Michele Klein-Fedyshin, Research and Clinical Instruction Librarian at HSLS, and Andrea Ketchum, Research and Instruction Librarian Emerita, won the 2024 Ida and George Eliot Prize for publication from the Medical Library Association (MLA). This is a national award and the most prestigious recognition for a publication in the field.
This prize was established by Ida and George Eliot, former owners of Eliot Health Sciences Books, Long Island City, New York. The Eliot Prize is presented annually for a work published in the preceding calendar year that has been judged most effective in furthering medical librarianship. The committee judged publications according to the following criteria: contribution to the profession, impact, arrangement of information, and expression of content.
HSLS supported our time on this national project, and the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Statistics contributed statistical consulting.
The award recognizes the publication titled “PubMed’s Core Clinical Journals Filter: Redesigned for Contemporary Clinical Impact and Utility.” It describes the data-driven analysis performed using real-world evidence evaluating usage of journals in clinical environments. It incorporated patient-driven factors including frequent discharge diagnoses, Healthy People goals, and popular medical topics to determine the subjects needing coverage in a PubMed clinical journals filter and added ranked, highly used journals in those subjects.
The MLA awards ceremony honoring the recipients will occur on April 16, 2024.
We appreciate the recognition of our efforts on the project and publication that this award represents.
~Michele Klein-Fedyshin