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Health Sciences Library Annual Report (2019-2020): Research & Scholarly Communications

Research & Scholarly Communications Highlights

Tools & Services

Helpful subject guides:

Research Support and Scholarly Communications available services:

  • Research Consultations: Research consultations are delivered either in person, by telephone or remotely via WebEx. Librarians can help to: Refine the research question; Define search terms and search criteria; Identify appropriate databases; Guide and or instruct users on database and literature searching principles/mechanics; or Guide or instruct users on citation management software.
  • Scholarly Publishing Support: This service provides NOSM faculty, learners, and staff with publication information that will aid them in making decisions about where to publish a manuscript.
  • Tracking & Assessing Research Impact: Granting/funding agencies are known to request journal impact factor information and/or individual scholarly impact metrics. If you are working on a grant and need this type of information, you will be pleased to learn that the Library will compile and deliver these metrics to you.
  • Search Assistance: Literature and knowledge synthesis searching

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Support for Information Use Requests

We provide a Consultation Service that offers assistance with questions relating to information use; including: 

  • Copyright
  • Creative Commons Licenses
  • Open Access

Information Use Requests may involve a combination of the following:

a) Working with requestors to determine and articulate the uses they want to make of items

b) Determining what could be reproduced given: Copyright Act provisions, Creative Commons Licenses and or Open Access terms and conditions, etc.

c) Identifying appropriate acknowledgement/attribution statements

d) Locating rights holders in cases where permission needs to be requested

e) Working with faculty/staff/learners to communicate with rights holders

 

A total of 26 items were researched with regards to how they could be used given existing copyright regulations, Creative Commons licenses and or Open Access terms and conditions of use. 

We also prepared a briefing note for Administration that outlined: a) the status of Access Copyright licences among academic institutions; and, b) what the implications of this landscape were for NOSM.

Service Requests by User Group

Annual Faculty Publications Search

Beginning in January of each year, we conduct the annual faculty publications search for the preceding year. For the 2018-2019 timeframe, approximately 1843 individual faculty members were searched and a final report was submitted to stakeholders. We maintain a database of citations and receive requests for faculty publication information from NOSM programs and units. Currently, we have 3117 citations in our database covering the years 2005 to 2019. 

In addition to responding to requests from Communications, the Dean's Office, and for the undergraduate medical accreditation, we also received and delivered results for faculty and resident publication requests, which were used for accreditation purposes, from the following postgraduate programs:

  • Psychiatry
  • Pediatrics
  • Internal Medicine
  • General Surgery
  • Surgical Foundations
  • Orthopedic Surgery
  • Anesthesia

Promotion of Open Access Week