Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Using Wikis to Create a Faculty Author Database

Since 1993, the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library (in conjunction with the Office of Professional Staff Affairs) has compiled and maintained a bibliographic database of publications authored by Staff and employees of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The librarian finds most of the information from MEDLINE, but she also uses many other databases as well information from the authors to populate the database. Currently the database is published online using RefShare.

Today while reading through my Bloglines feeds I ran across the article, Using Wiki Technology to Build a Faculty Publications Database (not free) by Elizabeth Connor in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries v4 (1) 2007.

What an interesting way to use wiki technology. Unfortunately the article is "Not Yet Published" and there isn't an abstract for me to even get a hint about the article. I am eager to see how this was done and if it is a viable method for us to use.

posted by The Krafty Librarian @ 12:09 AM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 2:09 PM, Blogger Mark Wentz said...

I currently do the faculty publication database where I work. I'll be looking forward to this article, although I'm not optimistic. Currently, we use Procite5, but it is having difficulty with the size of our database (about 195,000 records). We're looking at Biblioscape, but it has some unattractive limititations--like author and title fields holding only 250 characters.

If anyone knows of any other products out there for author databases, please speak up. Thanks.

 

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