Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Health Info Libr J. 2022 Dec;39(4):365-376. doi: 10.1111/hir.12447. Epub 2022 Jul 7.
Health librarians have traditionally provided mediated searches to support patient care, education and research.
This study aims to discover the types of search result formats used by health science libraries, determine current practice among health science libraries (types of requesters served, fees, deduplication, turnaround time and citation manager use) and uncover innovative methods for providing search results.
An online survey was distributed to the MEDLIB-L, ExpertSearching, MidContinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association and ICON listservs and through direct email to selected Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries reference and education librarians.
Librarians affiliated with 127 institutions from 11 countries (including the USS) and 36 USS states and territories responded. One hundred and forty-two of the total 150 analysed responses provided information on full-text access, and 81 of those 142 responses (57%) indicated that the institutions' link-resolver links were included in search results provided to the requester. The survey responses provide information on literature search services regarding turnaround time, use of a citation managers, fees and deduplication.
With the developing landscape of citation managers and the tools offered, these data can be used as a benchmark for librarians who are considering evaluating or modifying their search service delivery.
健康图书馆员传统上提供中介搜索以支持患者护理、教育和研究。
本研究旨在发现健康科学图书馆使用的搜索结果格式类型,确定健康科学图书馆的当前实践(服务的请求者类型、费用、去重、周转时间和引文管理器使用),并揭示提供搜索结果的创新方法。
向 MEDLIB-L、ExpertSearching、医学图书馆协会中大陆中部分会和 ICON 邮件列表以及选定的学术健康科学图书馆参考和教育馆员的直接电子邮件分发在线调查。
来自 11 个国家(包括美国)和 36 个美国州和地区的 127 个机构的馆员做出了回应。在总共 150 个分析的回复中,有 142 个提供了全文访问信息,而在这 142 个回复中,有 81 个(57%)表示机构的链接解析器链接包含在提供给请求者的搜索结果中。调查回复提供了有关周转时间、引文管理器使用、费用和去重的文献搜索服务信息。
随着引文管理器和提供的工具的发展,这些数据可作为正在考虑评估或修改其搜索服务提供的图书馆员的基准。