Highlighting the Informationist As a Data Librarian Embedded in a Research Team

This issue of JESLIB focuses on the role of the Informationist or Embedded Librarian in the scientific research process. As biomedical science becomes more data intensive, researchers are faced with a range of data management challenges, problems, and needs. Health sciences librarians are ideal partners for offering scientists at their institutions a range of data management services. By providing these services, librarians are able to create an opportunity to connect and collaborate with a new group of users within their institution with whom they may not have interacted previously. Those librarians who provide these services may be called informationists or embedded librarians.