Ten Steps for Setting Up an Online Journal Club

Chan, Teresa M.; Thoma, Brent; Radecki, Ryan P.; Topf, Joel Michels; Woo, Henry H.; Kao, Lillian S.; Cochran, Amalia; Hiremath, Swapnil; Lin, Michelle

doi:10.1002/chp.21275

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“…With social media, we can do much more than passively digest information; online journal clubs and other constructivist platforms have emerged, harnessing our new connectivity to foster discussions between clinicians around the world. 17 Modern interconnectivity can move us from simply reading about novel therapies, treatments, and initiatives to discussing them with the scientists who developed them and content experts across the world. This engagement between scientists and learned audience members will keep the scientific community vibrant.…”

Section: The Future Of Evidence-based Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence-based medicine in the era of social media: Scholarly engagement through participation and online interaction

Chan

Trueger

Roland

et al. 2017

CJEM

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The integration of new knowledge into clinical practice continues to lag behind discovery. The use of Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) has disrupted communication between emergency physicians, making it easy for practicing clinicians to interact with colleagues from around the world to discuss the latest and highest impact research. FOAM has the potential to decrease the knowledge translation gap, but the concerns raised about its growing influence are 1) research that is translated too quickly may cause harm if its findings are incorrect; 2) there is little editorial oversight of online material; and 3) eminent online individuals may develop an outsized influence on clinical practice. We propose that new types of scholars are emerging to moderate the changing landscape of knowledge translation: 1) critical clinicians who critically appraise research in the same way that lay reviewers critique restaurants; 2) translational teachers adept with these new technologies who will work with researchers to disseminate their findings effectively; and 3) interactive investigators who engage with clinicians to ensure that their findings resonate and are applied at the bedside. The development of these scholars could build on the promise of evidence-based medicine by enhancing the appraisal and translation of research in practice. RÉSUMÉEncore aujourd'hui, il s'écoule un certain temps entre les découvertes et l'intégration des nouvelles connaissances dans la pratique clinique. L'arrivée du mouvement Free Open Access Meducation (FOAM) a bouleversé les communications entre les médecins d'urgence, en permettant aux praticiens d'interagir facilement avec des homologues de partout dans le monde pour discuter des derniers travaux de recherche et de ceux qui ont la plus forte incidence. Le mouvement FOAM peut certes combler des lacunes en matière d'application des connaissances, mais son utilisation soulève des préoccupations quant à son influence grandissante : 1) l'application trop rapide des résultats de la recherche peut s'avérer préjudiciable si les constatations sont erronées; 2) la documentation en ligne échappe en grande partie à la supervision rédactionnelle; 3) des personnes de renom en ligne peuvent finir par exercer une influence trop grande en pratique clinique. Aussi les auteurs de l'article proposent-ils que de nouveaux types d'érudits voient le jour afin de régler le monde en mutation de l'application des connaissances. Ainsi, les cliniciens critiques feraient l'évaluation critique de la recherche à la manière des critiques profanes de restaurants; les formateurs en application des connaissances, versés dans le domaine des nouvelles techniques, travailleraient en collaboration avec les chercheurs à la diffusion efficace des résultats de leurs travaux; et les chercheurs interactifs s'engageraient dans des échanges avec les cliniciens afin de s'assurer que leurs résultats trouvent bel et bien écho dans la pratique clinique. La formation de ces groupes d'érudits pourrait prendre appui sur les grands p...

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Section: The Future Of Evidence-based Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence-based medicine in the era of social media: Scholarly engagement through participation and online interaction

Chan

Trueger

Roland

et al. 2017

CJEM

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“…Besides maintaining accounts, which are often used to share news and articles, some journals have started to ask authors to create Wikipedia articles (Butler, ; Maskalyk, ), and to provide so‐called tweetable abstracts that journals can use to promote papers (Darling, Shiffman, Côté, & Drew, ). Some journals have created online journal clubs to encourage community discussions about articles (Chan et al, ). Most use Twitter (Chan et al, ; Gardhouse, Budd, Yang, & Wong, ; Leung, Siassakos, & Khan, ; Mehta & Flickinger, ; Thangasamy et al, ), but some use other social media tools such as blogs, live videos, and podcasts (Rezaie, Swaminathan, Chan, Shaikh, & Lin, ; Thoma, Rolston, & Lin, ).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Understanding the Twitter usage of humanities and social sciences academic journals

Raamkumar

Erdt

Vijayakumar

et al. 2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Scholarly communication has the scope to transcend the limitations of the physical world through social media's extended coverage and shortened information paths. Accordingly, publishers have created profiles for their journals in Twitter to promote their publications and to initiate discussions with public. This paper investigates the Twitter presence of humanities and social sciences (HSS) journal titles obtained from mainstream citation indices, by analysing the interaction and communication patterns. This study utilizes webometric data collection, descriptive analysis, and social network analysis. Findings indicate that the presence of HSS journals in Twitter across disciplines is not yet substantial. Sharing of general websites appears to be the key activity performed by HSS journals in Twitter. Among them, web content from news portals and magazines are highly disseminated. Sharing of research articles and retweeting was not majorly observed. Inter‐journal communication is apparent within the same citation index, but it is very minimal with journals from the other index. However, there seems to be an effort to broaden communication beyond the research community, reaching out to connect with the public.

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“…Given our desire for HILJ Club to be as open to participation as possible and the distributed nature of the readership, an online base is logical. A Twitter chat format was considered as one widely adopted by other professional groups (Chan et al, ; Topf et al, ), and health library workers were known to be active on this platform. However with a number of Twitter chats already in evidence (#ukmedlibs, #uklibchat, etc), we thought we had an opportunity to try something different (CILIP, ).…”

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An open invitation to join HILJ [Journal] Club

Fricker

Roper

2019

Health Info Libraries J

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Journal clubs are an effective means to increase skills in handling evidence and support the continuing professional development of library and knowledge services workers. This editorial examines the progression of HILJ Club, an online journal club, from an idea to the launch of a dedicated platform. One article is selected per issue of the Health Information and Libraries Journal with an open discussion invited following a brief summary and reflections by a host. Participation in HILJ Club is growing. Future success is reliant on wider engagement, and an invitation is extended to join in the discussions or even host an edition.

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Ten Steps for Setting Up an Online Journal Club

Cited by 71 publications

References 18 publications

Evidence-based medicine in the era of social media: Scholarly engagement through participation and online interaction

Evidence-based medicine in the era of social media: Scholarly engagement through participation and online interaction

Understanding the Twitter usage of humanities and social sciences academic journals

An open invitation to join HILJ [Journal] Club

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