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Health Sciences Libraries Journal Vol. 1, Issue 2 (2025) – Published

The Winter issue of our Health Sciences Libraries Journal is now published.

You can access our journal at: https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj/index

 

Volume 1, Issue 2, Table of Contents:

Editorial

  • By HSLJ Editor-in-Chief, Jean McMahon

Practice-Based Articles

  • We All Have a Story to Tell: Why Librarians Should Write about and Share What They Do, Martin O’Connor
  • Time for SerendipiTEA: A Health Library-Led Cross-Organisational Randomised Coffee Trial, Paul Breen and Liis Cotter
  • The Anatomy of a Journal: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How, Mary Dunne, Breeda Herlihy and Julianne O’Callaghan
  • Face Value: How Living with An Appearance Difference Informs Library Customer Service, Maeve Kerins

Regular Features

  • Marcia Crocker Noyes: The Librarian Who Never Left, Meg Fairfax Fielding
  • A Day in the Life of a Medical Librarian in an Academic Family Medicine Department, Alex Henigman
  • Becoming Tusla’s First Librarian, Ian Feerick
  • A Reflection on Forty Years Working in Libraries, Helen Fallon
  • SHOUT: Sharing Hints, Outcomes and Useful Techniques, Mary Dunne

Reports and Reviews

  • Sharpening Search Skills: Reflections on a Peer-Review Search Strategies Course, Aileen Garrihy

Updates

  • IN MEMORIAM. Dr Bríd McGrath BA (Mod), MLitt, PhD, DLIS

The deadlines for our Summer 2026 issue are:

  • Research articles (peer review) – January 10th 2026
  • General submissions – April 1st 2026

For information on submitting an article please see https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/hslj/about/submissions

Journal club meetings

HSLG Virtual Journal Club, Wednesday 10th December 2025 – Open Access & Library Publishing

HSLG Virtual Journal Club, 10th December 2025, 11:00 – 11:45am

Our next journal club meeting will be hosted by Gerry McManus, Library & Information Services, St. Vincent’s University Hospital.

View Gerry’s presentation slides

Article:

Ma, L., Buggle, J. and O’Neill, M. (2023) ‘Open access at a crossroads: library publishing and bibliodiversity’, Insights: the UKSG journal, 36(1), p. 10. https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.613

Discussion Questions 

  • From a library perspective, what does an ideal OA environment look like?
  • Is this OA vision feasible under current conditions?
  • Is small scale library publishing a viable option?
  • Can we break out of metrics-based research assessment? How can we advocate for this?