Irish healthcare information

Tracing Irish healthcare information on the web can be difficult and RCSI Library has a dedicated web guide to Irish resources and agencies.

A new Irish resource is the online library and research service of the Oireachtas  This service captures all documentation and reports available to the Irish houses of parliament with coverage of Irish public healthcare material from many official organizations.


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New YouTube video

Check out our new YouTube video on using the Clinical Summaries.  DynaMed, UpToDate and Clinical Evidence are evidence-based summaries appraising healthcare topics and treatments.

Our RCSI Library YouTube channel now has a collection of seven videos:

• An introduction to clinical summaries
• Searching the library catalogue
• How to place a hold on a book
• Renewing your books and using your library account
• Using the e-book collection
• Using the Emerald e-journal collection
• Finding a full text article using the E-journal Portal 

Open Access and The Cost of Knowledge

Joined up open access. Scholarly publishing for Ireland. Rip off academic publishers.

Open Access discussed by Jane Grimson TCD, Cormac O'Grada UCD, Eoin O'Reilly UCC and other Irish researchers at the Royal Irish Academy.  

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MyRI Measuring your research impact

MyRI  Measuring your research impact

Video created by the libraries of DCU, DIT, NUIM and UCD


Module 1  :   Bibliometrics

Introduction and definition
Research assessment and evaluation – stakeholders   

• Government and funding agencies
• Institutional management and administration
• College, faculties, schools
• Individual researchers
• The main metrics 

Publication and citation counts
H-index
The main tools

• Web of Science
• Scopus
• Google Scholar + Publish or Perish

Module 2 :  Track your research impact

Citation analysis tools
Citation searching
SWOT of Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar
Using citation analysis tools
Search for your publications

• How many citations?
• Most highly cited paper?
• Setting citation alerts

Introduction to the H-index
Calculating your H-index (by database)

Other metrics

• Metrics from institutional repositories
• Publication and citation data for a group or department
• Institutional affiliation
• Benchmarking research performance
• Essential Science Indicators

Module 3:  Journal ranking and analysis

Journal ranking and analysis
Journal Citation Reports
Journal Impact Factor calculations and high impact journals
Journal metrics by category
Individual journal metrics
Issues and limitations



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Open Access Ireland

Irish researchers are advised or mandated by the main research funding bodies to make their work freely available by depositing publications in an open access repository. Major Irish healthcare related repositories include the HSE's Lenus and RCSI's e-publications.

The National Steering Committee on Open Access Policy promotes awareness of open access to research and data in Ireland and has launched a new website with news and resources about OA.

The Committee aims to

- inform the research community and the public about open access

- ensure all researchers in the country are able to make their make their work openly accessible, through at least one open access repository;

- support the evolution of a state-of-the-art and all-inclusive national open access infrastructure.

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Extended opening hours in the Mercer Library

We will now be open  0700 to 0100 from Monday November 11 through to the end of examinations in mid January. All details on the library website.

Statistical data on the web

Looking for statistical information on the web presented as graphs, tables and charts? Conventional search engines cannot easily distinguish data as charts or graphs. The Zanran search engine was developed to do exactly that. Zanran search results  - graphs, tables, etc. - can all be quickly previewed by mouse-hovering over the thumbnails.

Zanran

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