Mary Adams, the Nursing and Health Sciences Librarian at UMass Dartmouth, received the 2008 PH/HA Research Award for the best paper in the field of public health or health administration librarianship at the Medical Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago on May 20th.
Ms. Adams co-authored the award winning article with Kris Alpi of North Carolina State University. The article identified the most cited journals in public health and community nursing and the databases that provided the most thorough indexing of these journals.
Alpi KM, Adams MG.
Mapping the literature of public health and community nursing.
J Med Libr Assoc 2007 Jan;95(1):e6-9.