Canadian DTCA Charter Challenge Indefinitely Adjourned…and a tree falls in the forest

The News
In the middle of financial turbulence, potential bankruptcy, and a storm of management changes, CanWest Global has decided to seek indefinite adjournment of their court case challenging Canadian restrictions on direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs.  In summary, CanWest was alleging that the ban on certain types of DTCA was infringing on their freedom [...]

Just an update

There are 3 partially-written Big Posts I’ve been meaning to finish up and get out on the blog lately:
1)    Weighing electronic medical records and privacy concerns
2)    Abandoning the “Serials Crisis” argument in open access discourse
3)    The Elsevier “fake journals” scandal, Bentham “fake articles” scandal, current ghostwriting and industry-sponsored journal practices, and what health librarians can [...]

Embarrassing confessional: I am the faculty we complain about

At the Canadian Health Libraries Association conference in Winnipeg this year, there was a fair amount of talk about getting librarians (particularly academic librarians) out of the library and embedded into classes. I’m all rah-rah and yeah, that’s right along with everyone else, until I think about my own classes…into which I don’t invite the [...]