This MLA webinar aims to empower health sciences librarians to perform excellent peer reviews and write articles that pass peer review. You will learn about the Journal of the Medical Library Association’s (JMLA’s) peer review process, the importance of peer reviewers to research in our field, and ways to find your strengths as a peer reviewer and an author. Learning Outcomes: At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
Audience: This webinar is designed for librarians at all experience levels. No knowledge of peer review is required to attend. Anyone interested in learning about the peer review process and/or improving their peer review skills is recommended to attend. Presenters: Jill Barr-Walker is a clinical librarian at the ZSFG Library, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, part of the University of California–San Francisco, as well as assistant editor for JMLA. She has published seventeen peer-reviewed articles, and her current research involves information-seeking behavior around abortion, impostor syndrome among health sciences librarians, sexual harassment in academic libraries, and how medical library workers cope with the death of library patrons. Katherine Goold Akers is a biomedical research and data specialist at the Shiffman Medical Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, with expertise in literature searching, systematic reviews, scholarly writing and publishing, assessment of research impact, and research data management. She is the editor-in-chief of JMLA. Akers was trained as a behavioral neuroscientist and studied connections between brain function and learning and memory. The link for this webinar is for live viewing only and does not provide access to the recording or to continuing education credits. For HLSP participants: Contact Sally Stieglitz at sstieglitz@lilrc.org to arrange for viewing and credit options for our hospital librarian members.
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