Will the Pandemic Change How Researchers Keep Up With the Literature?. Issue 4 (2nd October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Laynor, Gregory
• Is Part Of: Journal of electronic resources in medical libraries. Volume 19:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 138
• Page End: 142
• Publication Date: 2022-10-02
• Subjects: COVID-19 -- information overload -- literature searching -- text mining; Medical libraries -- Collection development -- Periodicals; Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic information resources -- Periodicals; Acquisition of electronic information resources -- Periodicals; 025.2761
• DOI: 10.1080/15424065.2022.2150355
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1542-4065

Abstract

Abstract: The flood of publications during the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenge of information overload. The pandemic heightened the need for technologies that can assist researchers in keeping up with the literature. Approaches to organizing the COVID-19 literature included curation of specialized databases, aggregation of articles into a repository of machine-readable data, and application of text mining to the literature search process. Technologies developed for keeping up with the COVID-19 literature may have potential for improving in general the ability of researchers to keep up with the literature.