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At one point BibApp looked like it was going to be a good alternative to
#3 on Bohyun's hierarchy  Release 1.0 was made in July 2010, so I don't
know if it is still being worked on.

http://bibapp.org/



On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bohyun Kim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Allie,
>
> (With the caveat that compiling the comprehensive faculty publication db
> is not a walk in the park at all particularly if you want to include the
> publications from when the faculty were working at other institutions and
> also by all types of faculty- not just full-time or tenured.)
>
> You can do any of these:
>
> 1. RefShare list through Refworks
> 2. RSS feeds from databases (by looking up the institution of the author)
> 3. Build Custom database  (Ours beta site is at:
> http://bayonet.fiu.edu/library/facpub/  if you want to take a look)
> 4. Use IR
> 5. License proprietary products (e.g. Digital Measures or Sedona)
>
> At MPOW, we tried 1 and 2 but switched to 3 recently. We have IR but do
> not use it for faculty publication database purposes But we are thinking
> about using it in conjunction with 3 so that 3 would link to the full-text
> if there exists any pre/post print articles in the IR.
>
> My college (medical school) is also considering 5. I was in the meeting
> with the vendors for these products and they do much more than keeping
> track of publications and do keep track of all faculty activities -
> publication, services, committees, courses, teachings, conference
> presentations, etc. for statistical purposes. But faculty members are asked
> to enter the items themselves (or find the department staff who will do it
> for them).
>
> ~Bohyun
>
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> Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS
> Digital Access Librarian
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> ________________________________________
> From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Alevtina
> Verbovetskaya [[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
>
> 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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