Practice Article

The Faculty Bibliography Project at the NYU School of Medicine

Authors
  • Dorice Vieira (Clinical Outreach & Graduate Medicine Education Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Library)
  • Richard McGowan (Research Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Library)
  • Aileen McCrillis (Research Librarian/User Experience Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Library)
  • Ian Lamb (Web Designer, NYU Health Sciences Library)
  • Catherine Larson (Web Services Librarian, NYU Health Sciences Library)
  • Theodora Bakker (Assistant Director, Knowledge Informatics, NYU Health Sciences Library)
  • Stuart Spore (NYU Health Sciences Libraries 577 First Avenue, Room 117 New York, NY 10016)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION This paper describes the development of the New York University Health Sciences Library’s Faculty Bibliography. DESCRIPTION Since 2000, the NYU Health Sciences Library’s Faculty Bibliography project has systematically tracked publications of the NYU School of Medicine faculty. The project has grown to a significant institutional service making prominent contributions to the School of Medicine’s public web presence and to advanced productivity metrics. Migrating from Gopher to EndNote to MySQL, the Faculty Bibliography harvests data from multiple abstracting and indexing resources and uses sophisticated quality assurance methodologies. At present the Faculty Bibliography tracks over 228,000 publications of well over 13,000 faculty, including faculties of the NYU Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing. Both technical and social engineering aspects of the project’s success are discussed; the project’s role in deepening professional contact between the Library, clinical and research faculty, and School administration is stressed. NEXT STEPS The Library currently envisions broadening coverage to include faculty engaged in scientific and medical publishing from other schools and colleges at NYU. We also anticipate significant improvements in the project’s methodology once the ORCID initiative takes root.

How to Cite:

Vieira, D., McGowan, R., McCrillis, A., Lamb, I., Larson, C., Bakker, T. & Spore, S., (2014) “The Faculty Bibliography Project at the NYU School of Medicine”, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2(3), eP1161. doi: https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1161

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01 Aug 2014
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