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About the Health Information Libraries Journal (HILJ)

Health Information Libraries Journal (HILJ) is a European journal of international and interdisciplinary interest to practitioners, researchers, and students in the library and health sectors.  Published by the Health Libraries Group in conjunction with Wiley-Blackwell, HILJ aims to promote debate about new health information developments with an emphasis on communicating evidence-based information both in the management and support of healthcare services.

Online access HILJ is now free to HLG members - see  below.   You can also get a reduced rate for a print subscription to HILJ.

For more information about HILJ follow us on Twitter @HILJnl 

Since March 2014 the Health Information and Libraries Journal has been made available free of charge to members.  In addition to full access to all future editions members can also read back copies.

The Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ) is published quarterly in partnership with Wiley, and is the leading peer reviewed journal for those working, or interested in health and social care library and information issues.

We hope this new benefit will support members in their continuing professional development and encourage more people to submit articles to the journal.

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Access to HILJ

 

Meet the HILJ Editorial Team

 

Maria Grant – HILJ Editor-in-Chief
Freelance Trainer/Researcher, Maria J Grant Consulting 

I am a freelance trainer, coach and mentor specialising in sharing professional practice through the written word. I have a background in information science and have published widely, including a typology of reviews and associated methodologies, and as Lead Editor of the “Research, Evaluation and Audit: Key Steps in Demonstrating Your Value”.  I have been Editor-in-Chief of the CILIP HLG’s Health Information and Libraries Journal since 2009.

Christine Urquhart – HILJ Assistant Editor
Senior Lecturer (Emeritus), Aberystwyth University

Since retirement from Aberystwyth University, I have conducted several health and social care projects, as an independent consultant. I was an Associate Editor for BMC Health Services Research, and have been on the editorial advisory board of Health Information and Libraries Journal for many years. I now also serve on the editorial board of Annual Reviews of Information Science and Technology (ARIST).


Anthea Sutton – HILJ Review Editor
Senior Information Specialist/Information Resources Group Manager and Director of Professional Learning, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield 

I manage the ScHARR Information Resources Group and I am a Senior Information Specialist, undertaking literature searching, information management, study selection and data extraction for systematic reviews and other types of evidence syntheses.   I am the Director of Professional Learning at ScHARR, responsible for their programme of short courses. I am also the joint lead of a module on systematically reviewing the research literature for postgraduate students, and a joint author of the textbook “Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review” 3rd edition published by Sage in 2021. 

Donna Irving – HILJ Regular Feature Editor – Teaching and Learning in Action
Medical & Healthcare Librarian, Queen’s University Belfast 

I am a qualified librarian with over three decades of experience across multiple sectors, primarily in higher education. My professional journey has encompassed strategic management, advanced searching (for systematic reviews), and educational innovation. I have a keen interest in information literacy, and in helping students and staff utilise information effectively; my particular emphasis is in preparing students for effective information management in complex healthcare settings. I am interested in exploring how information literacy skills learned at university translate into professional practice.

Tracey Pratchett – HILJ Regular Feature Editor – Practice Based Studies 

Knowledge and Library Services Lead, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
I am the lead for delivering knowledge management and library services to NHS staff and students on placement at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. I am interested in supporting colleagues who are new to writing and want to share their learning with others. I have written book chapters and articles on a range of topics and was joint editor of Practical Tips for Developing Your Staff and co-author of Evaluating clinical librarian services: a systematic review.

Veronica Parisi – HILJ Regular Feature Editor – AI and New Technologies
Librarian/Information Specialist, University of London

I am a qualified Librarian and Information Specialist with over 15 years' experience of working across higher education institutions and NHS organisations. I have experience of conducting systematic reviews for publication, delivering digital and health information literacy training, alongside leading and motivating teams of library professionals. I have a keen interest in AI and new technologies and how these may be deployed to help augment the work of health librarians and information specialists around the world.

Virtual HILJ

The 2024 virtual issue brings together Health Information and Libraries Journal manuscripts aligned with the Health Libraries Group 2024 conference theme of “Connecting”: connecting with users, across our profession, across sectors, with policy, with systems, and with health and wellbeing. Further details of the HLG 2024 conference, London, 20-21 June 2024, can be found via the conference website.

Virtual Issue: Connections and Collaborations in a Health Library Context

Aligned with UXLibs7 conference theme of Connections and Collaborations, the 2023 Virtual Issue brings together Health Information and Libraries Journal research manuscripts on the topic of user experience in libraries. The Connections and Collaborations theme seeks to encourage us to consider how we can co-create more relevant and inclusive library spaces, demonstrate the value of user experience research, and consider how external connections can help improve our processes. Further details of the UXLibs7 conference which took place in Brighton from Tuesday 6  to Thursday 8 June 2023, can be found at the conference website. All the content is available free on the HILJ website.

Edited by Maria J. Grant

Virtual Issue: Health and Information Libraries Journal celebrating HLG 75

To mark the CILIP Health Libraries Group celebrations of their 75th anniversary,  the Virtual Issue for 2022 brings together Health Information and Libraries Journal manuscripts that have been particularly influential or generated most interest in our readers, or represent a significant event in the journal’s own history, while still having relevance to contemporary health library and knowledge service practice.  All the content is available free on the HILJ website here.

  

 

Introducing the 2021 virtual issue of HILJ - Engaging with Technology: Projects and Research Initiated by Health Information Professionals

This year’s virtual issue (VI) edited by Jeannette Murphy  links to the Future Technologies Conference  to be held online in Canada on Thursday 28 October and Friday 29 October 2021. One of the themes of the conference is Smart Healthcare. The articles chosen for inclusion in the VI all demonstrate how health science librarians are carrying out research to find ways of using technology to meet the needs of their user groups. The articles cover the following topics:

• A literature review of the factors which make it easy for doctors to look up information whilst seeing patients
  
• A study of how technology can improve the availability and use of health information on cancer subjects
• An investigation of the types of questions posted on a medical consultation website.
• An analysis of Twitter data collected during the 2009 swine flu epidemic
• The use of electronic health records in dental settings
• Electronic healthcare records and data quality
• The use of gamification techniques to teach medical residents how to conduct bibliographic searches in health sciences’ databases.
• Digital health interventions - opportunities for health science librarians

All the content is available free on the HILJ website here:https://bit.ly/vhilj2021 and  you can follow us on Twitter:  @ HILJnl