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This has always felt like one of those "easy" things that's alarmingly
complicated without at least one of the following
A) universal faculty participation
B) extensive work with the A&I services relevant to your campus to mine
citation lists for your current faculty
C) people dedicated working with campus departments (who presumably already
track this) to get the information.


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On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya <
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> Hi guys,
>
> Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you
> do it?
>
> Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research:
> - RSS feeds from the major databases
> - RefWorks citation lists
>
> These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24
> colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking
> students.
>
> Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just
> interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our
> faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting
> days/weeks/months/years after the fact.
>
> Thanks!
> Allie
>
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