Abstract
There has been a shift in the workflow at academic biomedical research and clinical care centers to promote more efficient clinical and community implementation of bench discoveries. Strong financial support for this effort is provided by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded to about sixty biomedical research institutions constituting the CTSA Consortium [1]. CTSAs offer an opportunity to speed the translation of bench discoveries to improved human health by transforming the
Highlights
There has been a shift in the workflow at academic biomedical research and clinical care centers to promote more efficient clinical and community implementation of bench discoveries
This paper describes current and potential librarybased support efforts for clinical and translational research and puts these activities into the context of key function areas (KFAs), following the national-level organizational scheme of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) Key Function Committees [4] to support the goals of translational science
The Evaluation Key function committee (KFC) is focused on issues related to evaluation of local CTSIs and issues related to the national program, through sharing information about evaluation approaches, challenges, and progress
Summary
There has been a shift in the workflow at academic biomedical research and clinical care centers to promote more efficient clinical and community implementation of bench discoveries. J Med Lib Assoc 101(4) October 2013 research enterprise at the local, regional, and national levels These efforts include large-scale infrastructure projects, institution-wide coordination and provision of services, incentives to facilitate collaboration and teambased science, and education programs designed to train the generation of researchers. In this age of translational science, biomedical libraries can provide critical support. The library-based TSI support activities reported in this paper were obtained through an environmental scan consisting of personal experiences, a literature search, an Internet review of conference presentations [3, 5,6,7,8,9,10,11], results of brainstorming activities conducted at continuing education (CE) courses [12, 13], and services provided by the authors at their respective institutions. References denote published sources; other examples were derived as described above
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