Educational Materials

HLWIKI (2008-2018) 

HLWIKI was an internationally-recognized, respected source of information for medical and health librarians. Its objective was to build a health sciences librarianship wiki with an international perspective, that also emphasized issues affecting medical information practices in Canada. As of December 2018, the HLWiki was discontinued. Click here to access the archived website of HLWIKI on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

Library Services in BC Health Authorities

• Vancouver Coastal Health Library
• Fraser Health Library Services
• Interior Health Library Services
• Island Health Library Services
• Northern Health Library Services

Hospital Libraries and Services in BC

• BC Children’s Hospital Family Support and Resource Centre (FSRC) Library
• BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre – Library and Knowledge Services
• BC Women’s Hospital Online Library & Resource Centre
• BC Cancer Library

Non-profits / Other Health Libraries in BC

• Electronic Health Library of BC
• Health and Human Services Library (Ministry of Health, BC Government)
• Apex Information (consultation service offered by Information professional / specialist & Health librarian, Mary-Doug Wright, specializing in health and social sciences information research, policy, economics, and technology)

Academic Resources / Library Research Guides

• UBC Woodward Library – A list of Health & Medicine Research Guides
• UBC Lib Research Guides for Medicine:
  • Medicine (General)
  • Evidence based Health Care (EBHC)
  • Global Health
  • Indigenous Health
  • Systematic and Scoping Reviews
• UBC Lib Research Guide – Grey Literature for Health Sciences
• Services at UBC Teaching Hospitals
  • UBC Biomedical Branch (BMB) Library Services
  • BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
  • St. Paul’s Hospital
• Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA): An evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PRISMA primarily focuses on the reporting of reviews evaluating the effects of interventions, but can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews with objectives other than evaluating interventions (e.g. evaluating aetiology, prevalence, diagnosis or prognosis).

Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals (BC & CA)

• BC Medical Journal
• UBC Medical Journal (UBCMJ)
• Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association
• Canadian Medical Association Journal
• Canadian Journal of Medicine
• Canadian Journal of Public Health
• The College of Family Physicians of Canada Journal
• Canadian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Publicly Accessible Databases

• Cochrane Library: Cochrane is for anyone interested in using high-quality information to make health decisions. Whether you are a clinician, patient or carer, researcher, or policy-maker, Cochrane evidence provides a powerful tool to enhance your healthcare knowledge and decision-making.
• PubMed: Premier database containing over 30 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a focus on biomedicine. Freely available and includes MEDLINE. This link goes to the version with UBC elink.
• MedRxiv: A free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.