On behalf of the entire library team, I would like to welcome you all -new and returning students, faculty and staff- to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. We look forward to both working with you during the upcoming year, and to making sure that your interactions with the Library are always exceptional.
We can help you find the best information for your needs, as well as provide the most appropriate study space for your needs: from quiet study space, to space for talking and collaborative interactions. We can provide assistance in statistics and data, or share some fascinating information about the history of the University of Virginia Health System. We can also help you keep you informed about upcoming classes, and also about our interesting monthly events.
Please do not hesitate to make the Health Sciences Library your destination of choice for all of your information needs.
Gretchen Arnold, Director
Kimberley Barker
Kimberley Barker
Publish or perish, right? Our publications often serve as the “currency” of health sciences researchers. Scholarship allows us to share our findings and disseminate them to a community of scholars and even the general public.
Once we’ve published, how do we determine the impact of these publications? There are indicators like the Impact Factor (meant for journals, not articles), but what else is available for individuals or departments seeking to assess the range and influence of their work?
Research and Data Services - Here for You
The Health Sciences Library’s Publication Impact Services team provides expert consultations to Health System and SON faculty, departments, and groups on measuring your scholarship. Our Research and Data Services librarians and staff have expertise on bibliometrics, citation analysis tools, and other techniques to report on and visualize your work.
Our services include expert guidance on:
- citation analysis: extracting and analyzing information about the citation patterns of your publications
- demonstrating impact of published works for promotion and tenure, or when applying for funding
- measuring or tracking publications
- maintaining an impactful online identity
- communicating research impact to audiences
How Can We Help?
Individuals
- Going up for promotion and tenure? Let us prepare a Citation Analysis Report of Times Cited, Impact Factors, Journal Categories, and Rank data for your citations
- Strengthening a research grant application and promoting your work? – let us check your publications for “hot” and “highly cited” papers
- Assessing the influence of your work in the biomedical field? Calculate the Relative Citation Ratio (NIH) for your articles
Departments
- Need a list of your department's publications for annual reporting? Let us help you collect and format citations
- We can assist with highlighting and visualizing inter- or intra-departmental collaborations
- Let us help recognize your faculty by identifying and showcasing high-impact publications
- Have us report on attention to your work by the media and general public via “altmetrics”
Contact Us!
Our services are free to Health System affiliates. Want to learn more or request a customized report? See our Publication Impact Services site, or email Research and Data Services at hsl-rdas@virginia.edu.
Andrea Denton, Manager, and Arian Abdulla, Biomedical Science Librarian
Research & Data Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Kimberley Barker
One of the benefits of working in an academic health system are the many educational opportunities it provides. Attending lectures and grand rounds, working with smart colleagues, and having easy access to a robust medical library make it much easier for clinicians to stay up to date in their field. Even with all of these advantages, it can still be difficult to keep up. To this end, the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library has put together a few resources (some the Library subscribes to, and others are free to the general public) for you:
New Information “Pushed” to you
We’ve written before about registering for a free MyNCBI account to have newly published literature indexed in PubMed “pushed” to you through your email account, but it’s worth mentioning again. This information can include emailing to you a journal’s table of contents for quick browsing. Click here for information on setting up a table of contents service: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/myncbi/jourup/index.html. You can also set up automatic topic searches to be run periodically where only newly-available abstracts will be emailed to you. Click here for information on setting up an automated PubMed search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKUti5z4eA. As a member of the University of Virginia community, you have reliable access to the full-text of these abstracts.
Google Scholar is a Google tool that searches materials from selected academic and professional publishers including journals, books, and other documents, repositories, and universities. Google Scholar’s Alerts system may be of use to you because it often searches some or all of the material’s full-text as opposed to simply an abstract. It is especially helpful if your topic is multidisciplinary. One downside of this tool is that google does not specify what is included in Google Scholar making the thoroughness of your retrieval unclear. Click here for information on setting up a Google Scholar Alert https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html#alerts
Essential Evidence Plus is a unique resource, subscribed to by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library to help answer clinical questions. When you sign up for the POEMS tool (POEMs stands for Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters), you will receive via email a daily synopsis of a new research article that has been carefully filtered for relevance to patient care and evaluated for validity. Click here to sign up for POEMs and to read past summaries http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com/content/poems#accept
Information Suggested Based on Your Interests
Mendeley’s real purpose is as a reference management tool. You select articles that are relevant to you and store them in Mendeley to either read again or include in a manuscript. The interesting part about Mendeley is it provides personalized suggestions for articles to read and people to follow based on the articles you store in your Mendelay library. At this time, Mendeley is a free service. (Click here for more information about Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/)
F1000 Workspace is also a reference management tool with a twist. Based on the titles, abstract and authors of the articles you add to your “project”, the F1000 workspace algorithm suggests related articles to ensure you never miss an important paper. Click here for more information: https://f1000workspace.com/
Social Media is a great way to keep current. Instead of looking at cat pictures on Facebook or Twitter, choose to follow leaders in your field to learn new perspectives or hear about new research presented in real-time at professional meetings. For more information about the ways you can use Twitter for professional purposes, sign up for the Library’s class, “Twitter: Connecting Professionally in 280 Characters”.
If you have questions about any of the resources in this post, please contact Elaine Attridge, Clinical Services Liaison: Elaine@virginia.edu
Join the Health Sciences Library as we celebrate summer with a week of exploring different aspects of wellness. We’ve invited experts on a variety of topics to share their knowledge with you. In the spirit of summer’s more relaxed pace, registration isn’t required :) If you have questions about the week’s events, please email hsl-MILL@virginia.edu
Monday, July 30th
ZUMBA® is a fusion of Latin and International music / dance themes that create a dynamic, exciting, and based on the principle that a workout should be "FUN AND EASY TO DO." The routines feature aerobic/fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body.
Tuesday, July 31st
Wednesday, August 1st
Thursday, August 2nd
We are delighted that Sabine Scholes, yoga teacher and co-owner of NowYoga will lead us in a presentation and mini yoga session. From the NowYoga website, "Sabine discovered yoga after the birth of her second child in 1999 and found it to be the perfect way to bring balance to the chaos inherent in life with a baby and toddler. She began practicing in the Iyengar style, then spent years practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, and now practices primarily Vinyasa Flow yoga. Sabine completed her 200 hour teacher training in 2009 at the Charlottesville Yoga School and has been teaching Vinyasa classes ever since. Her classes are infused with thoughtful, intelligent cues to alignment which are grounded in her study of biomechanics within her Masters Degree in Physical Therapy."
Friday, August 3rd
Join Dr. Russell for a presentation on the best practices for enjoying the summer sun as safely as possible.
This workshop covers the degrees of stress which can impact people and ways to identify and reduce the impact of such stress. Most Health Care Professionals have a moderate to high level of stress as usual elements in the work environment. Personal life can also have events and waves of moderate to high stress levels. And as we have all recently experienced, there can be community based traumas and stressful events which impact us in unexpected ways. Independently or together those natural factors in life can accumulate and have heavy impact. There are many ways to expand awareness of stress and how it can become symptomatic. There are also on-going practices which can help heal, restore, and prevent stress from reaching a point of negatively effecting ones experiences and relationships. This workshop provides ways to address these issues with tools and practices that can serve you and your co-workers.