2. Overview
Understanding research within our subject
areas
Science Technology & Medicine databases
Helping graduate students in keeping up
with current research
Customized searches
Setting up public profiles
Supporting Open Access Publishing
Helping faculty members and students
understand the OA landscape
Future
3. Understanding research in our subject
areas
Understand and Open Access
highlight university Publishing ‐
research ‐ Sci Tech Med Databases, Publisher
databases: websites, Citations:
HealthLibDelicious , NetVibes_OA_Cite,
LibGuides, LibGuides
NetVibes_YUR
Research web: PubMed Central
Canada: CIHR
Librarians Policy for OA to
Research
Research
Newsletter. Graduate students &
Collection PubMed ‐ Customized
Development: searches:
SteacieLib Delicious NetVibes_Grad
LibGuides Students
5. Search fields in Web of Science
Address field
Funding Agency
Conduct your search
Create Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds
Display them
Analyze!
13. How does all this help?
Top journals where our researchers are publishing
Accreditation of our graduate programs
Aware of emerging research areas
Collection development
Support for OA publishers
Data analysis
Informed us about funded research
Implications for Research Officers
Publicized these tools
More engagement with faculty and students
More IL classes
16. For Graduate students
Following latest papers indexed in PubMed,
Scopus & Web of Science using innovative
features
MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) in PubMed +
Customized feeds
Means to highlight their teaching and
learning activities
Citation Management Programs e.g. Mendeley,
Academia.edu, ResearcherID, WizFolio
18. Did it help us?
Constant influx of students who need help
with literature review
Students appreciate the RSS feature and
want librarians to create feeds for their topics
Students come often and ask questions
related to:
Citation Management Programs
Setting up public profiles to display teaching &
learning activities
Library support (Article Processing Charges) for
publishing in OA journals
22. SWOT
Strengths
Use STM databases & technology tools to benefit our work
and liaison role
Weakness
Not enough promotion
Comprehensiveness of databases/searches?
Analytics of free tools? Usage & statistics
Opportunities
Means to understand departmental research
Liaison with Research Officers ‐ Bibliometrics
Customized portal for graduate students: LibGuides
Threats
Permanence of free technology tools