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Leading The Horses To Water They'll Want To Drink: Strategies For Promoting Your Institutional Repository On And Off Campus, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi

Daniel G. Kipnis

This presentation will outline strategies designed to promote institutional repositories to a university community.

Strategies For Searching The Internet For Orthopedic Surgeons: Tips And Tricks, Fatih Küçükdurmaz, Md, Terry Whipple, Md, Murat Bozkurt, Md, Daniel G. Kipnis

Daniel G. Kipnis

Internet provides access to large amounts of information quickly, provides a flexible learning platform, and is easily accessible from anywhere, especially with new technologies. Web-based search engines and bibliographic databases, have already become part of a doctor's everyday life. However, even well-published researchers often fail to appreciate the background knowledge required to conduct a good literature search on the internet. Using the right techniques can improve the ability to search for relevant information This chapter briefly outlines the internet for information resources such as Google, Google Scholar, PubMed, Cochrane for orthopedic surgeons. Also the subsequent sections of the chapter offers …

Strategies For Searching The Internet For Orthopedic Surgeons: Tips And Tricks, Daniel Kipnis

Daniel G. Kipnis

If We Knew Then What We Know Now: Lessons Learned In Managing Two Academic Health Science Institutional Repositories, Daniel G. Kipnis, Lisa A. Palmer

Daniel G. Kipnis

Institutional repositories (IRs) provide their institutions with services for managing and disseminating digital materials created by members of the institution, especially scholarly works of a research institution. In this poster, two institutional repository managers working at different academic health science centers share lessons learned from 13 combined years of managing their respective IRs. The two IR managers reviewed emails, phone conversations and in-person conversations to compile tips for marketing and developing a successful institutional repository.

Take Advantage Of The Jefferson Digital Commons For Shameless Self-Promotion, Ann Koopman, Am, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi

Daniel G. Kipnis

It's a win-win academic opportunity--promote your Jefferson research and publishing efforts to the world by participating in the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). The JDC increases your visibility. With over 2,000 different archived full-text resources including academic articles, posters, preprints, videos, images, teaching materials and newsletters you get permanent public space for all types of files AND your work is indexed by search engines like Google. Receive monthly alerts notifying you how many times your works have been downloaded. Create a faculty researcher page. Use the JDC as a university press and publish your department newsletters or create a new journal. …

Ranking Library Tasks For Redesigning A Medical Academic Health Center And University Mobile Web Site, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi, Gary Kaplan, Mslis, Ann Koopman, Am, Brian Kysela, Joseph Zavorski

Daniel G. Kipnis

Objectives: (1) To determine what library-related tasks users most want to be able to perform on their mobile devices (smartphones, iPads,etc.), using a modified Likert scale, freetext and multiple choice questions to rank the most common tasks. (2) To redesign our existing Library mobile site.

The Effect Of Required Ipads On Library Use, Gary Kaplan, Mslis, Dorothy Berenbrok, Mslis, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi, Helena Washington, Mls

Daniel G. Kipnis

OBJECTIVES Measure the impact on Library use of a new requirement by anaccelerated, one-year nursing program that all students haveiPads loaded with the required texts and determine whether theLibrary should continue offering these books in print. Poster presented at Medical Library Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA 2012.