Author Archives: Dean Giustini

Microsoft Academic Search in beta is a free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research. It covers more than 38 million publications and over 19 million authors across a variety of domains with updates added each week. This large collection … Continue reading →

1) Age-weighted citation rate (AWCR, AWCRpA) & AW-index 2) Contemporary h-index 3) Eigenfactor 4) Egghe’s g-index 5) E-index 6) Google’s I10-index 7) Hirsch’s h-index Individual h-index 9) R-Impact 10) Universal h-index 11) ‘w-index’ or Wu Index

Start managing your scholarly citations using a new reference manager called Colwiz (short for collective wisdom). Use ColWiz to read and share papers, annotate PDF files, find research trends, and generate bibliographies… What is ColWiz? Colwiz is a freely-available reference … Continue reading →

In LIBR534 – Health information sources and services we explored a variety of evidence-based health care issues and librarian competencies. In that spirit, here is a resurrected and modified top ten competencies in EBP circa 2012. Articulate the five (5) … Continue reading →

Review of health librarianship course 2012 at UBC View more documents from Dean Giustini

HLABC Continuing Education March 27 2012 View more presentations from Dean Giustini

Two of my Brit colleagues, the witty Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, asked me to write a chapter for their new book called “Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0″ (see contents). The book, published in April 2012, is divided into three parts; Part … Continue reading →

Social connections are critical to our health and wellbeing. These connections refer to our relationships with others. More specifically, social connection is meaningful, positive interactions with others. It makes us feel good — that we matter to others and that … Continue reading →

A Shared Evening of Innovation Among Health Librarians, March 27th A joint meeting of LIBR534 students & HLABC members will highlight speakers and presentations (8-10 minutes) about what they do: introductions, background and what got them into the field. Each … Continue reading →

One of the best decisions I’ve made in my career as an academic librarian was to start blogging and authoring a wiki. The best thing about these activities is leaving a paper trail of ideas I feel are important to … Continue reading →