Denise Smith

Head, Research Lifecycle (Librarian III)

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Library Department: Research Lifecycle

Email: dsmith@brocku.ca

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In the role of Head, Research Lifecycle, I work with the AUL, Research to understand and communicate with key stakeholders how expertise within the library contributes to the research enterprise at Brock University. Together, we identify key initiatives for the Research Lifecycle Department that can move the Library’s strategic priorities forward.

This expertise is available to all members of the Brock Community throughout the various stages of the research lifecycle: conception, planning, data collection, analysis, dissemination, and knowledge mobilization.

Research Interests

  • Information behaviour
  • Consumer health information
  • Wikipedia as a health information resource
  • Wikipedia’s and knowledge mobilization

Selected Publications

Wikipedia

Smith, D.A. (2023). “I’m Comfortable With It: User Stories of Health Information on Wikipedia”. First Monday, 28(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i8.12897

Smith, D. A. (2023). It’s Time to Recognize Wikipedia as a Health Information Resource. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 27(2), 210–220. https://doi.org/10.1080/15398285.2023.2211498. Pre-print manuscript: http://hdl.handle.net/10464/17862

Smith, D. A. (2021). Wikipedia: An unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship. Journal of Documentation, 78(3). https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-03-2021-0049

Raj, L., Smith, D. A., & Heilman, J. M. (2021). Does the packaging of health information affect the assessment of its reliability? A randomized controlled trial protocol. WikiJournal of Medicine, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.15347/WJM/2021.001

Smith, D. A. (2020). Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review. PloS One, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228786

Information Literacy

Smith, D.A., Sanger, S. (2023). Scaffolded, embedded required: information literacy education in undergraduate health sciences. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2(27). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10403113/

Smith, D.A. (2019). Re-visioning library support for undergraduate educational programmes in an academic health sciences library: A scoping review. Journal of Information Literacy, 13(2), 136–162. https://doi.org/10.11645/13.2.2520

Evidence Syntheses

Delisle, M., Alshamsan, B., Nagaratnam, K., Smith, D., Wang, Y., & Srikanthan, A. (2022). Metastasectomy in Leiomyosarcoma: A Systematic Review and Pooled Survival Analysis. Cancers, 14(13), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14133055

Wang, Y., Delisle, M., Smith, D., Alshamsan, B., & Srikanthan, A. (2022). Metastasectomy in synovial sarcoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 48(9), 1901–1910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2022.05.022

J. M. Bogie, B., Persaud, M. R., Smith, D., Kapczinski, F. P., & Frey, B. N. (2019). Explicit emotional memory biases in mood disorders: A systematic review. Psychiatry Research, 278, 162–172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.06.003

Courses

  • LIS 9320 Consumer Health Information (Western University)
  • HTHSCI 3E030 (McMaster University)