1. Knowledge Informatics
Dorice L. Vieira, MLS, MA, MPH
Associate Curator
NYU School of Medicine |Langone Medical Center
College of Global Public Health

2. An Information Society
As an information society, we require higher levels of education and training that required of previous generations. “The developments ask for a greater capacity for innovation, self-management, personal responsibility, and self direction.” N. Branden, the Six Pillars of Slef-Esteem (New York: Bantam, 1995, pps

3. Goals for Today After today’s session, you should
Understand the term “Knowledge Informatics”
Appreciate the landscape navigating to key information tools and services in support of research, including locating relevant funding resources
Apply advanced skills for accessing the fundamental biomedical information tools
Systematically approach the information-seeking process
Determine the evidence-based value of results
It’s not about going to Google or Google Scholar. These tools are perfectly acceptable. It’s more about questioning which tools are most appropriate for your quest for information.

4. Knowledge Informatics
Let’s come up w/ a definition for “Knowledge Informatics”

5. Navigating the Landscape
Discussion in preparation for the Practical session
What is your scientific research concern—what is your passion?
Do you think there is a great deal of information on your topic or very little?
Where should you search for reliable evidence-based information?
What do you mean by evidence?
Are there guidelines that you should follow?
Are you interested in securing funding?
How do you keep up with information?
How to you “discover” research?
Appreciate the landscape navigating to key information tools and services in support of research, including locating relevant funding resources
How much info . . .
If a great deal, can you find an area that had not been covered?
If very little, do you need to broaden (generalizability)
How many of you search PubMed? What do you know about PubMed?
What other questions do you have?
Discovery Tools – Research Gate

7. Create Accounts
My Bibliography

8. Dorice’s Research
Smoking Prevention among Adolescents in Ghana and Nigeria, specifically e-cigarettes
What questions do I need to ask?
Is this a potential threat that should be considered?
What is the incidence/prevalence of smoking among adolescents in these two countries?
Are there data sets that will help with my research?
What types of smoking do I need to consider besides e-cigarettes – waterpipes, vaping, hookah, etc. (Google and Google Scholar can help)

9. What do I do now?

10. My Thought Processes
You may stumble onto an article that prompts you to pursue a research topic. Your patient or community group may prompt you to address an issue.
What else might I search now that I have found the “gap”?

11. Google Scholar Bibliography Review
Publisher’s Sites --- many offer a limited amount of free text

12. ERIC: an education database
Free database
I did not search “smokeless tobacco”

13. Revised Search
#3 is great, review bibliography, find related/similar records
#3, Ghanaati – a person’s name

14. What Happens with Too Much Information?
Let’s start with hypertension and Ghana . . .

15. Where Research is Needed
What are the top issues that affect your country, your community?
What is being understudied?

17. National Institutes of Health - Funding
On Dec 16, 2015, at the request of Congress, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)—the largest source of medical funding in the world—officially released the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan, Fiscal Years 2016–2020: Turning Discovery Into Health. The plan is framed around NIH's mission of seeking and applying knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability in the context of future challenges and opportunities. It focuses on four essential, interdependent objectives: advancing opportunities in biomedical research in exploration of fundamental science, discovery of treatments and cures, and advancement of health promotion and disease prevention; fostering innovation by setting NIH priorities; enhancing scientific stewardship; and excelling as a federal science agency by managing results of scientific investments, outputs, training approaches and grant review process.
. . . the agency will strive to deliver by 2020, the application of precision medicine to improve survival for many thousands of cancer patients and the launch of clinical trials for a universal flu vaccine. The plan acknowledges that the NIH needs to capitalise upon recent advances in biomedical research to continue—and to accelerate—its efforts to translate scientific discoveries into better health.

18. Funding Landscape
Review ASSIST

19. NIH Reporter: How Not to Hurt Your Funding Chances

20. Mendeley
Mendeley
EndNote
Zotero
RefWorks
And more . . .