I've been meaning to experiment with this for a long time, but just never got around to it. So I finally did, and it took me about ten minutes to come up with this:
Note that most of that time was spent trying to find the linkrolls info within Delicious' help files. Is it only me that gets totally lost when I try to look something up in there? Maybe I need to bookmark the ones that I'm always looking for...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
mapping research trends
Springer released a new (free!) tool to map research publishing trends. It uses Google maps (like everyone else) to geographically display search results, but also breaks them down according to several other facets. I like the faceted search and display capabilities, including subject, author, institution, journal and country. It seems like a pretty powerful breakdown.
I am especially intrigued by the ability to restrict results to open access articles only. This means that I can look at the trend of open access publishing in a certain field over time and according to geography. Of course, it only indexes Springer journals, so this isn't a comprehensive look at open access publishing, but it is interesting nonetheless. We've been discussing open access pros and cons (I'm a pro-person myself) in class lately and this caught my attention.
So I did a quick search on "breast cancer" from Jan 1, 2009, to today, Feb. 18, 2009, restricted to the US (so I can actually zoom in on the map a little). I got 80 articles with 390 authors geographically pinpointed on the map. The little people on the map below are color-coded, red meaning more people are represented, yellow indicating fewer. When you zoom in, the people explode (!) into more people, showing more specific geographic locations.
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And this is the same search restricted to open access articles only. Only 2 articles (hey, it's only February), including 11 authors from six institutions. And they link directly to the articles in the search results, of course. Pretty nice functionality.
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Hmm...fun tool. Also nice for highlighting all of your research institution's collaborations. Which gives me another idea...
I am especially intrigued by the ability to restrict results to open access articles only. This means that I can look at the trend of open access publishing in a certain field over time and according to geography. Of course, it only indexes Springer journals, so this isn't a comprehensive look at open access publishing, but it is interesting nonetheless. We've been discussing open access pros and cons (I'm a pro-person myself) in class lately and this caught my attention.
So I did a quick search on "breast cancer" from Jan 1, 2009, to today, Feb. 18, 2009, restricted to the US (so I can actually zoom in on the map a little). I got 80 articles with 390 authors geographically pinpointed on the map. The little people on the map below are color-coded, red meaning more people are represented, yellow indicating fewer. When you zoom in, the people explode (!) into more people, showing more specific geographic locations.
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And this is the same search restricted to open access articles only. Only 2 articles (hey, it's only February), including 11 authors from six institutions. And they link directly to the articles in the search results, of course. Pretty nice functionality.
Powered by AuthorMapper.com
Hmm...fun tool. Also nice for highlighting all of your research institution's collaborations. Which gives me another idea...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Audio experimentation
Title: UTK/SLA Brownbag 11/05/08
Description: A roundtable discussion with Martha Earl, Reference Coordinator at Preston Medical Library, which serves the UT Medical Center and the UT Graduate School of Medicine, Mark Dickey, Engineering Research Librarian at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Research Library, who provides information to researchers at the national lab, and Leslie Duncan, Manager of Information Services at the National Limb Loss Information Center, which provides information for and about amputees. Topics discussed include the changing role of librarians, next generation catalogs, and whether Dialog searching should still be part of the curriculum. They also shared their experiences as information professionals and offered some advice for students.
Listen:
For audio archiving and sharing, check out Ourmedia.org! My page is here.
Description: A roundtable discussion with Martha Earl, Reference Coordinator at Preston Medical Library, which serves the UT Medical Center and the UT Graduate School of Medicine, Mark Dickey, Engineering Research Librarian at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Research Library, who provides information to researchers at the national lab, and Leslie Duncan, Manager of Information Services at the National Limb Loss Information Center, which provides information for and about amputees. Topics discussed include the changing role of librarians, next generation catalogs, and whether Dialog searching should still be part of the curriculum. They also shared their experiences as information professionals and offered some advice for students.
Listen:
For audio archiving and sharing, check out Ourmedia.org! My page is here.
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