Developing an e-journal

to review the

mobile medical computing literature

Jeffery LooINLS 882April 17, 2007

“We believe in a former life she was an editor.”

outline

development of the journal

lessons learned

future research

What is mobile medical computing?

data collectionreference lookup

calculationsadministration

Let’s summarize the learning points from

the literature!

Why is this journal important?

doctors juggle diverse information needs(Smith, 1996)

doctors have limited timefor information seeking

(Ely et al., 1999)

mobile medical computing offers solutions

goals

ethical

low cost

independence

accessibility & archival copy

encourage learning

international scholars

digital publishing

system

OpenJournal

Systems

OpenJournal

Systems

how does the journal look?

lessons learned

student experimentation

global collaboration

mentorship

Telemachus and Mentor

extracting insightful learning points

providing thoughtful and encouraging criticism

LIS skills in publishing

CHANGE

GOOD(FOR THE BETTER)

continualimprovement

future research

reflect on our organic development

as an upstart journal

patterns and trendsin article summaries by

professionals of different disciplines

impact of articles

value of librarians to journal publishing

develop training for writing concise

evaluative summaries

templates for summarization

questions?

“There are many questions of course, that won’tbe answered till the autopsy.”

“I still don’t have all the answers, but I’m

beginning to ask the right questions.”