The National Library of Medicine (NLM) librarians provided support to the first thirteen panels sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research by conducting literature searches, providing document delivery, and preparing bibliographic databases. Since then, NLM has moved into a consulting role, helping panels link up with local members of the National Network of Libraries of Medici...

Journals in the " Information Science and Library Science " category of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) were compared using both bibliometric and bibliographic features. Data collected covered: journal impact factor, number of issues per year, number of authors per paper, longevity, editorial board membership, frequency of publication, number of databases indexing the journal, number of aggregat...

Abbreviations BI D bibliographic database; CA D catalogue of chemicals; db D database; DADB D metadatabase of online databases; DACD D metadatabase of CD-ROMs; DAIN D metadatabase of internet resources; FBDB D fact-based database; FT D fulltext database; INDB D integrated database; MD D metadatabase; NU D numeric database; RD D research database; RE D reaction database; ST D structural database...

The most important knowledge in the area of biology currently consists of raw text documents. Bibliographic databases of biomedical articles can be searched, but an efficient procedure should evaluate the relevance of documents to biology. In genetics, this challenge is even trickier, because of the lack of consistency in genes' naming tradition. We aim to define a good approach for collecting ...

VIVO is an open source tool from semantic web technologies, used to identify and characterize the research activity of an institution. It allows the reuse of information or data existing in several external reference bases and different bibliographic databases. The aim is to collect and use four sets of relevant data on research activity: research structures, authors, research outputs and means...

The issue of quality control has become increasingly important as more online databases are integrated into digital libraries. This can have a dramatic eeect on the search eeectiveness of an online system. Authority work, the need to discover and reconcile variant forms of strings in bibliographic entries, will become more diicult. Spelling variants, misspellings, translation and transliteratio...

This article describes the results of our analysis of the data from the CiteSeer digital library. First, we examined the data from the point of view of source top-level Internet domains from which the data were collected. Second, we measured country shares in publications indexed by CiteSeer and compared them to those based on mainstream bibliographic data from the Web of Science and Scopus. An...

objective:the aim of this research is to identify common characteristics of invalid journals and to analyse iranian articles published in those journals.methodology; in this study, bibliometric methods are used. a checklist was used to collect information about journals included in the ministry of science, research and technology’s journals black list (october 2013 edition). journals’ websites ...

conclusions although iranian publications in the field of nephrology and urology have had a considerable and significant increase in the recent years amongst the middle eastern countries, there is a wide distance to be a science exporter country. results the total number of publications in the field of nephrology and urology was 3,771 (average of 189 papers per year). most of the iranian nephro...