Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>:\u00a00276-3869 (print),\u00a0<\/span>1540-9597 (online)<\/span><\/p>\n Website:<\/strong>\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly<\/em> | Current Issue<\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong>\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>\u201ccovers topics of current interest and practical value in the areas of reference in medicine and related specialties, the biomedical sciences, nursing, and allied health.\u201d The journal\u00a0<\/em>publishes practice-oriented and research articles on medical reference services, with a focus on \u201cuser education, database searching, and electronic information.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong>\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0is an \u201cessential working tool for medical and health sciences librarians\u201d aimed at\u00a0\u201cprofessionals who provide reference and public services to health sciences personnel in clinical, educational, or research settings\u201d in the fields of medicine, biomedical science, nursing, allied health.2<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Taylor & Francis.3<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, double-blind peer review.4<\/sup><\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0LIS scholarly journal.<\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0Print and online.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Content:<\/strong>\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0publishes original practical and research articles on health sciences librarianship. Regular columns include Online Updates, Emerging Technologies, Hospital Information Services, Informatics Education, From the Literature, and Book Reviews.6<\/sup>\u00a0Recent topics include using the Internet for providing medical information, using biomedical databases, managing medical reference services, continuing education, marketing, user education, document delivery, patient education, ready reference, and collection management, all within the context of medical reference services.7<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication:<\/strong>\u00a0Quarterly.8<\/sup><\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines:<\/strong>\u00a0Instructions for authors<\/a><\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cMedical Reference Services Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>covers topics of current interest and practical value in public services librarianship in the areas of medicine and related specialties, including the biomedical sciences, nursing, and allied health. MRSQ has expanded its scope to cover most aspects of health sciences librarianship, including health informatics, information literacy, collection development, and management of health sciences libraries\u201d9<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:<\/strong>\u00a0Submissions are submitted via email to the editor as Word file attachments. Manuscripts are screened for originality.10<\/sup>\u00a0Manuscripts are \u201care peer reviewed using a rigorous, double-blind process\u201d by two reviewers assigned based on subject expertise.11<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:<\/strong>\u00a0Formal and scholarly.<\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong>\u00a0Chicago Publication Manual,\u00a0<\/em>16th ed.12<\/sup><\/p>\n Medical Reference Services Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0is a journal for\u00a0LIS professionals who specialize in medical and health science information services in clinical, educational, or research settings, and who produce articles of practical application and original research. Authors should be aware that this is a high-level, \u201chighly acclaimed,\u201d professional and research journal, with an emphasis on articles that analyze and evaluate practical application in all types of medical and health science library and information settings.13<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication circulation:<\/strong>\u00a0Not provided.<\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations:<\/strong>\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0is written in English for a U.S.-based audience. The editors and editorial board members are from U.S. institutions.14<\/sup><\/p>\n Reader characteristics:<\/strong>\u00a0Readers are likely to be well educated (often having a science or medical degree and an LIS degree) and to expect articles they can apply to improve the services they provide to their users. Readers have a shared interest in reference services, medical information, and technology. Subscribers to this journal seem to value well-researched and well-written articles that will help them in their work.<\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong>\u00a0Readers, given the specific nature and focus of this journal, will probably have a general knowledge of LIS subject matter with extensive, in-depth knowledge of medical reference services and research.<\/p>\n Readers and authors will likely be professionals and researchers already in the field of medical reference services. Furthermore, faculty and librarians involved with developing programs on information literacy, embedded librarianship, and library instruction directed to medical and clinical students, for example, will find practical, in-depth articles to read and a high-profile journal in which to publish.<\/p>\n Last updated:<\/strong>\u00a0February 7, 2018<\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly ISSN:\u00a00276-3869 (print),\u00a01540-9597 (online) Website:\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly | Current Issue Purpose, objective, or mission:\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly\u00a0\u201ccovers topics of current interest and practical value in the areas of reference in medicine and related specialties, the biomedical sciences, nursing, and allied health.\u201d The journal\u00a0publishes practice-oriented and research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"parent":2013,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2204\/revisions\/3565"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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