Nariani - Enticing Graduate Students and Faculty Members: Librarians Creating Research Webs

Rajiv NarianiYork University Libraries Toronto, Canada LILAC 2011 18th April 2011 rajivn@yorku.ca

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

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

Web of Science (WoS) Affiliation and departmental searching Papers acknowledging grant funding Analysis featureScopus  Tracking Open Access publications  Good for citation analysis  Affiliation / department specific papers – RSS feeds more durable than WoSPubMed  Kinesiology Graduate students

Search fields in Web of Science  Address field  Funding Agency Conduct your search Create Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds Display them  Analyze!

Research from School of Kinesiology, Vision Research & Psychology using Addressfield in Web of Science (WoS)

Include relevant departments: WoS Grant Funded Research

Analyze your results

Create RSS Feeds: Scopus & Web of Science

Delicious: Capture Research Facets

LibGuides: Customized display

NetVibes: Display Research Activities Open to All

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

Support Journal of Vision? Scopus & Web of Sciencedata using Affiliation search

FSE Research Officer: Scopus RSS Feeds on Faculty of Science & Engineering page

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

Graduate students Research Portal Open to All

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

Papers with Faculty & PhD students

York University Libraries: Open Access Publishing

Open Access to Research: Engaging FacultyData from RSS feeds of STM databases & OA publisher websites

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

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