Sandy De Groote
Scholarly Communications Librarian
Research Interests
- My current research relates to the impact of online health sciences resources on the use of print and online publications. Studying the use of publications over time from the period prior to the introduction of online end-user databases and online journals to their proliferation inform about differences between disciplines, scholarly publishing patterns, and trends useful to health sciences libraries. I have examined the impact of online journals on the use of the print journal collection, the impact of online journals on the citation patterns of health sciences faculty, and investigated users awareness of databases and online journals and the frequency of their use.
- I will now begin to study the cross-disciplinary nature of research. Specifically, I will study the impact of online journals on the cross-disciplinary citation patterns of health sciences faculty (nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, medicine and dentistry). My questions is: now that we have multiple online databases and online journals, are faculty more likely to cite journals outside of their specific disciplines, more than they did prior to the introduction of online journals and databases? Students with an interest and/or background in the health sciences are welcome to contact me at sgroote@uic.edu about a research experience on this topic.
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- Title Scholarly Communications Librarian
- College Library
- Department University Library
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