JEAHIL bibliometrician report 2025

Hello and welcome to the 2025 bibliometrician report summary!   As we reflect on 2025, it has been wonderful to see JEAHIL grow enormously, with a huge increase in usage across the board. We did only have partial figures available for 2024, so it is great to have full figures for 2025 – and what impressive figures they are!   2025 saw over 456,134 homepage views (442,12 more than recorded in 2024), 63,263 article landing page views (42,049 more than recorded in 2024) and 44,274 article downloads (32,612 more than recorded in 2024).   The most accessed article was “AI and generative AI in health and medical libraries: a scoping review of present use and emerging potential” by Shampa Sen, with 1,785 views. The most accessed issue was Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025), with 344 views.   Our focus in 2025 continues to be on indexing JEAHIL in as many relevant databases as possible, to increase our discoverability – making it easier for existing readers to come across us and for new readers to discover us

Evidence-Based Information Special Interest Group: year report 2025

2025 has been another busy year for the Evidence-Based Information Special Interest group (EBI-SIG). We held an in-person meeting at the 2025 EAHIL Conference in Łódź and the following week we held our official SIG annual meeting online. We also ran two journal club meetings and one webinar. Our active projects continued to make progress and we were delighted to start two new projects. This report provides details of these activities

Diamond Open Access and journals published in the field of Library and Information Science: a study on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Open Access (OA) advocates are increasingly recognizing that the Article Processing Charge (APC)-based model should be overcome to develop alternative solutions capable of enabling the full and definitive establishment of OA in scholarly publishing. The Diamond OA model is seen as one of the possible solutions even if the journals using this model must cope with sustainability problems along with visibility issues. With the aim of assessing its current use among the Library and Information Science (LIS) Diamond OA journals, this study analyses their presence in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Piloting an Information Literacy Framework for one-to-one teaching at the University of Oxford

This case study evaluates practical uses of an adapted version of the Jisc Digital Capabilities Framework for one-to-one teaching in the Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford. Predicted frequency of teaching twelve framework skills was compared with observed practice. The content of ten one-to-ones with postgraduate taught, postgraduate research, and clinical medical students was mapped against the framework\u27s twelve skills. Valuable applications of the framework included prioritisation of training for new instructors, and prompting librarians to suggest additional topics that users may not request spontaneously. The skills list could also act as a “menu” or service catalogue when arranging sessions. However, effective one-to-one teaching should remain flexible and responsive to the user\u27s needs, rather than following a strict checklist. Keywords: libraries, medical; education, medical, continuing; information literacy; competency-based education; case stud

Three years of teaching about generative AI

Ever since ChatGPT was launched, we – a writing instructor and a librarian – have been teaching extensively together about generative AI. Our first workshop generated numerous additional workshops for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators – and we were invited to contexts we had formerly not been invited to. We have always focused on AI in relation to searching and writing, but also addressed additional aspects such as AI and learning. Teaching together has added additional value, since our fields of expertise complement each other. In a rapidly changing field, we have focused on collaborative learning, expressed a non-judgemental attitude, and always welcomed discussions. Finally, generative AI has brought our areas of expertise – information literacy and writing – to the top of the agenda