BrowZine: A Review

BrowZine, an app designed for tablets, allows users to browse, save, organize, and read journals and journal articles from open source or subscribed journals. This article will highlight some of the features of the product

Get the Right Fit: Strategies for Navigating Author Rights and Access

Supporting research at PCOM is one of the core missions of the PCOM Library. Librarians have been leaders in the movement for expanded sharing of scholarship. Scholarly publishing is undergoing fundamental transformations and the PCOM Library wants to help you understand how these changes impact your scholarly endeavors. Here are some resources and ideas that can assist faculty, staff, and students with scholarly publishing and data management

What Factors Contribute to or Inhibit Publishing Among Medical Librarians

OBJECTIVE: To discover what factors influence librarians to publish or present their work. The study aims to determine what type of publications and presentations are most prevalent, what external factors impact the decision to publish or present, what internal factors affect the decision, and why one chooses to do one rather than the other or both.https://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/posters/1000/thumbnail.jp

Get the Right Fit: Strategies For Making Your Work More Visible

Supporting research is one of the core missions of the PCOM Library, and “publish or perish” is still a central concern for faculty even with the fundamental transformation underway in the scholarly publishing industry. The PCOM Library wants to help you understand how these changes impact your research work.Here are some resources and ideas that can assist faculty, staff, and students with communicating your research and expanding its audience .Learn more about Selected Works faculty pages and how the library can enhance your scholarly works

The Future of Conferences: Adapting to a New Way of Life

Objectives This paper examines the changes to conferences over the past year and a half and recommends a path forward. The authors will discuss the challenges and opportunities of these changes and what that can mean for future conferences. Methods The authors used their own experiences of attending and planning conferences and a review of current literature to develop recommendations for future conference programming. Results We identified several benefits and challenges of online meetings. The benefits include offering similar content at a lower cost, more flexible and dynamic content, and a broader range of speakers and attendees. The challenges include little to no opportunities to network, fewer collaborative opportunities, and employer willingness to pay for virtual meetings or allow total commitment to attend each session. Conclusions Conference chairs and planners can use the knowledge and experiences gained from recent experiences to create more engaging and inclusive conferences that can reach a broader audience. They can accomplish this goal by offering hybrid conferences with synchronous and asynchronous events

Art, Technology, Medicine: Creativity and Innovation in the Health Sciences

Objectives: Our goal was to introduce our community to ways that creative or technological arts intersect with the healing arts. The event brought our community together for fun and stress relief, while teaching about different aspects of medical education, patient education, and therapy. Methods: Drawing on the expertise of staff outside of the Library allowed us to enrich programming and make it interprofessional. The event had four components: Graphic Medicine, Art and Music Therapy, Gaming Technologies, and Health and Wellness. Each station included an example of the component, description of the modality, and a digital literature list. Results: We asked attendees to fill out a satisfaction survey indicating whether they liked, were indifferent to, or disliked the station. Survey completion at each station ranged from 14-55; however, not all attendees filled out the survey. We received verbal feedback from station moderators, attendees, and passers-by that will help improve future events. Responses to each station were overwhelmingly positive, and many expressed their excitement for next year’s event. Conclusions: Our analysis revealed areas for improvement. We noticed that stations that had interactive elements resulted in more engagement. Stations without interactive components received more traffic, but the audience spent less time at the station and were less engaged. Because of these results, we plan to incorporate an activity into each station next year

A Feather in Our Research Cap: Implementing REDCap in the Library

The PCOM Library works to facilitate and support research across all disciplines. One method in which the Library incorporates this concept is by implementing, promoting, and teaching REDCap, a tool for data capture and for building and managing online surveys and databases. This poster presents the PCOM Library’s experiences with all steps of planning and implementing REDCap, along with lessons learned and future steps

Rethinking the Core List of Journals for Libraries that Serve Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy.

The Core List of Journals for Libraries that Serve Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy is a guide for developing and maintaining pharmacy-affiliated library collections. A work group was created to update the list and design a process for updating that will streamline future revisions. Work group members searched the National Library of Medicine catalog for an initial list of journals and then applied inclusion criteria to narrow the list. The work group finalized the fifth edition of the list with 225 diverse publications and produced a sustainable set of criteria for journal inclusion, providing a structured, objective process for future updates

Systematic reviews and tech mining: A methodological comparison with case study

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147169/1/jrsm1318_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147169/2/jrsm1318.pd

The Digitization of Historical Artifacts in a Hospital Library

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