Promoting scholarly publishingthrough libraries

Jukka EnglundDirector, R&D

National Library of Health Sciences - Terkko

Table of contents

Terkko – National Library of Health SciencesResearch library of the Medical Faculty of the HUScientific library for the HU Central HospitalNational resource library in health sciences

Promoting scholarly publishing through libraries: in-housedevelopment

Virtual Journal of Helsinki Medical ResearchFeedNavigator

Web feeds of Helsinki Medical PublicationsScholar Chart

Mashup of Finnish medical scholars’ publicationsTerkko Document Space

Institutional Repository

Scholarly publications

End product of researchDelivery of results

OutputProductivity of group members

Budgets rely on quantity and quality of publicationsInput

VisibilityNetwork

SharingMedia

ImpactStatus and importance

Past

Virtual Journal of Helsinki Medical Research’A monthly multijournal compilation of the latestresearch at the University of Helsinki’Published from 2000 until 2005Table-of-contents, links to full text and PubMedabstractMajor influence

Lund Virtual Medical Journal 2002-2007Lund Medical Faculty Monthly

XML and RSS

Web feedData format used with non-stop updated content

FeedNavigatorA web feed aggregator made in TerkkoDownloads 4000+ medical and health feedsHelsinki Medical Publications channel and 200+individual University scholars (from PubMed)The database used for Scholar ChartOn Friday: ’ FeedNavigator – a medical currentawareness service’

Scholar Chart: a mashup

MashupWeb applicationCombines data from more than one sourceSingle integrated serviceAPI: application programming interface

Scholar ChartLists 550+ Finnish medical scholars’ articles in realtimeHelsinki, Turku, Tampere, Kuopio, Oulu, InstitutionsCombines:

FeedNavigator RSS feedsImpact FactorsSCImago Journal Ranks

Scholar Chart: set of values

Absolute number of publicationsMean value of journals’ Impact Factors

In which the scholar has publishedJournal Citation Reports, Thomson Scientific

Mean value of journals’ SCImago Journal RanksIn which the scholar has publishedScopus, Elsevier, SCImago Research Group (Spain)

Terkko FactorCombination of these values(Square Root (Average Impact Factor x AverageSJR) x Number of Publications

The lists can be sorted by all of these fieldsThe data is provided for the latest 365 days

Scholar Chart: summary

InnovativeAuto-updating alerting tool

Practically in real timeEasy to useTo keep count of Finnish medical publications

International journalsGraphical presentationCo-authorsCitings

HelsinkiDirect linking to individual scholars

http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/scholarchart/?researcher=630

Scholarly publishing: institutional repository

Terkko Document Space (TDS)Institutional Repository of the Medical Faculty,University of HelsinkiMetadata is collected automatically from varioussources (Medline, Web of Science, Biosis etc.)Full text is added on to the metadataPrincipal Investigator Profiles

Work in progressPromoting scholarly publishing beyond thenormal repository boundaries

Thank You!

Jukka.Englund@Helsinki.Fi

http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/

http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/scholarchart/

http://tds.terkko.helsinki.fi/