Webcast: Finding and Using International Research Resources

Presenter: Jessica Chaiken

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Slide 1: REHABDATA Goes Global

Integrating the CIRRIE international research collection into NARIC’s REHABDATA database

Jessica Chaiken, National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)

December 13, 2016

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Slide 2: (re)Introducing NARIC and REHABDATA

•NARIC is the National Rehabilitation Information Center – funded by NIDILRR – serving as NIDILRR’s library and dissemination center.

•The NARIC collection spans more than 60 years of disability and rehabilitation research all indexed in the REHABDATA database.

•Prior to 2016, REHABDATA included approximately 100,000 citations

•Articles from peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and major magazines

•Original research produced by Federal grantees (primarily NIDILRR) including reports, manuals, curricula, white papers, theses, guides, factsheets, newsletters

•Commercially-published materials including textbooks

•REHABDATA went online in 1996, adding literature alerts in 1998 and full text documents in 2005.

Bottom left corner: Photograph, A panoramic view of the bookshelves holding about half of the NARIC collection. The other half is hidden in file cabinets.

Slide 3: Looking Outward – CIRRIE Builds Its Collection

•Beginning in 1999, NIDILRR funded the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE).

–Mission to facilitate the sharing of information between rehabilitation researchers in the US and other countries by supporting collaboration among the research community and by gathering and synthesizing the information this community produces.

–CIRRIE’s citation database built on the REHABDATA concept, including the Thesaurus, but with international scope

–CIRRIE also developed an excellent collection of original material

»International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation

»Cultural competency guides

»Annotated bibliographies

All but the database is still available at cirrie.buffalo.edu

Slide 4: Expanding REHABDATA’s Scope

•NARIC’s task for 2016: Adopt the CIRRIE citation database

–Step 1: Host the complete database at naric.com while the integration took place.

–Step 2: To import or not to import?

–Step 3: (re)Build the search functionality

–Step 4: (re)Create the reports

–Step 5: (re)Introduce new material

Slide 5: Basic and Advanced Search

•Multiple ways to search REHABDATA

–Basic search at naric.com

»All-fields, all-the-words (AND) search

»Searching spinal cord injury walking returns any records with those four words anywhere in the record (as a phrase or individually)

»Your results will include every type of document, including international research

Screenshot of NARIC home page: Navigation tabs: Home; Disability Resources; Our Publications; Knowledgebase; Articles, books & Reports. Search box in the center is labeled “What can we help you find today?”In the text box: spinal cord injury walking. First radio button selected: Journal articles, books, and reports from the NARIC library, including international research.

Screenshot of search results: Your Search Results: Total found for spinal cord injury walking 321. First 5 citations are displayed.

Slide 6: Basic and Advanced Search

•Include, exclude, or opt for only international research

–Advanced search page at

•Try one or more of the upper fields

•Search specific fields: Title, author, abstract, year, descriptor, NIDILRR grant number

•Opt to include, exclude, or limit to international, full text, available for delivery

Screenshot of NARIC search page: Enter your keywords. You may also learn more about REHABDATA and browse through the NARIC Collection.

Search all fields in REHABDATA for records.

Search specific fields in REHABDATA for records.

Slide 7: A sample advanced search

Phrase: Spinal cord injury

Any: walk, walking, gait, ambulation

International: YES!

Result: 578 abstracts!

REHABDATA Advanced search screenshot: Displays advanced search options for REHABDATA: all words search, phrase search (spinal cord injury displayed), any word search (displays walk, walking, gait, ambulation), omit words from the search, four specific field search options with drop lists to select a field, date range, full text option (set to no), document delivery option (set to no), and international research option (set to yes, including international research), drop lists for language and location

Slide 8: Browse your way through

•Not sure where to start? Try browsing by

–Thesaurus term – Every record in REHABDATA is indexed by a select group of keywords

  • Familiar with ICF terminology? Match ICF terms to Thesaurus terms to start your search

–New acquisitions

  • About 300 items are added each month (50-80 international pieces). Browse by curated descriptor groups to get an overview of what we recently added.

–Journals

  • Great way to get to know where the field is publishing and to find new international and open access journals

–Publishers

  • A smaller list, but highlights the biggest publishers in disability and rehabilitation

Slide 9: Looking forward

•NARIC will continue to grow the International Research collection, but with some important differences:

–Fewer new acquisitions, hand selected by NARIC librarians

–Original abstracts

–Focus on non-English publishers

•More International English articles as well

–Our acquisition efforts tended to focus on US research. New English-language acquisitions will also broaden in scope.

•New printed Thesaurus for 2017

Slide 10: Stay Up-to-Date

•Sign up for REHABDATA Connection

–Monthly literature awareness service

–One email, multiple topics, you choose what’s important to you

•Sign up for News and Notes

–Weekly email newsletter featuring resources, events, news, and more from the NIDILRR community

•Follow us

–@NARICInfo and @NARICenEspanol on Twitter

–Find us on Facebook (English and Spanish)

–Follow our Pinterest boards (NARICInfo)

Slide 11: Some Additional Resources

•Scholar.google.com – search in other languages using the Settings button

•PubMed.gov – the National Library of Medicine

•REHADAT.info – research on vocational participation (Germany)

•PEDro.au – Physiotherapy evidence database (Australia)

•DOAJ.org - Directory of Open Access Journals from 130 countries

•Kci.go.kr - Korean Open Access Journals

Slide 12: Jessica Chaiken

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National Rehabilitation Information Center

8400 Corporate Drive

Landover, MD

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Slide 13: Disclaimers

The contents of this presentationweredeveloped for a webcast presented under grant number 90DP0027 from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of thispresentationdo not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

The contents of this presentation were developed under contract number GS-06F-0726Z from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this presentation do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, or HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

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