photograph of Denise Smith (Mcbrarian) in April 2020
Denise Smith (Mcbrarian) in April 2020

Introduction

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My name is Denise Smith. I am an academic librarian in Ontario, Canada. I research Wikipedia as a public health information resouece and consumer health information behaviour.

Research interests and academics

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  • I research Wikipedia as a health information resource and health information behaviour
  • I am (slowly) working towards becoming a more active editor on Wikipedia and Wikidata making any contributions of value that fall within my skill set or expertise
  • Feel free to ask me about my research interests or for comment on qualitiative research methods, systematic reviews, health librarianship and information/digital literacy
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  1. Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: a scoping review (PLOSOne) [1]
  2. Does the packaging of health information affect the assessment of its reliability? A randomized controlled trial protocol[2]
  3. Wikipedia and consumer health
  4. Wikipedia: An unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship (Journal of Documentation)[3]
  5. It's Time to Recognize Wikipedia as a Health Information Resource (Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet)[4]
  6. "I'm Comfortable With It": User Stories of Health Information on Wikipedia" (First Monday)[5]
  7. Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: A key tool for information literacy & knowledge translation[6]
  8. Citations in Wikipedia for understanding research reach[7]
  1. Smith, Denise A. (2020). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PloS One 15 (2): e0228786. ISSN 1932-6203. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786. 
  2. Raj, Leela; Smith, Denise; Heilman, James (2021). "Does the packaging of health information affect the assessment of its reliability? A randomized controlled trial protocol". WikiJournal of Medicine 8 (1): 1. ISSN 2002-4436. doi:10.15347/wjm/2021.001. 
  3. Smith, Denise A. (2021-01-01). "Wikipedia: an unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship". Journal of Documentation 78 (3): 696–708. ISSN 0022-0418. doi:10.1108/JD-03-2021-0049. Archived from the original on 2021. 
  4. Smith, Denise A. (2023-04-03). "It’s Time to Recognize Wikipedia as a Health Information Resource". Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet 27 (2): 210–220. ISSN 1539-8285. doi:10.1080/15398285.2023.2211498. Archived from the original on 2023. 
  5. Smith, Denise A. (2023-08-12). "“I’m comfortable with it”: User stories of health information on Wikipedia". First Monday. ISSN 1396-0466. doi:10.5210/fm.v28i8.12897. 
  6. Smith, Denise (2023-12-01). "Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation". Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada 44 (3). ISSN 1708-6892. PMC PMC11081111 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 38737529 Check |pmid= value (help). doi:10.29173/jchla29688. 
  7. Smith, Denise; McKinnell, Jennifer; Young, Jack (2024-05-22). "Citations in Wikipedia for understanding research reach". Journal of the Medical Library Association 112 (2): 88–94. ISSN 1558-9439. PMC PMC11305477 Check |pmc= value (help). PMID 39119167 Check |pmid= value (help). doi:10.5195/jmla.2024.1730.