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Community Page Quality Information for Improved Health Patricia L.Thibodeau and Carla J. Funk “I look forward to such an organization of the literary records of medicine that a puzzled worker in any part of the civilized world shall in an hour be able to gain the knowledge pertaining to a subject of the experience of every other man in the world.” —George Gould, ?rst president of the Association of Medical Librarians (now the Medical Library Association), May 1898 study of health information sciences and the management of knowledge- based information, putting into practice MLA’s belief in open access. The association has supported open access to information in several other ways, including memberships in the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Information Access Alliance (IAA). MLA’s statement on open access, found at http:??/ government/info_access/openaccess_ statement.html, de?nes the MLA is furthering the concept of evidence-based medicine through its exploration and de?nition of expert searching techniques (see http:??/resources/ expert_search/) and the provision of continuing education opportunities in this area (see http:??/ education/telecon/ebhc/index.html). These techniques identify best practices and cutting-edge clinical and research knowledge and cull through a sometimes overwhelming amount of medical literature that continues to grow exponentially. MLA’s work in the area of expert searching was prompted by the increased F or over 100 years, the Medical Library Association (MLA) has upheld the belief that quality information is essential for improved health and has worked to ensure that health sciences librarians have the skills, knowledge, and association’s position on this important topic. However, open access increases leadership necessary for the delivery of information in a biomedical setting. The association has also promoted the concept of unrestricted, affordable, and permanent access of health the need for mo