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

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

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

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

6. Research from School of Kinesiology,
Vision Research & Psychology using Address
field in Web of Science (WoS)

7. Include relevant departments: WoS
Grant Funded Research

8. Analyze your results

9. Create RSS Feeds: Scopus & Web of
Science

10. Delicious:
Capture Research
Facets

11. LibGuides: Customized display

12. NetVibes: Display Research
Activities
Open to All

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

14. Support Journal of Vision? Scopus & Web of
Science
data using Affiliation search

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

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

17. Graduate students Research Portal
Open to All

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

19. Papers with Faculty & PhD students

20. York University Libraries: Open Access
Publishing

21. Open Access to Research: Engaging Faculty
Data from RSS feeds of STM databases &
OA publisher websites

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