User:Davidl53
I am retired after working for 40+ years in public health with a focus on how researchers and practitioners go about information-seeking tasks. I have contributed to Wikipedia pages of several literature databases such as PubMed. I've started others such as SafetyLit and Transportation Research International Documentation (TRID is a free service of the US National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board). I hold graduate degrees from Tulane University in New Orleans and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
I believe that everyone should have an opportunity to have access to an index to the literature that can help them to make sound decisions. I have for at least 35 years (as of 2021) volunteered with projects that provide indices to journal articles, technical reports, and theses. I provide journal article metadata and abstracts to SafetyLit and to several other free government-provided, university-provided, and NGO-sponsored literature databases. While there is certainly a place for subscription databases that are at major universities, agencies within city, county, and state governments in the USA and across the world cannot budget for these high cost services. Yet, these need information to recognize problems and identify solutions that work in their communities. I continue to volunteer with free-to-use literature databases.
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