Faculty Authors Bibligraphy - 2004

Faculty Authors Bibligraphy - 2004 - Introduction

FACULTY AUTHORS BIBLIOGRAPHY
July 2003 - June 2004
INTRODUCTION

This 2003/04 compilation of New York Medical College (NYMC) faculty scholarship is the eleventh edition of what is now an annual tradition. Our goal is to celebrate the contributions of faculty from the previous academic year. The staff of the Health Sciences Library produces this bibliography, which is available in print and electronic form. (available at http://library.nymc.edu). After eleven years, it is becoming an institutional repository!

Since September 1993, this bibliography and the faculty scholarship it documents are celebrated at the annual Author Recognition Celebration. From the beginning the Dean and Provost co-sponsor the event with the Library, which we term a sherry. It is now a faculty development activity for the University.

Every effort is made to be as comprehensive as possible. The database begins with letters and submission forms sent to all 2900+ NYMC faculty from all three schools: School of Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, and School of Public Health. Lists of faculty members are as of May 17, 2003. The letter is also sent to department heads, program directors, course coordinators, and the deans of the respective schools. An email reminder follows. In addition, standard bibliographical sources (see below) are searched and added to the database. Only twenty percent is duplication. Thirty percent requires manual entry which means that these citations were not found in electronic databases.

To meet model standards of documentation, each citation was verified against a copy of the publication. This year a number of web-based citations were submitted; they are documented as of the date received per current standards. Copies were obtained from the author, our collection, or through interlibrary loan. For inclusion, all authors had to cite NYMC and have published between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2004. Overall, 750 sources are included representing the publishing efforts of 373 faculty members.

Sources

Journals, Journal Articles, Editorials, Reviews and Letters.

Citations are as complete as possible. The following indexing/abstracting sources were searched: PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO, LEXIS-NEXIS, Biomedical Reference Collection, Nursing and Allied Health Collection, Health Reference Center, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences and websites. The search methodology combined the designated field containing the author affiliation address with the publication years and types of publications. It must be noted that in some databases (e.g. PubMed) only the address of the first author is included. This is an inherent limitation when searching the institutional field in a database.

Books and Chapters of books.

The selection of books and chapters of books was made through library acquisition lists and author submissions. For the most part, books and chapters of books are not readily available in electronic databases. Therefore, authors are continually encouraged to alert the library about newly published books and chapters.

Arrangement

The arrangement of the bibliography is in two parts: by author and by department. The first part contains a listing of bibliographic citations alphabetized by first author. Each college author who is not a first author is cross-referenced to the first author. The full citation appears under the name of the first author. The second part contains a listing of all NYMC authors by departments and/or schools. Citations are formatted in accordance with the National Library of Medicine Index Medicus, which conforms to American National Standard for Bibliographic References ANSI Z39.29-1977.

This bibliography was compiled and edited by Cheryl Silver, Assistant Professor, Assistant Director of Information Processing. Nina Kurzban, Librarian, Paul-John Ramos, Assistant Collection Development Librarian, and Michael Modugno, Library Assistant, provided invaluable support in the production of this bibliography.

The Health Sciences Library is so pleased to acknowledge and promote the scholarly contributions of the faculty. The staff is also pleased to receive the support of the President, Provost, Deans, Department Chairs, Office of Faculty Development, and most importantly, our publishing faculty.

The Library invites feedback at any time.

Diana Cunningham, Associate Dean and Director
December 2004