Medical education and information literacy in the era of open access.
The Open Access movement in scholarly communications poses new issues and concerns for medical education in general and information literacy education specifically. For medical educators, Open Access can affect the availability of new information, instructional materials, and scholarship in medical education. For students, Open Access materials continue to be available to them post-graduation, regardless of affiliation. Libraries and information literacy librarians are challenged in their responses to the Open Access publishing movement in how best to support Open Access endeavors within their own institutions, and how best to educate their user base about Open Access in general.
Brower
Stewart M
SM
University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135, USA. stewart-brower@ouhsc.edu
D022126:Access to Information; D003197:Computer Literacy; D004501:Education, Medical; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007993:Libraries, Medical