SafetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature

http://www.safetylit.org/

SafetyLit History

The idea for SafetyLit came from a service provided in the early- to mid-1990s by Sandy Bonzo, a librarian with the U.S. CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. That bibliographic update was a print-out of article citations from Medline that were indexed with selected MeSH terms relevant to the treatment and prevention of injuries. That valuable service ended in 1995.

To help fill the gap from that loss, SafetyLit began in 1995 as a simple email message with injury prevention-related citations sent to about 20 people affiliated with the CDC-funded Disability Prevention Program in Louisiana and a few other states. As more and more people learned about SafetyLit the mailing list expanded. By the end of 1998 the updates were circulated to more than 5000 addresses. By the close of 1999 the address list had expanded beyond 15,000.

During 1999, several publishing companies began electronically supplying their journal article citation and abstract data to SafetyLit and the journal sources expanded far beyond what was available through PubMed. In 2001 the service moved from a series of flat-file newsletters to a database-driven dynamic website. With that improvement, an archive database with search capacity was established. From that time forward each week saw the addition of about 300 recently-published articles and more than 700 articles from the back-files of journals that publish relevant material.

The SafetyLit Foundation assumed responsibility for SafetyLit operations in September 2013. The SafetyLit Foundation is approved as a 501(c)(3) public charity by the United States Internal Revenue Service.

A Board of Directors and a Science Advisory Committee help guide the foundation and the contents of online services.

The database exceeded 445,000 items in September 2014. The SafetyLit website receives more than 50,000 unique visitors each month.

 

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