Year 2001 Journal Survey Results
The 2001 Library Journal Survey was on the OHSU Library Web site from August 1 - 31, 2001.
It was announced in the August 2001 issue of OHSU Outlook and distributed to all OHSU employees on
a GroupWise e-mail on August 1.
The 160 surveys completed represent about 1.6% of the OHSU faculty, staff, and student
(160 of 10,000 employees)
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| Resident | ||
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Faculty, students and staff from over 70 schools, departments, divisions and institutes contributed to the results.
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| School of Medicine-Clinical Science | ||
| School of Medicine-Basic Sciences | ||
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| School of Nursing | ||
| Health Care Services | ||
| School of Dentistry | ||
| OSU College of Pharmacy at OHSU | ||
| OGI School of Science & Engineering | ||
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The highest ranking of the 97 fields, topics or keywords reported were:
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology
- Immunology
- Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research
- Neuroscience
- Neurology
- Nursing
- Oncology
- Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Pharmacology and Pharmacy
- Public Health
Question 4. What are the top 5 journals in your field that are most important to your work at OSHU?
The top 10 journals of most importance to OHSU community and number of responses were:
- Science (25)
- Nature (23)
- Cell (17)
- Journal of Neuroscience (16)
- Proceed of the National Academy of Sciences (12)
- Nature Neuroscience (11)
- Neuron (10)
- New England Journal of Medicine (10)
- JAMA (9)
- Journal of Biol. Chemistry (8)
OHSU Library currently subscribes to all of the top 10 journals in both print and electronic format.
A current subscription is available from either a Marquam Hill or West Campus OHSU Library for 295 of 445 titles (66%) listed as "journals most important to your work at OHSU."
The electronic format is available for 228 of the 445 titles (51%). Most, but not all of these journals require a print copy to be purchased before electronic format can be made available.
Question 5. Which of these titles from the Current Protocol series should the library consider adding in electronic format?
There were a total of 250 responses to this question. Seventy responded that this series was not in their field of interest. If the response was "All of the above", one count was added to each series title.
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| Current Protocols in Human Genetics | ||
| Current Protocols in Immunology |
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| Current Protocols in Neuroscience | Current Protocols in Protein Science | None of the Above |
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Over the next year, each of these topics will be reviewed by members of the Collection Development Committee. Any journals recommended will be considered in September for purchase in 2002.
Topics:
- Need more on cancer/terminal illness management. Please keep pushing for nursings, gerontology, palliative care titles accessible electronically from non-Portland campuses.
- Nutrition
- Minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery
- Rehabilitation in general, with a particular emphasis from our perspective on Speech Pathology.
- Pharmacoeconomics and drug policy
- Functional Genomics and Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Biotechnology
- Academic general pediatrics
- Lactation
- Biostatistics
- More clinical practice guidelines and the research about them, Health policy and Primary Care Research
- All Keywords: Neurobehavior, impact on health and changing lifestyle, ethnicity
- Health policy
- More informatics, telehealth content journals. This is a rapidly emerging area that crosses all the schools.
- Viral Immunology
- Genomics/ genomic sequence evaluation
- Interventional radiology/ endoluminal surgery
- Health promotion
- Research on Helicobacter Pylori
- Behavioral Neurogenetics
- Critical thinking in acute care
- Medical education - need journal teaching and learning in medicine. Literature in medicine - not sure if library carries journal literature in medicine. Would be nice to have a better collection of literary works related to medicine
- Bioinformatics
- Melanoma Research
- Medical informatics and bioinformatics
- Some of the more social science behavioral journals. They can be helpful when studying social determinants of health. Also some demography titles might be helpful.
- Palliative Care (especially since we have the Center for Ethics with emphasis on death/dying & a P20 grant through the School of Nursing for developing a Center for Symptom Management).
- Imaging Research (MRI, fMRI); Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry
- Pharmacoeconomics / Health Technology Assessment
- Rehabilitation practices - adult and child. Includes counseling, psychotherapy, related occupational therapy and vocational counseling areas.
- Symptom Management
- Genetics
- Interventional vascular nursing and interventional cardiology
- Ethics in health care field
- More on the human genome project
- Complementary and Alternative medicine has been improved with addition of
2 journals but is still lacking considering the large amount of NIH funding to
OHSU in this area.
Feedback: Members of the OHSU Library Collection Development Committee developed and implemented this survey. For further details or discussion of results, please contact:
Diane Carroll, PhD - Chair of the OHSU Library Collection Development Committee at carroldi@ohsu.edi or call 503 494-6659
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