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Facilitating Student-led Diamond Open Access Publishing in the Library
No full textEdinburgh Diamond is a book and journal hosting service, based in the University of Edinburgh’s library. A free service for our staff and students, Edinburgh Diamond seeks to embolden and support those who wish to be involved with diamond open access publishing. Almost half of the journals we host are student-led publications. This article demonstrates why student-led open access publishing is important for student engagement, experiential learning, and academic literacy, and how the library helps facilitate that
preVIEW: from a fast prototype towards a sustainable semantic search system for central access to COVID-19 preprints
Full text linkThe current COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the use of so-called preprints - a type of publication that is not subject to peer review. Due to its global relevance, there is an immense number of COVID-19-related preprints every day. To help researchers find relevant information, we have developed the semantic search engine preVIEW, it integrates preprints from currently seven different preprint servers. For semantic indexing, we implemented various text mining components to tag, for example, diseases or SARS-CoV-2 specific proteins. While the service initially served as a prototype developed together with users, we present a re-engineering towards a sustainable semantic search system, which was inevitable due to the continuously growing number of preprint publications. This enables easy reuse of the components and allows rapid adaptation of the service to further user needs
Promoting the history of medicine through special collections: the experience of Campus Bio-Medico University Library (Rome, Italy)
Full text linkPreserving the history of medicine is an important task for health sciences librarians. In this regard, the provision of special collections can play a significative role. This article presents the initiative of the University of Rome Campus Bio-Medico Library (UCBML) in creating valuable sources for the history of medicine through the establishment of several special collections. The aim of this article is to highlight the importance of special collections to promote issues relating to the field of medical history.  
Building a Systematic Online Living Evidence Summary of COVID-19 Research
Full text linkThroughout the global coronavirus pandemic, we have seen an unprecedented volume of COVID-19 researchpublications. This vast body of evidence continues to grow, making it difficult for research users to keep up with the pace of evolving research findings. To enable the synthesis of this evidence for timely use by researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders, we developed an automated workflow to collect, categorise, and visualise the evidence from primary COVID-19 research studies. We trained a crowd of volunteer reviewers to annotate studies by relevance to COVID-19, study objectives, and methodological approaches. Using these human decisions, we are training machine learning classifiers and applying text-mining tools to continually categorise the findings and evaluate the quality of COVID-19 evidence