ICML 2009: Meeting Room 3 Session 7

Theme: Publishing trends & challenges

Time: 10.45-12.15
Date: Wednesday 2nd September 2009
Chair: Jeong Wook Seo

Describing Versions of Scholarly Articles
T Scott Plutchak, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

T. Scott Plutchak is the director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association from 2000-2006 and a member of the MLA Board of Directors from 2006-2009. He is a frequent lecturer on topics dealing with publishing, intellectual property and the future of libraries, and leads the international librarian rock band, The Bearded Pigs.

Abstract:
In the digital age we are now faced with the potential for multiple copies of research articles to be discoverable on the internet. Aside from the publisher’s official version, there may be copies on author’s websites, institutional repositories or funder’s repositories, each of which may vary slightly from the others. The terms “postprint” or “preprint” are used in a variety of ways and there has been no consistency in how the terms are defined, making it extremely difficult to determine the relationship between any two versions of a paper. In order to address this problem, NISO (the National Information Standards Organization) issued, in June 2008, NISO RP-8-2008, Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group, as a “recommended practice” for describing versions of scholarly journal articles. This document was the result of nearly three years of work sponsored by NISO and ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers). As a member of the technical working group that developed the recommendations, this author will describe the process, outcomes and proposed implementation of the recommendations.

A Study on the Change of Medical Librarians' Role and Library Services at the Emergence of Electronic Information
Jeong H Park, University of Ulsan, Asan Medical Library, Korea

Abstract:
From the beginning of the 21st century, medical information has rapidly been changed into electronic form. Such a trend brought in another radical change of purchasing pattern of medical libraries and the access pattern of the users. Within the last four or five years, many medical libraries have changed their purchasing pattern from printed to electronic form. More users are beginning to depend on websites. While this phenomenon caused the librarians to reexamine their traditional duties, an abundance of unattested information were heaped on the users. Medical librarians decided to make the information to be more user-friendly. By this we mean, whenever the user desires to find any medical information, he/she would call to the librarian rather the library. To meet the needs of the users, several services are available: one-stop service, the requested information will be supplied within 12 hours that is in the boundary of the library, subject search service, SDI service, a mobile service which announces users' status, formatting of thesis according to the journal's rule, analysis of the quotations, and purchasing personal books. All these services are accessible on the website, being effective for the last five years. This study is striving to discover users' pattern of utilizing the medical information, the frequency of users' visit, the degree of their satisfaction, and the need for such services, in order to find a better way of serving the medical professionals and to identify the role of the medical librarian in influx of the electronic informational era.

Trends & Challenges for Electronic Resource Management
Jay Glaisyer, EBSCO Information Services, Australia

Jay Glaisyer has been in the information industry for over 17 years, starting her career at Swets in the UK and moving to Australia in 1997 to run the Australian office of Swets, responsible for Australian and New Zealand library customers. In 2004 Jay joined EBSCO as their Head of Business Development, responsible for development of sales and marketing strategy. Jay has been active in many industry bodies, including most recently the Purchasing and Licensing Advisory Commitee, a sub-group of ALIA, responsible for investigating and advising on consortia and licensing activity within the Australian library community.

Abstract:
The goal of medical librarians is to provide quality information for improved healthcare. The challenges presented by electronic resources add complexities which make us nostalgic for the simplicity of print. Medical librarians are charged with spending their scarce budgetary resources wisely to provide access to high quality, urgently needed content. Collection development decisions are driven by many factors. Price is just one. The challenge of finding the budgetary resources to meet continuing price increases will be demonstrated in this presentation by historical price lines for a sample of core clinical journals in medicine and nursing. The challenge for librarians who must now track changing pricing models, license terms, and hundreds of other data elements has been answered in part by electronic resource management systems (ERMs). Once a library purchases an ERM system, the next challenge is populating and maintaining the massive amounts of data associated with electronic resources. Without the data, an ERM system is just an expensive online filing cabinet. The trend now is toward automating the transfer of essential data between systems to ease the burden of manual data entry and improve accuracy. This presentation will propose how this process might work. Health librarians often face an additional challenge of providing electronic access to disparate users, and ensuring that access is granted to those who are entitled, while license conditions are observed and publishers' valuable content is protected from unauthorised use. This presentation will address the issue of authentication and look at of the solutions available today.

Developing nursing informatics curriculum
Imola Jehoda, Semmelweis University Faculty of Health Sciences Library, Hungary

Abstract:
Background: The nursing informatics is an important part of the health science curriculum on many levels of nursing programs across the world. Sweeping changes in health care gives urgency to the call to transform nursing curricula so that new competencies could more closely match practical needs.

Aim: This paper is a report of an integrative review of nursing informatics programs. The purpose is to describe the findings of the review to understand the current state of informatics integration within basic nursing curricula.

Data sources: The CINAHL, MEDLINE, PUBMED, EBSCO Academic Search Premier, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition and ERIC electronic databases were searched for the period 1991 - 2008 for research based papers published in English. Manual searching as scrutiny is an additional method.

Findings: Inclusion criteria of the study were defined. The integrative review was conducted and each paper was explored in relation to: design, purposes, sample, outcome measures and results. Comparisons between study findings are difficult to make because of variation in methodology, settings and sample characteristics. There is limited empirical evidence addressing the use of computer technology, skills and competencies.

Conclusions:

• The outcomes of the study are important to guide curriculum development in meeting the changing health care environmental demands for quality, cost effectiveness and safety.
• Information literacy and computer literacy are critical to the future of nursing.
• Nursing programs must integrate informatics content and competencies into their curricula to prepare nurses to use information literacy and computer literacy.