Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce

Simply called Partners, the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce helps the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health. Fourteen different organizations are Partners for this initiative. The offerings for public health workers include information access and management, grant writing, needs assessment, and training; sponsoring meetings, workshops and lots more.
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Wellcome Images

https://wellcomeimages.org/Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections. While it covers several subjects, it definitely has images in medical history,contemporary healthcare, biomedical sciences and more. To be specific, the collection includes images of clinical conditions, medical equipment, diseases, light microscopy, Xrays, MRI - right up to the latest - 3D printing. To know more - first read the About Us section in the website and then search and find all that you need! Lots of images are free to use under the Creative Commons License. The terms of use overall are available in the Services section of…
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News – Beall’s list (predatory publishers and journals) – disappears

In the last few years the Beall's list - a list of predatory journals and publishers - maintained by a librarian from Denver USA, was referred to heavily, to understand how several journals were mushrooming under the guise of being Open Access, but were actually just making money and publishing mainly pseudoscience. There were arguments about the list - some claiming that Beall was going too far in  his judgements, but majority found the list to be a major source to check out about journals. The list suddenly vanished from the blog!   
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