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To Infinity & Beyond: From Citation Analysis to Understanding Open Access Publishing
Robyn Gleasner and Robinson Lewis Worley
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center conducted a citation analysis to determine where faculty are publishing and open access publishing trends. The actions based on the results of this analysis including gaps in the collection, acquisitions decisions, and emerging publishing trends will be shared.
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Using A General Survey To Determine Value: One Health Sciences Library's Experience Customizing the MISO Survey
Sally Bowler-Hill, Melissa Rethlefsen, Robyn Gleasner, Lori D. Sloane, Laura J. Hall, Ingrid Hendrix, and Kristin Proctor
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to obtain reliable data about satisfaction with and value of services and resources to users at a health sciences library using the Measuring Information Service Outcomes (MISO) Survey.
METHODS: The study team evaluated multiple survey options including MISO, LibQual, LibStat, and creating an in-house survey. The ITHAKA survey was not considered due to its length and complexity. We selected MISO based on its flexibility/customizability, professional administration, ease of use, previous use of the tool, and historically high response rates. The team significantly customized the survey tool, adding 40 customized or local questions. The survey was distributed in February 2023 and sent to a sample of 4,223 faculty, staff, and students.
RESULTS: The survey received a 43% response rate, with a 38% completion rate. Custom questions that had been used before, thus providing longitudinal data, and custom questions with free text responses provided the most useful data. Data from the survey is being used to inform instructional offerings and plan furniture for a large remodeling project. However, some custom quantitative questions and several of the questions used from MISO’s question bank provided incomplete or uninterpretable data. Some respondents expressed dismay at MISO’s mandatory race/ethnicity and gender questions, data the study team did not need for our intended use. As with previous administrations, the amount of email sent to the campus survey administrator by respondents was unmanageable due to the highly personable nature of the survey invitation templates. Additionally, each administration of the MISO survey has been progressively more difficult to run though a biomedical IRB, showing gaps between IRB’s at the undergraduate institutions MISO predominantly serves and the IRB this library uses.
CONCLUSION: Despite the obstacles, health sciences libraries should seriously consider using general library customer satisfaction surveys. The professional vetting and administration that goes into a fee-for-use survey like MISO provides significant value in terms of its usability, both for the survey team and potential survey respondents. The tools provided to help administer and monitor the survey, as well as the rigor of participating in a cohort minimize distractions and keep the survey project on track. The data can also be used as a baseline for more targeted in-house assessments that dig deeper into specific areas.
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24/7 Library: Using OpenRefine and Excel to Visualize Large Data Sets
Sally Bowler-Hill and George E. Hernandez
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Assessing patient education materials for disempowering language using summative content analysis: Phase 1
Lisa M. Acuff, Gwen Geiger Wolfe, and Sally Bowler-Hill
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Breaking Barriers to Menstrual Equity: UNM Health Sciences Library’s Project to Provide Free Menstrual Products
Varina A. Kosovich and Sally Bowler-Hill
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Carrie Tingley Hospital Records & William Minear Papers: Seed Funding Project
Laura J. Hall and Jonathan M. Pringle
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Converging Incentive Structures that Drive the Peer Review Process
Jonathan Eldredge and Michelle M. Kraft
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Customizing Faculty Success to Showcase Librarian Work in an Academic Health Sciences Library
Lisa M. Acuff, Jonathan M. Pringle, Melissa L. Rethlefsen, and David Lucero
Background:
In October 2019, the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine (SOM) launched Digital Measures, now known as Faculty Success. The platform’s primary focus was to collect, store, and report faculty activity data in order to streamline promotion and tenure processes. The program was then expanded to other UNM health sciences colleges to create a new campus online directory. The original program was built for the SOM, and faculty at the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC) experienced challenges with many data fields and reports. The existing options did not adequately represent library professionals and their work.
Description:
Faculty Success did not accommodate many activities critical to the diverse types of librarianship. Therefore, HSLIC created an ad-hoc committee comprised of three library faculty and one staff member to address these concerns. Following an environmental scan of library professional CVs and Academy of Health Information Professional (AHIP) categories, the group removed irrelevant and redundant fields, defined current fields as they relate to library activities, created new fields for library activities not yet represented, and developed a custom CV template tailored to highlight what mattered most to HSLIC. Throughout the summer of 2022, the committee shared their work with other library faculty, incorporating feedback until all activities were represented, and faculty consensus was reached.
Outcomes:
Representing library instruction was a key, problematic area. Available fields did not convey the types of instruction developed and shared by library faculty. Another challenge was demonstrating archival work, collection development, and large-scale projects because existing categories did not showcase faculty’s activities in these areas. The new system will be vital to the library’s promotion and tenure process, in the creation of annual reports, and for annual faculty evaluations. Next steps include testing, creating user instructions, and self-entering CV data, a large undertaking, by June 2023. The library hopes the changes and templates will benefit other health sciences librarians using Faculty Success.
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Data Management: Documenting your research project
Lori D. Sloane and Leah A. Everitt
This is a presentation that goes through the Data Lifecycle and Research Lifecycle providing helpful tips and information about organization of data. The Outline is as follows:
- Documentation (what you did and why)
- Data Collection & Surveys
- Qualitative Research Resources
- Tools for working with data
- Repositories
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Developing your Collection Development Policy
Robyn Gleasner, Deirdre Caparoso, Rachel Altobelli, and Julia Kelso
This pre-conference session will discuss the importance of a collection development policy, relevant sections to include for your library, and the reconsideration request/challenged material statement. We will provide general information about how to write a policy and then lessons learned from academic, public, and school librarians.
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Disempowering Language in Online Patient Education Materials for People with Type 1 Diabetes: Progress on a Summative Content Analysis
Lisa M. Acuff, Gwen Geiger Wolfe, and Sally Bowler-Hill
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Driving the EBLIP Process
Jonathan Eldredge
This presentation was a segment of the overall work created my multiple authors cited here:
Holmes HN, Eldredge JD, Hoogland MA, Asher MT, Henderson M. Understanding and Applying the Evidence Base in Library and Information Science. Presenter and Facilitator. Immersion Session. Medical Library Association/Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting. Detroit, MI. May 17, 2023.
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Enhance Your Scholarly Visibility with ORCID
Lori D. Sloane, Jonathan M. Pringle, and Amy Jankowski
This is a presentation about ORCID - Open Research and Contributor ID given at a RAFT - Research Administration Forum and Training.
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HSLIC Graphic Medicine Seed Funding Update
Robyn Gleasner and Varina Kosovich
This presentation was given as part of the UNM Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center What's the Buzz presentation series to update library employees about the status of the Graphic Medicine collection and events that were created using seed funding.
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Improving peer review of systematic reviews by involving librarians and information specialists: behind the scenes of a randomized controlled trial
Melissa L. Rethlefsen
Presentation on LIS peer review RCT for Metascience 2023 and at SCC/MLA and SC/MLA 2023 Joint Meeting
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Marketing the LibKey Suite: Our Trail to Creating Sustainable Marketing Techniques
Robyn Gleasner, Moses L. Moya, and Laura J. Hall
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Menstrual Equity at UNM Health Sciences Center
Amanda L. Collar, Varina A. Kosovich, and Sally Bowler-Hill
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Open Access Publishing 101
Robyn Gleasner, Lori D. Sloane, and Jonathan M. Pringle
The Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center is pleased to offer Open Access Publishing 101. This session will provide researchers and scholars with basic information about open access publishing including:
- Models and paths to Open Access Funding options such as article processing charges
- Publisher/transformative agreements, and including as a line item in grant proposals
- How these options may influence selection of scholarly output
- Open access publishing options currently available at UNM including existing publisher agreements, the UNM Digital Repository, and Native Health Database will also be discussed.
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Open Access Publishing: A Guide to Understanding the Basics of Open Access and How to Fund Publishing
Robyn Gleasner and Laura J. Hall
The Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center originally presented this session at a Research Administration Forum and Training (RAFT) session. This presentation provided basic information about open access publishing including: Models and paths to Open Access Funding options such as article processing charges, publisher/transformative agreements, and including as a line item in grant proposals, and how these options may influence selection of scholarly output .
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Renew your Library with Project Management
Robyn Gleasner
This presentation will cover the basic concepts of project management and then focus on a template that was developed for the Resources Archives and Discovery (RAD) unit at the UNM Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center. Examples of projects completed by RAD are provided to show how the template can be adapted to meet various project needs.
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Subjected: Investigating the Impact of MeSH Terms on Underrepresented Groups
Lorin Jackson, Jamia Williams, Kelleen Maluski, and Alexis Ellsworth-Kopkowski
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