TY - BOOK AU - Groen Frances TI - Access to medical knowledge: libraries, digitization, and the public good SN - 0810852721 AV - Z675.M4 PY - 2007/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Scarecrow Press KW - Medical informatics KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Medical libraries KW - Medical librarians KW - Information technology KW - Access to Information KW - ethics KW - Libraries Medical KW - History 19th Century KW - History 20th Century KW - Information Management KW - methods KW - Internet KW - history N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index; Librarians and their values -- Librarians, values, and the public good -- The origin of medical librarianship -- Early days in the profession -- The emergence of the medical library in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1940 -- The war and after, 1940-1960 -- Gaining ground in medical libraries, 1960-1990 -- Medical libraries in the age of the Internet -- Digitization and the Internet: a revolutionary context -- Consumer and patient information: convergence on the Internet -- New approaches to clinical medical information -- Is there a better way? -- The economics of scientific and medical information -- Toward open access -- New solutions in access to medical information -- Controlling copyright: the necessary balance UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020465.html ER -