title: Library links on medical school home pages.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the websites of American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)-member medical schools for the presence of library links. Sixty-one percent (n = 92) of home pages of the 150 member schools of the AAMC contain library links. For the 58 home pages not offering such links, 50 provided a pathway of two or three clicks to a library link. The absence of library links on 39% of AAMC medical school home pages indicates that the designers of those pages did not consider the library to be a primary destination for their visitors.
authors.affiliation: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 West Markham Street, Little Rock, AK 72205-7199, USA. slthomas2@uams.edu
authors.forename: Sheila L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D016243:Library Collection Development; D012577:Schools, Medical; D014481:United States