Useful Notesfor Academic Staff

By

Mohammad H. Farjoo M.D. , Ph.D.Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science

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Important Notice!

Useful Notes

DOI & CrossRef Impact Factor Alerts & RSS Podcasts & Other Multi Media Online Dictionary wikipedia

DOI & CrossRef

DOI (digital object identifier) is a unique number and is used for: Finding an article Refer to an unprinted or online article

CrossRef: means cross reference to the article in another resource.

CrossRef is an official DOI Registration Agency. It is a cooperation among publishers to enable cross-

publisher citation linking in online journals

doi

Full text from CrossRef

In Some sites only: CrossRef

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Impact Factor

The impact factor (IF), is a measure of the citations to journals.

IF is calculated each year by Thomson Scientific for the journals which it indexes.

IF is published in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The IF of a journal is calculated in a two-year period. It is the average of citations in a year to the papers in

a journal that were published in the two preceding years.

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Impact Factor (Cont’d)

For example, the 2003 impact factor of a journal would be calculated as follows: A = the number of times articles published in 2001-2 were

cited in indexed journals during 2003

B = the number of "citable items" published in 2001-2

2003 impact factor = A/B

So a journal that is cited once, on average, for each article published, has an IF of 1.

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In almost all resources you can set alert and/or RSS. Alerts are a component of Push Technology.

They send the required information automatically by e-mail.

Not all kinds of alerts are included in every resource.

“Science Direct“ has most types of alerts.

At least one type of alert is often found in a resource.

Alerts & RSS

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Search alert: uses a pre-determined search according to a time table and retrieves the new results.

Topic/Subject alert: finds the relevant articles. TOC alert : sends the table of contents of new issues

of journals. volume/issue alert: notifies when a new issue of the

journal is available. Citation alert: sends alert whenever a favorite article

is cited.

Alerts & RSS (Cont’d)

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RSS stands for: Realy Simple Syndication.

It has XML format to publish frequently updated web pages.

RSS is also called “feed“ or “RSS feed”.

Feeds benefit readers by: Subscribe to updates from favored websites To aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.

Alerts & RSS (Cont’d)

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RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader“ or "feed reader“ (eg: IE7 or Microsoft Outlook).

The RSS reader checks the subscribed feeds and shows the updates.

The user subscribes to a feed by clicking an RSS icon in a browser.

Alerts & RSS (Cont’d)

RSS Icon (usual shape)

RSS Icon in web page

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Podcasts and other multi media

Podcast: combination of the words iPod & broadcast.

It is similar to radio broadcasting, only via the web.

A podcast is a series of audio or video files which is distributed over the Internet.

It is actually a RSS file with information about the location and contents of a media file.

Podcasts can be subscribed to, and downloaded automatically when new content is added.

Do not miss podcasts!

Listen | Read review

Other multimedia

BMJ site & group

Latest Podcasts

CDC site

Podcasts/RSS Feeds

http://www.cdc.gov

Audio summary

Only audio file for current issue

http://nejm.org

CurrentIssue

Download Summary MP3Subscribe to Podcast

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/

Videos

Video center

Journal of Visualized Experiments

It is NOT free!

Free Access

But there are free media!

Free video

Description of Protocol

http://www.onelook.com

Type a word and…

See its meaning in different fields

http://wikipedia.org

http://en.wikipedia.org

Go Finds the word in Wikipedia

Shows a list of related documentsSearch

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