Associate Director for Research, Center for Knowledge Management, Strategy and Innovation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN,
Information Scientist, Center for Knowledge Management, Strategy and Innovation Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN,
J Med Libr Assoc. 2020 Apr;108(2):286-294. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2020.815. Epub 2020 Apr 1.
Advances in the health sciences rely on sharing research and data through publication. As information professionals are often asked to contribute their knowledge to assist clinicians and researchers in selecting journals for publication, the authors recognized an opportunity to build a decision support tool, SPI-Hub: Scholarly Publishing Information Hub™, to capture the team's collective publishing industry knowledge, while carefully retaining the quality of service.
SPI-Hub's decision support functionality relies on a data framework that describes journal publication policies and practices through a newly designed metadata structure, the Knowledge Management Journal Record™. Metadata fields are populated through a semi-automated process that uses custom programming to access content from multiple sources. Each record includes 25 metadata fields representing best publishing practices. Currently, the database includes more than 24,000 health sciences journal records. To correctly capture the resources needed for both completion and future maintenance of the project, the team conducted an internal study to assess time requirements for completing records through different stages of automation.
The journal decision support tool, SPI-Hub, provides an opportunity to assess publication practices by compiling data from a variety of sources in a single location. Automated and semi-automated approaches have effectively reduced the time needed for data collection. Through a comprehensive knowledge management framework and the incorporation of multiple quality points specific to each journal, SPI-Hub provides prospective users with both recommendations for publication and holistic assessment of the trustworthiness of journals in which to publish research and acquire trusted knowledge.
健康科学的进步依赖于通过发表研究和数据来共享。由于信息专业人员经常被要求贡献他们的知识，以协助临床医生和研究人员选择发表期刊，作者们认识到有机会构建一个决策支持工具，即 SPI-Hub：学术出版信息中心™，以获取团队的集体出版行业知识，同时仔细保留服务质量。
SPI-Hub 的决策支持功能依赖于一个数据框架，该框架通过新设计的元数据结构，即知识管理期刊记录™，描述了期刊出版政策和实践。元数据字段通过半自动化过程填充，该过程使用自定义编程从多个来源访问内容。每个记录包括 25 个元数据字段，代表最佳出版实践。目前，该数据库包含超过 24,000 种健康科学期刊记录。为了正确捕获项目完成和未来维护所需的资源，团队进行了内部研究，以评估通过不同阶段的自动化完成记录所需的时间。
期刊决策支持工具 SPI-Hub 通过在一个位置编译来自各种来源的数据，提供了评估出版实践的机会。自动化和半自动化方法有效地减少了数据收集所需的时间。通过全面的知识管理框架和纳入每个期刊特有的多个质量点，SPI-Hub 为潜在用户提供了发表建议，并全面评估了在哪些期刊上发表研究和获取可信知识的可信度。
