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Developing an e-journal
to review the
mobile medical computing literature
Jeffery LooINLS 882April 17, 2007
“We believe in a former life she was an editor.”
outline
development of the journal
lessons learned
future research
What is mobile medical computing?
data collectionreference lookup
calculationsadministration
Let’s summarize the learning points from
the literature!
Why is this journal important?
doctors juggle diverse information needs(Smith, 1996)
doctors have limited timefor information seeking
(Ely et al., 1999)
mobile medical computing offers solutions
goals
ethical
low cost
independence
accessibility & archival copy
encourage learning
international scholars
digital publishing
system
OpenJournal
Systems
OpenJournal
Systems
how does the journal look?
lessons learned
student experimentation
global collaboration
mentorship
Telemachus and Mentor
extracting insightful learning points
providing thoughtful and encouraging criticism
LIS skills in publishing
CHANGE
GOOD(FOR THE BETTER)
continualimprovement
future research
reflect on our organic development
as an upstart journal
patterns and trendsin article summaries by
professionals of different disciplines
impact of articles
value of librarians to journal publishing
develop training for writing concise
evaluative summaries
templates for summarization
questions?
“There are many questions of course, that won’tbe answered till the autopsy.”
“I still don’t have all the answers, but I’m
beginning to ask the right questions.”