NEWS AND NOTES / NOUVELLES ET NOTES

Compiled by Sandra Halliday

<table><tr><td><u><b>Promoting evidence based decision making</b></u></td><td>75</td></tr><tr><td><u><b>New special queries resource in PubMed</b></u></td><td>75</td></tr><tr><td><u><b>Journal of the European Association of Health Information and Libraries</b></u></td><td>75</td></tr><tr><td><u><b>Dare to dream — one vision for medical libraries in 2015</b></u></td><td>76</td></tr><tr><td><u><b>Ghostwritten articles — are you familiar with the practice?</b></u></td><td>76</td></tr><tr><td><u><b>Call for papers for the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association</b></u></td><td>76</td></tr></table>
NEWS AND NOTES / NOUVELLES ET NOTES

Promoting evidence based decision making

http://health-evidence.ca (launched on 20 March 2005)

This is a Web site designed to provide quality research evidence to public health decision makers, saving you time by searching, screening, and rating the systematic review evidence to compile it in a free, searchable online registry. Findings of a research project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research demonstrated a need for a reliable source of review evidence that decision makers in public health could access and use easily. You can read more about the study and ongoing research elsewhere on the site, and you can also read more about the process each review must pass before being posted here.
(Accessed on 1 May 2005 at http://health-evidence.ca/why_he.aspx.)

New special queries resource in PubMed

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma05/ma05_technote.html#queries

A new link called Special Queries will be added to PubMed's blue sidebar. Like the Clinical Queries link that takes you to a page providing specialized PubMed searches for clinicians, the Special Queries link provides access to a directory of topic-specific PubMed queries. The directory includes links to the following:

* Queries targeted for clinicians and health services researchers, including a listing for the standard clinical queries, health services research queries, and the cancer topic searches feature (offered by the National Cancer Institute)

• Subject queries, such as AIDS, bioethics, systematic reviews

* Special search queries or interfaces for complementary medicine, history of medicine, and MedlinePlus health topics

* Journal collection queries

The Special Queries directory provides links to special search interfaces or presets the Limit function of the standard PubMed interface to the selected subject or journal subset. (Accessed on 1 May 2005 at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma05/ma05_technote.html#queries.)

Journal of the European Association of Health Information and Libraries

http://www.eahil.net/newsletter/newsletters.htm

The first issue of the *Journal of the European Association of Health Information and Libraries* was published in February 2005. It was formally entitled *Newsletter of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries*. Currently, this publication is available free on the Internet at the above address. It will be published quarterly.