Shedlock James, Walton Linda J
Northwestern University, Galter Health Sciences Library, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2006 Jan;94(1):61-6.
The purpose of this article is to describe Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences as a new selection guide and a virtual community based on an effective use of online systems and to describe its potential impact on library collection development.
SETTING/PARTICIPANTS/RESOURCES: The setting is the availability of health sciences selection guides. Participants include Doody Enterprise staff, Doody's Library Board of Advisors, content specialists, and library selectors. Resources include the online system used to create Doody's Core Titles along with references to complementary databases.
Doody's Core Titles is described and discussed in relation to the literature of selection guides, especially in comparison to the Brandon/Hill selected lists that were published from 1965 to 2003. Doody's Core Titles seeks to fill the vacuum created when the Brandon/Hill lists ceased publication. Doody's Core Titles is a unique selection guide based on its method of creating an online community of experts to identify and score a core list of titles in 119 health sciences specialties and disciplines.
RESULTS/OUTCOME: The result is a new selection guide, now available annually, that will aid health sciences librarians in identifying core titles for local collections.
Doody's Core Titles organizes the evaluation of core titles that are identified and recommended by content specialists associated with Doody's Book Review Service and library selectors. A scoring mechanism is used to create the selection of core titles, similar to the star rating system employed in other Doody Enterprise products and services.
本文旨在将杜迪健康科学核心书目描述为一种基于在线系统有效利用的新型选书指南和虚拟社区，并阐述其对图书馆馆藏发展的潜在影响。
背景/参与者/资源：背景是健康科学选书指南的可得性。参与者包括杜迪企业员工、杜迪图书馆顾问委员会成员、内容专家和图书馆选书人员。资源包括用于创建杜迪核心书目的在线系统以及对补充数据库的引用。
结合选书指南文献对杜迪核心书目进行了描述和讨论，特别是与1965年至2003年出版的布兰登/希尔精选书目进行了比较。杜迪核心书目旨在填补布兰登/希尔书目停止出版后产生的空白。杜迪核心书目是一种独特的选书指南，其创建方式是通过一个专家在线社区来识别和评分119个健康科学专业和学科的核心书目清单。
结果/成果：结果是形成了一种新的选书指南，现已每年发布，将有助于健康科学图书馆员识别本地馆藏的核心书目。
杜迪核心书目组织对由与杜迪书评服务相关的内容专家和图书馆选书人员识别并推荐的核心书目进行评估。采用一种评分机制来选出核心书目，类似于杜迪企业其他产品和服务中使用的星级评级系统。
