MISSION NOT IMPOSSIBLE CREATIVE TOOLS FOR PROACTIVELY INCREASING
MISSION NOT IMPOSSIBLE CREATIVE TOOLS FOR PROACTIVELY INCREASING IR CONTENT
STUFF ABOUT ME • USM’s Institutional Repository Specialist • Worked at USM for over 2 years • Worked in public libraries before this job
BARRIERS IN FACULTY COMMUNICATION They’re busy. They don’t know who we are. They forget to answer their e-mails.
Google Scholar Alerts: Google Scholar Profiles Alerts: • Pros – Find articles quickly – Harder to reach Alert limit – Easy to use – Returns correct search results • Cons – Limit on number of Alerts – Returns search results for wrong faculty members • Cons – Some faculty members don’t use it – No results for older articles
Free! HARZING’S PUBLISH OR PERISH Available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux Crawls multiple academic databases and stores search results Not the intended usage
HOW DOES “PUBLISH OR PERISH” FILL THE GOOGLE SCHOLAR GAP? • Easier to find articles for faculty who don’t have Google Scholar profiles • Great for working through backlogs of articles that weren’t added to the collection
Crossref Google Scholar SIX “PUBLISH OR PERISH” DATABASES Google Scholar Profiles Microsoft Academic Scopus Web of Science
CROSSREF Free! Bad search function
MICROSOFT ACADEMIC Also Free! Good search interface Requires a search key
SCOPUS & WEB OF SCIENCE Not free ¯_(ツ)_/¯
HOW DOES THIS HELP FACULTY COMMUNICATION? TARGETED E-MAILS BETTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGAGEMENT
RELEVANT LINKS • Google Scholar Profiles • “Publish or Perish” Download
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