is Doody's list?
300
A search engine that searches 25+ evidence-based sources, including clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews and displays evidence grades by colour.
What is TRIP?
400
The term KT (Knowledge Translation) was initially coined by what funding agency in the year 2000.
What is CIHR - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research?
400
A canned search that allows you to limit to a specific research methodology.
What is a methodology filter? What is a search filter?
400
A partnership that provides access to a comprehensive suite of online health information resources for all health practitioners in Saskatchewan.
What is SHIRP?
400
Budgets need to take this into account, as it increases the costs of purchases by an average of 8-15% each year.
What is inflation?
400
In this kind of study neither the researchers nor the participants know who is receiving the treatment and who is receiving the placebo or comparator treatment.
What is a double-blinded study?
500
This framework developed by Graham et al. (in 2006) is seen as a tool for facilitating the use of research knowledge by practitioners, policymakers, patients, and the public.
What is the Knowledge to Action Process?
500
A publication in which the analysis of effectiveness of an intervention is augmented with the analysis of additional factors such as policy and economic implications.
What is a health technology assessment?
500
A program coordinated by the National Library of Medicine and carried out through a nationwide network of health sciences libraries and information centers.
What is the National Network of Libraries for Health?
500
This document explores the true cost a new academic degree program will add to a university library system budget.
What is an impact statement?
500
This technique is used to avoid selection bias, by “preventing researchers from (unconsciously or otherwise) influencing which participants are assigned to a given intervention group”? (CONSORT)