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15 people are interested
Adopt-a-journal: gather metadata for safety-relevant articles & send it to SafetyLit
ORGANIZATION: SafetyLit Foundation
Please visit the new page to apply.
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15 people are interested
Although some tasks can be easily done by anyone anywhere, SafetyLit is also seeking experts in library science and content experts in the many professional disciplines that publish material relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, interpersonal violence, and self harm.
SafetyLit has formal agreements with essentially all major publishers and many smaller publishers to share citation and abstract material with users of the SafetyLit website and database. Although these publishers send their metadata to SafetyLit by FTP, we find that, for many journals, it is more efficient to visit the publishers' websites, search issue's table of contents, and selectively download article metadata to Zotero (free software) where it can then edited and exported in MODS format to be imported to the SafetyLit system.
We are seeking volunteers to view the TOCs of assigned journals, capture the metadata and abstracts of relevant articles and supply the metadata to SafetyLit.
Also seeking help with setting-up an OpenURL link-resolver to allow SafetyLit users within institutions that have subscription access to scholarly journals to download full text articles.
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About SafetyLit Foundation
Location:
4438 Ingraham St., SAN DIEGO, CA 92109, US
Mission Statement
The mission of the SafetyLit Foundation is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic database of scholarly journal articles, technical reports, and theses concerning all issues of safety arising from many professional disciplines and nations. SafetyLit strives to index these items in a way that access to information by policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, and the general public will not be hindered by obscure professional jargon or arcane search terms.
Description
SafetyLit is a free service of the SafetyLit foundation in cooperation with San Diego State University and the World Health Organization. SafetyLit is donor supported and all of SafetyLit services are presented without advertising. SafetyLit includes books, technical reports, academic theses, and soon again book chapters. The database includes about 500,000 records. Journal articles arise form more than 14,000 publications from more than 30 distinct professional disciplines. About 700 new and archival items are added to the database each week. Records date to the mid-17th century with material about the safety of farmers, mariners, and miners. SafetyLit staff and volunteers hand examine journal articles, etc. to identify those items that meet the inclusion criteria (see: http://www.safetylit.org/faq.html ).
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
June 29, 2016
SKILLS
- Internet Research
- Research
- Library Sciences
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- A few hours / month to several hours / week
- Internet access, ideally from within a university