News from the Libraries

Netter Presenter is one of the anatomy resources The Libraries make available for students, faculty, and staff.

The Libraries offer a wide range of online anatomy resources for use across campus and off campus:

Anatomy TV contains detailed 3D interactive modules.

Clinical Human Embryology explores the development of human systems from conception to birth.

NetAnatomy includes radiographic, cross-sectional, and gross anatomy. This resource is often used for USMLE preparation.

Netter Presenter contains images from the Netter: Atlas of Human Anatomy 5th Edition in a presentation and study format.

This is only a sample of the library’s online anatomy resources. Check out the full list of resources on the library’s databases web page limited by anatomy as subject: http://library.uthscsa.edu/category/databases/anatomy/.

For questions or assistance with any library resource, contact librarians at AskALibrarian@uthscsa.edu or call 567-2450.

John Weed, Head of Collection Resources

The Libraries subscribe to the Scopus database, which indexes over 20,000 publications including journal articles, trade publications, book series, and patents.

Scopus has a useful feature that simplifies searching by institutional affiliation, a process which can be cumbersome in other databases. An institutional affiliation search in Scopus creates a ready- made bibliography of publications by UTHSCSA authors sorted by journal. Scopus uses a combination of algorithms and a comprehensive knowledge base to disambiguate institutional name variants, identifying and matching an organization with its research output.

To begin an institutional affiliation search, select Scopus from the Databases section of the library’s website (http://www.library.uthscsa.edu). From the Scopus search screen, select “Affiliation search,” then enter University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

A recent Scopus affiliation search identified over 28,000 documents affiliated with the Health Science Center. The top five journals with publications by HSC authors were Journal of Biological Chemistry, Federation Proceedings, Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, Infection and Immunity, and Cancer Research.

Tipsheets for Scopus and other databases can be found on the library’s tipsheet page:  http://library.uthscsa.edu/2011/11/tipsheets-user-guides/.  A Scopus Quick Reference Guide can be found here.

For questions about Scopus or any other library database, contact AskaLibrarian@uthscsa.edu.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recently announced publication of a special themed issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) on altmetrics.  Guest Content Editor for the Summer 2013 issue of ISQ is Martin Fenner, Technical Lead, Article-Level Metrics for the Public Library of Science (PLOS). The articles he has assembled look at emerging best practices and challenges around the use of altmetrics.

The first article, Consuming Article-Level Metrics: Observations and Lessons, discusses the issues encountered when using scripting interfaces to obtain data from the largest article-level metrics providers: Altmetric, ImpactStory, Plum Analytics and PLOS.  Scott Chamberlain of Simon Fraser University looks at commonalities and differences in consistency, provenance, and context, and cautions about combining data across providers.

Institutional Altmetrics and Academic Libraries, an article by Robin Chin Roemer (University of Washington Libraries) and Rachel Borchardt (American University) looks at how altmetrics has begun to address the needs of institutions, and the roles librarians can play in enhancing and promoting their usefulness.

Three additional articles provide case studies for the way altmetrics are being used today.

ISQ is available in open access in electronic format on the NISO website. Both the entire Summer 2013 Altmetrics issue and the individual articles may be freely downloaded.

Print copies are available by subscription and as print on demand. For more information and to access the free electronic version, visit: http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2013/.

Katie Prentice, Head of Education and Information Services in the Briscoe Library,  published an article on altmetrics in the June issue of News from the Libraries.

Adapted from a piece by Cynthia Hodgson, ISQ Managing Editor