Using Netvibes to create a current awareness service in healthcare Jason Curtis Electronic Resources Librarian Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries

The dilemma How to provide current awareness to a diverse range of departments and professions? How to avoid duplicating work already being done elsewhere in the NHS? The solution? Netvibes! www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries

How to provide current awareness to a diverse range of departments and professions?

How to avoid duplicating work already being done elsewhere in the NHS?

The solution? Netvibes!

www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries

Why Netvibes? Easy to add RSS feeds from any source Easy to create public pages (Universes) with multiple ‘tabs’ No need for our users to register or login to view the site

Easy to add RSS feeds from any source

Easy to create public pages (Universes) with multiple ‘tabs’

No need for our users to register or login to view the site

Our Netvibes page contains… Multiple ‘tabs’ for a range of subjects

Multiple ‘tabs’ for a range of subjects

Our Netvibes page contains… Contents of the latest journals, automatically updated

Contents of the latest journals, automatically updated

Our Netvibes page contains… Latest news from National Library for Health Specialist Libraries and other sources

Latest news from National Library for Health Specialist Libraries and other sources

Our Netvibes page contains… Recent books added to our libraries (via Shelfari widgets)

Recent books added to our libraries (via Shelfari widgets)

RSS feeds come from… National Library for Health (Specialist Libraries and other feeds from the RSS directory) National electronic Library for Medicine BMJ and AMA Journals (full-text for NHS Athens) BioMed Central journals (free full-text) MedWorn (pre-configured and search query results

National Library for Health (Specialist Libraries and other feeds from the RSS directory)

National electronic Library for Medicine

BMJ and AMA Journals (full-text for NHS Athens)

BioMed Central journals (free full-text)

MedWorn (pre-configured and search query results

More RSS feeds… EBSCOHost databases (CINAHL full-text and Health Business elite) Provide RSS feeds for journals in full-text and journals held in our libraries

EBSCOHost databases (CINAHL full-text and Health Business elite)

Provide RSS feeds for journals in full-text and journals held in our libraries

Advantages of the site Shows the range of journals available in a given subject Access to full-text at article level (where available) Showcase RSS feeds available for a given subject Assists users who don’t want to set up an RSS reader or search for feeds

Shows the range of journals available in a given subject

Access to full-text at article level (where available)

Showcase RSS feeds available for a given subject

Assists users who don’t want to set up an RSS reader or search for feeds

Promoting local resources Provides contents for journals purchased in print for our libraries Displays covers of our new books by subject Somewhere to display our local RSS feeds (such as our blog and local staff publications on Connotea)

Provides contents for journals purchased in print for our libraries

Displays covers of our new books by subject

Somewhere to display our local RSS feeds (such as our blog and local staff publications on Connotea)

The idea of browsing… Recreating the current journals display (but in this case, more usefully ‘shelved’ by subject) Finding interesting articles by serendipity See covers of new books on your topic (rather than just a list of all books for the previous month)

Recreating the current journals display (but in this case, more usefully ‘shelved’ by subject)

Finding interesting articles by serendipity

See covers of new books on your topic (rather than just a list of all books for the previous month)

Email alerts Feedback has shown that users still like email alerts We’re using Yahoo! Pipes and Feedburner to create email subscription services for each tab Users will receive an email each day something new appears on their chosen tab

Feedback has shown that users still like email alerts

We’re using Yahoo! Pipes and Feedburner to create email subscription services for each tab

Users will receive an email each day something new appears on their chosen tab

The ‘social’ aspect Our users and other health libraries can: Copy feeds on our page to their own Netvibes page Clone our Yahoo! Pipes to create their own combined feeds Post comments and feedback on our wall

Our users and other health libraries can:

Copy feeds on our page to their own Netvibes page

Clone our Yahoo! Pipes to create their own combined feeds

Post comments and feedback on our wall

The future… New feeds from the proposed NHS England alerting service can be added when available More subject tabs will be added Email alerts will be made available for each tab We’ll do an evaluation of the site after six months www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries

New feeds from the proposed NHS England alerting service can be added when available

More subject tabs will be added

Email alerts will be made available for each tab

We’ll do an evaluation of the site after six months

www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries