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Using Netvibes to create a current awareness service in healthcare

Jason Curtis

Electronic Resources Librarian

Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries

• How to provide current awareness to a diverse range of departments and professions?
• How to avoid duplicating work already being done elsewhere in the NHS?
• The solution? Netvibes!
• www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries

• Easy to add RSS feeds from any source
• Easy to create public pages (Universes) with multiple ‘tabs’
• No need for our users to register or login to view the site

• We called it Team Knowledge Update to reflect our support for Team Knowledge Officers
• Contains multiple ‘tabs’ for a range of subjects

• Contents of the latest
• journals, automatically
• updated
• Those available in
• full-text with NHS
• Athens accounts are
• marked in green

• Latest news from National
• Library for Health
• Specialist Libraries
• and other sources

• Recent books added to
• our libraries
• (currently via Shelfari
• Widgets)

• National Library for Health (Specialist Libraries and other feeds from the RSS directory)
• National electronic Library for Medicine
• BMJ and AMA Journals (full-text for NHS Athens)
• BioMed Central journals (free full-text)
• MedWorm (pre-configured and search query results

• EBSCOHost databases (CINAHL full-text and Health Business elite)
• This provides RSS feeds for journals available in full-text for NHS Athens and for most print journals held in our libraries

• Shows a selection of journals and RSS feeds available in a given subject
• Access to full-text at article level (where available via NHS Athens or open access)
• Assists users who don’t want to set up an RSS reader or search for feeds

• Provides contents for journals purchased in print for our libraries
• Displays details of our new books by subject
• Somewhere to display our local RSS feeds (such as our blog and local staff publications on Connotea)

• Recreating the current journals display (but in this case, more usefully ‘shelved’ by subject)
• Finding interesting articles by serendipity
• See new books on a topic (rather than just a list of all books for the previous month)

• Feedback has shown that users still like email alerts
• We’re using Yahoo! Pipes and Feedburner to create email subscription services for each subject tab
• Users will receive an email each day something new appears on their chosen subject

• We’re trying out Feed43 to create feeds from:
• Subject categories of Behind the Headlines (e.g. cancer)
• New books by subject from our Library Management System (OLIB 7.6)

• Our users and other health libraries can:
• Add feeds from our pages to their own Netvibes or iGoogle pages
• Clone our Yahoo! Pipes to create their own combined feeds

• New feeds from the proposed NHS England alerting service can be added when available
• More subject tabs will be added in response to feedback
• We’ll do an evaluation of the site after six months
• www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries