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Medical Library Association Annual Conference: Honolulu, Hawaii (May 15-20, 2009). Paper by: Ryan Max Steinberg, Richard Zwies, Charles Yates, Chris Stave,Yannick Pouliot, Heidi Heilemann. Presented by Richard Zwies May 19, 2009.
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A DIVISION OF IRT
SmartSearch: Automated
Recommendations Using Librarian
Expertise and PubMed E-Utilities Ryan Max Steinberg, Richard Zwies, Charles Yates, Chris Stave,
Yannick Pouliot, & Heidi Heilemann
Presented by Richard Zwies Web Production Specialist
Lane Medical Library & Knowledge
Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
Lane Medical Library Website
•!Clinicians, faculty, students, researchers
!!Stanford School of Medicine
!!Stanford Hospital & Clinics
!!Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
!!Palo Alto VA
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
A Wealth of Digital Content
•! 5,400 eJournals
•! 6,800 eBooks
•!Clinical/article databases
•! Video lectures, bioinformatics tools,
images, historical materials…
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
Lane Clinical Metasearch
•! 150 metasearch resources on the
clinical portal
•!Clinical textbooks, handbooks, atlases,
drug databases, and practice
guidelines, article databases
•!Most “gently” used
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
Example “DVT”
1.!Query term “DVT”
2.! “Venous Thrombosis” most frequent
heading from PubMed articles
3.!SmartSearch Map:
No “Venous Thrombosis” resources
4.!Climbs MeSH tree to find
“Vascular Diseases”" 3 resources
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
Hypothesis
That resources recommended by the
SmartSearch system would be used
more heavily than peer metasearch
resources not included in the project.
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
Methods
•!Website clicks to metasearch resources
(WebTrends)
•! Before & after rollout to SmartSearch
(3 mos. of data each)
•! Linear regression of change (slopes) of
peer resources vs. SmartSearch
resources
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
Results
•!No significant difference between
change in views of peer resources &
SmartSearch resources
•! Slope = 0.3882 ± 0.3296
•!R2 = 0.008927
•! P = 0.2407 (deviates from slope = 0)
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
Next Steps
•!Relocate to clinical search interface
•!Refine the resource & subject maps
•!Recommend people: librarians?
•!Refine the algorithm
•!Other uses?
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
A DIVISION OF IRT
Thank you
Richard Zwies, Web Production Specialist
Richard Zwies - Web Production Specialist, Lane Medical Library &
Knowledge Management Center
