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Using Netvibes to create a current awareness service in healthcare

Using Netvibes to create a current awareness service in healthcare. Jason Curtis Electronic Resources Librarian Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries. The dilemma. How to provide current awareness to a diverse range of departments and professions?

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Using Netvibes to create a current awareness service in healthcare

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  1. Using Netvibes to create a current awareness service in healthcare Jason Curtis Electronic Resources Librarian Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries

  2. The dilemma • 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

  3. Why Netvibes? • 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

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

  5. Team Knowledge Update contains… • Contents of the latest • journals, automatically • updated • Those available in • full-text with NHS • Athens accounts are • marked in green

  6. Team Knowledge Update contains… • Latest news from National • Library for Health • Specialist Libraries • and other sources

  7. Team Knowledge Update contains… • Recent books added to • our libraries • (currently via Shelfari • Widgets)

  8. RSS feeds come from… • 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

  9. More RSS feeds… • 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

  10. Advantages of the site • 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

  11. Promoting local resources • 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)

  12. The idea of browsing… • 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)

  13. Email alerts from the site • 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

  14. Creating further feeds • 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)

  15. The ‘social’ aspect • 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

  16. The future… • 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

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