Embedded librarians: An innovative experience in health and wellness communication.
The article discusses the experiences of Italian librarians taking part in an institutional project to produce a new general‐public‐oriented health web portal. The web portal was set up to provide verified and easily understandable health information, and to debunk health‐related fake news circulati...
| Published in: | Health Information & Libraries Journal Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 194 - 198 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2022
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