SPI-Hub™: a gateway to scholarly publishing information.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advances in the health sciences rely on sharing research and data through publication. As information professionals are often asked to contribute their knowledge to assist clinicians and researchers in selecting journals for publication, the authors recognized an opportunity to build a decision support tool, SPI-Hub: Scholarly Publishing Information Hub™, to capture the team's collective publishing industry knowledge, while carefully retaining the quality of service.

Case presentation

SPI-Hub's decision support functionality relies on a data framework that describes journal publication policies and practices through a newly designed metadata structure, the Knowledge Management Journal Record™. Metadata fields are populated through a semi-automated process that use

SUBMITTER: Koonce TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7069808 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature