Dear All
Please find below the call for speakers for the HBS Satellite meeting in Dublin.
Kind regards
Octavia
Call for Speakers - IFLA Health and Bioosciences Section Satellite meeting, 29 July 2022, Dublin, Ireland
Exploring How Open Science and Open Access Influence the Spread of Health Misinformation and Disinformation and How Librarians Can Help
The IFLA Health and Biosciences Section in collaboration with the Health Sciences Libraries Group of the Library Association of Ireland and the Evidence for Global and Disaster Health Special Interest Group are co-sponsoring a satellite meeting in conjunction with the 2022 IFLA World Library and Information Congress. The theme of the meeting is “Exploring How Open Science and Open Access Influence the Spread of Health Misinformation and Disinformation and How Librarians Can Help” and we invite expressions of interest from speakers for this important discussion.
In an 8 November 2021 Inside Higher Ed article, titled "As Misinformation Grows, Scholars Debate How to Improve Open Access", Roger Schonfeld, Director for Libraries, Scholarly Communications, and Museums for Ithaka S&R, calls for librarians to take an active role to prevent misinformation in the Open Access Movement.
In response, this half-day seminar will explore the strengths of the Open Movement - e.g.. potential to widely share health data and information; and its vulnerabilities - e.g. proneness to misinformation, fraud, and politicization. TThe seminar will also highlight how librarians and information professionals have overcome issues with open access in low-resourced areas, such as the issue of preprint quality, energy/Internet insecurity, and/or publishing in open access journals.
The seminar will be held in-person the morning (Ireland time zone) of 29 July 2022 in the Boardroom of Dr. Steevens Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Submissions expressing interest in speaking on this theme and these topics should include:
Name, title, institution, country, and email of speaker(s)
Brief bio of each speaker
Discussion topic
And should be directed to planners Bethany McGowan bmcgowa@purdue.edu and Niamh Lucey at niamh.lucey@ucd.ie before 29 April 2022.
HIFA profile: Octavia-Luciana Madge is anassociate professor of informationscience at the University of Bucharest. She is an elected member of the European Association for Health Information andLibraries (EAHIL) Council and member of the Standing Committee Health and Biosciences Libraries (HBS) of the International Federation ofLibrary Associations and Institutions (IFLA). She is also a medical doctor, member of the Bucharest College of Physicians and of the Romanian Society of Surgery. Her current research interests include communication in healthcare, knowledge management, health information behaviour, and general surgery. Emailaddress: octavialucianamadge AT yahoo.com
