Abstract
Health sciences librarians serve society by making needed health-related information available to our users. The Medical Library Association's (MLA's) slogan, “Professionals providing quality information for improved health”; the 2010 revised MLA Code of Ethics [1]; and the American Library Association's code of ethics [2] all reflect our profession's central purpose. One formal research study on the core values of librarians and information professionals also verified that, on the international scale, our profession seeks to provide access to quality information [3].
Highlights
Health sciences librarians serve society by making needed healthrelated information available to our users
The pages of the Journal of the Medical Library Association have been alive in recent years with discussions of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy [4,5,6,7]
While the current NIH public access policy might fall short of many health sciences librarians’ open access ideals, it appears to be the most viable mechanism in place to promote the public availability of federally funded research articles in healthrelated subject domains
Summary
Health sciences librarians serve society by making needed healthrelated information available to our users. The pages of the Journal of the Medical Library Association have been alive in recent years with discussions of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy [4,5,6,7].
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