SmartSearch: automated recommendations using librarian expertise and the National Center for Biotechnology Information's Entrez programming utilities.

摘要

INTRODUCTION:Librarians are in the recommendation business. Our customers rely on us to recommend what they should read, which database is preferable over another, or which textbook might answer a background question. As digital gate counts increase and outpace traditional face-to-face interactions [1], the need to integrate librarian recommendations into digital systems grows. SmartSearch represents an automated approach to offering digital expert guidance to customers.The Lane Medical Library & Knowledge Management Center provides information access and knowledge management services for the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital, and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Lane's mission is to get the right knowledge, to the right person, at the right time, in the right context to support translational research, innovative education, and advances in patient care. This is largely accomplished via the LaneConnex web interface [2], a library search platform that performs a metasearch across hundreds of licensed and open access knowledge resources.