Submitting to MedEdPORTAL: Do it right the first time

Presented as a Small Group/Roundtable Discussion at 2020 IUSM Education Day.Medical educators at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) are encouraged to publish in MedEdPORTAL: The Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources. Published by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), MedEdPORTAL is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for medical education scholarship. These publications contain complete curricula, including objectives, instructor guides, slides, and assessments, ready to be implemented in the classroom. When faculty members apply for promotion, MedEdPORTAL can demonstrate the quality of their work through peer-review, citation counts, and other usage reports. Despite submitting high quality learning modules, medical educators receive rejections from the MedEdPORTAL 62% of time. Reasons for rejection include insufficient educational context and assessment, mismatch of educational objectives and instructional content, and failure to build on existing curricula. Of immediately rejected submissions, 90% also have copyright issues. MedEdPORTAL is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and therefore has strict requirements for copyright and licensing images in the education materials. These requirements are difficult to navigate. For faculty who are not familiar with copyright and licensing, these barriers can be frustrating enough to deter them from submitting curricula. This workshop introduced MedEdPORTAL, described the submission process, and shared our strategies for putting together a successful submission. By the end of the workshop, participants were able to: • Identify curricula they have developed that would fit with the goals of MedEdPORTAL’s publishers • Use template to complete the Educational Summary Report (ESR) • Classify content as that which requires copyright permission, is in the public domain, or has a Creative Commons license • Navigate the process of manuscript submission and revisio

Claim your online scholarly presence: ORCiD

Presented as a Small Group/Roundtable Discussion at 2020 IUSM Education Day.Claiming, maintaining, and tracking research output is crucial to a researcher’s continued visibility and impact. Tracking scholarly output and cultivating information about a researcher's work is made possible with online scholarly profile tools. As the most widely accepted unique identifier for authors, ORCiD IDs are increasingly required for: paper submissions to journals, grant submissions, and various NIH research training and career development awards. Attendees participated in hands on activities to set up profiles, and discover more information about tracking their impact going forward, and utilize existing connections between different scholarly profile tools. Learning objectives: • List reasons why maintaining scholarly profiles is important to researchers • Describe the benefits of several scholarly profile tools • Set up and/or update your scholarly profile(s

So you’ve been rejected from MedEdPORTAL: Demystifying Open Access to Medical Educators

This blog post is in place of a cancelled conference presentation at the 2020 Library Publishing Forum. The original blog post is located here: https://librarypublishing.org/lpforum20-mededportal

Bibliometric analysis of publications on healthcare disparities among sexual and gender minorities: an exploratory study

Academic and scientific literature related to healthcare disparities among sexual and gender minorities has increased significantly over the past decade. For this study, a bibliometric analysis will be applied to examine the characteristics, as well as the growth and authorship patterns of worldwide research output, addressing issues related to barriers and disparities of the availability or access to medical services for the LGBTQ population. For this exploratory study, we used the Web of Science database, one of the most widely multidisciplinary databases, that provides the analytical tools for bibliometric calculations. For this analysis, we conducted a bibliographic search on the topic of healthcare disparities in order to collect the representative documents about the topic and to identify authors, document types, year of publications, sources, main thematic areas, most productive institutions, languages and most productive countries of research output. We used an open-source Bibliometrix/Biblioshiny R-package to conduct quantitative analysis. This approach aims to inform the development and trends of research outputs to understand what this research is focusing on, identify research productivity and topic trends

Going Beyond the IR: Using Content-Specific Platforms and Targeted Outreach to Provide Integrated Access to a Medical School’s Education Scholarship

To increase local contributions to medical education scholarship, a medical school began hosting an annual school-wide conference in 2020. Two librarians worked proactively with conference organizers to preserve and provide access to presentation materials and session recordings. This targeted outreach became more effective in the second year as students and faculty were invited on the conference submission form to express interest in contributing materials to the university’s institutional repository. The librarians were able to use this list of interested participants to obtain permissions, additional information, and address potential questions rather than relying on a post-hoc solicitation of conference materials. Workflow tutorials and tracking spreadsheets were developed and used by library staff to upload items and metadata to the campus institutional repository (posters, presentation slides) and a university-wide repository for digital audio and video collections (video recordings). The 2021 conference being virtual meant all presentations were recorded and increased ease of retrieval for upload. Librarians were able to integrate and streamline access to the materials across different systems using unique persistent identifiers. This new approach to documenting local scholarship provides sustainable, online access to conference materials that would otherwise not be available long-term, promotes the research of students and faculty, and increases the visibility of the institution’s digital repositories as a research service. Additionally, leveraging content-specific platforms to provide access to both traditional research products and recordings of the presentations themselves gives asynchronous viewers a more complete, integrated learning experience. Pressure points, limitations, and areas of improvement will be discussed

Streamlining Library Classes: Scheduling, marketing, and data gathering in order to increase the value of a library service

Presented at the 2020 Medical Library Association Virtual Conference

My Favorite Tool: f.lux

Presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2021 [virtual]. Presentation was awarded first place in the "My Favorite Tool" immersion session

Understanding our impact: Analyzing librarian involvement with systematic reviews

Objectives: On a medical campus, systematic reviews with librarian co-authors compared to reviews without librarians were published in journals with lower impact factors, although still within the comparative range. To try to determine why, discipline and authors’ publishing experience were examined. The bibliographic analysis was also expanded to see if there is a difference in the journal ranks by discipline. Methods: Search strategies were created to pull systematic reviews published in the last five years by campus authors from PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Web of Science. Citations were exported and deduped using EndNote X8. The systematic reviews were grouped by whether a librarian from our campus assisted with the search or not by searching for librarians’ names in the author field. A statistically appropriate number of articles without a librarian author were randomly selected for comparison with articles that had librarian assistance. Selected articles were analyzed based on Journal Impact Factor for the year of publication, journal rank by discipline, authors’ discipline(s), and years of authors’ publication experience. Authors’ years of experience are determined by the date of their first published article. Results: Systematic reviews with the assistance of a librarian were statistically no different from those without a librarian in terms of the Journal Impact Factor or journal rank by discipline where systematic reviews were published. Years of experience significantly differed between groups, with librarians assisting most authors with 5 years or fewer of experience. The departments who utilized librarians for systematic searching the most were: General Medicine, Orthopedics, and Gastroenterology. Conclusions: This exploratory research helped evaluate who our librarians are primarily working with on systematic reviews. It also informed us that we do not have an impact on the systematic review being published in a higher impact journal based on Journal Impact Factor or rank by discipline. Our liaison efforts will focus less on the three departments listed above as they already utilize our service. Since most of the authors we assisted had 5 years of experience, we will target the campus faculty onboarding orientation

Who is talking about my research: introduction to altmetrics

Presented as a poster at 2021 IUSM Education Day. View the presentation recording here: [LINK]https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/s85940fh8j[/LINK]The poster will provide a roadmap of how to track and use alternative metrics (altmetrics) to provide evidence of attention or engagement of individual research outlets. Altmetrics are non-traditional metrics proposed as an alternative/complement to citation impact metrics. They provide information about the attention and influence of research of an article or publication and are based on interactions and conversations about scholarly content that occur online, mainly on social media platforms. One of the benefits of altmetrics is that they can accrue sooner than traditional metrics (citations) as they do not depend on the long process of conventional scholarly communication. Examples of altmetrics include mentions on Twitter, in news releases, in blogs, citations in policy documents, number of downloads, and more. As altmetrics are becoming more popular than ever in the evaluation of research, you can include them in your CV, grant proposal, personal website, and your promotion and tenure dossier. This poster shows useful sources and tools to track alternative metrics

Kick starting use of electronic lab notebooks at IU School of Medicine

Presented at 2020 Medical Library Association Virtual Conference