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10 Myths about PDAs - Debunked
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10 Solutions for processing large collections
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An analysis of reference services usage at a regional academic health sciences library
(Medical Library Association, 2010-10)The University of Illinois Crawford Library of the Health Sciences at Rockford (CLHS-R) has been serving University of Illinois College of Medicine faculty, students, and staff and the area community since 1972. CLHS-R is ... -
“Are you a computer?”: Opening Exchanges in Virtual Reference Shape the Potential for Teaching
(American Library Association, 2016-07)Academic reference librarians frequently work with students who are not aware of their professional roles. In online interactions, a student might not even realize that the librarian is a person. The ways students initiate ... -
Breadth of Coverage, Ease of Use, and Quality of Mobile Point-of-Care Tool Information Summaries: An Evaluation
(JMIR Publications, 2016-10)Background: With advances in mobile technology, accessibility of clinical resources at the point of care has increased. Objective: The objective of this research was to identify if six selected mobile point-of-care tools ... -
A brief history of reference assessment: no easy solutions
(Routledge, 2009-07)The author discusses the different methods of reference assessment that have been tried in libraries over the years to help improve service, justify the existence of the service itself, train new staff, and counter declining ... -
Citation Management
(UIC Library of the Health Sciences, 2012-09)A comparison of four common software programs which have a broad group of shared features and identify collaboration strengths and weaknesses to help UIC community members best select an appropriate software. -
Citation patterns of online and print journals in the digital age.
(Medical Library Association, 2008-10)PURPOSE: The research assesses the impact of online journals on citation patterns by examining whether researchers were more likely to limit the resources they cited to those journals available online rather than those ... -
Civic Values and Civic Librarianship: A Brief Reflection on John Carlo Bertot and the Development of Government Information Librarianship.
(University of Chicago Press, 2014-10)None -
Comparing test searches in PubMed and Google Scholar
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Comparison of three web-scale discovery services for health sciences research
(Medical Library Association, 2016-04)Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative effectiveness of three web-scale discovery (WSD) tools in answering health sciences search queries. Methods: Simple keyword searches, based on topics ... -
Conceptual Frameworks in the Study of Duty‐Hour Changes in Graduate Medical Education: A Review
(Association of American Medical Colleges, 2011-01)Purpose Conceptual frameworks are approaches to a research problem that specify key entities and their relationships. The 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on resident duty hours, subsequent studies, and published ... -
Coverage of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science: A case study of the h-index in nursing.
(Elsevier, 2012-11)PURPOSE: This study compares the articles cited in CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), and Google Scholar and the h-index ratings provided by Scopus, WOS, and Google Scholar. METHODS: The publications of 30 College of ... -
The data life cycle applied to our own data
(Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2015-01)A case study about learning the research data life cycle using library generated data. -
The data life cycle applied to our own data.
(Medical Library Association, 2015-01)Increased demand for data-driven decision making is driving the need for librarians to be facile with the data life cycle. This case study follows the migration of reference desk statistics from handwritten to digital ... -
DataONE: Open Persistent Access to Earth Observational Data
(2010-01-04)DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) and the Data Conservancy (DC) are the first two projects funded through the NSF DataNet program. DataONE is a new virtual organization that will enable innovative environmental ... -
“Deal or No Deal? Evaluating Big Deals and Their Journals”
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2013-03)This paper presents methods to develop metrics that compare Big Deal journal packages and the journals within those packages. Deal-level metrics guide selection of a Big Deal for termination. Journal-level metrics guide ... -
Digital Journals in 2003: Dramatic Growth, New Tools, and Economic Drama
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Digital Repositories: Not Quite at Your Fingertips
(K G Saur, 2005-12)The digital repository is a key technology used by today’s libraries to collect, organize, archive and make accessible electronic files of different types. This paper argues that while the vision of the role of the ...