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Current Awareness Service -Royal College of Surgeons
of England
Implementing and developing a service
Tom Macmillan – Information Services Librarian
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Overview• Background about the RCS
• Overview of the Current Awareness Service
• Challenges to overcome
• Ways to evaluate and improve
• The email marketing approach
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Background• The College is a membership organisation of around 20,000 surgeons worldwide
• Library provides information needs for surgeons particularly through online journals
• Surgeons must keep up to date with clinical and professional standards and research
• Vast amounts of medical research published every month
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Current Awareness Service (1/2)• The bulletins were
implemented in response to members’ requests
• Tailored for individual surgical specialties
• Delivered as an email using Campaignmaster email marketing software
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Current Awareness Service (2/2)
Specialist Advisory Panel give advice in setting up new bulletins. They advise on:
• Sub-specialties to include e.g. Paediatric craniofacial surgery for Plastic surgeons
• Publications to consult and study types and topics to include
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• Systematically hand search each journal every month
• Identify likely articles by titles and abstracts
• Critically appraise before including in bulletin
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Hand search the latest issues of between 50 and 80 journal titles as well as other sources
Summarise the methodology and results
Provide links to the journals we subscribe to along with a link to the relevant help pages on our website
Current Awareness Bulletins (1/2)
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The bulletins are overseen by a Specialist Advisory Panel of clinicians
• Compiled using an HTML email editor
• Sent to all members who have registered an interest in that surgical specialty. For example, Urology was sent to 711 members last month
Current Awareness Bulletins (2/2)
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Screenshot of the entire bulletin (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, May 2014)
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The bulletinTOC of one journal(Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vol.133, Iss.6)
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BulletinJournal TOC
37 Plastic surgery titles plus 44 general medical and surgical titles
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• Getting to know the subject
• Keeping the bulletins comprehensive but concise
• Technical issues with HTML editor
• Keeping interest levels up – avoiding negative reactions from email overload
Challenges to overcome
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Email marketing approach (1/2)• The key measures in email marketing are click-through
rates and open rates
• Open rates signify interest
• Click-through rates signify engagement
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Email marketing approach (2/2)• Accessibility – ensuring the bulletin looks the same in
all email clients
• Test beforehand with different email accounts and different devices
• Outcomes – make it as inviting and easy as possible to use the bulletin
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Evaluation (1/4)• Campaignmaster allows for detailed statistical analysis
– all links are tracked
We can see which articles are getting the most clicks, and who is clicking
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• E-journal access has significantly increased
Evaluation (2/4)
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• We can see emergent themes about which topics are most ‘in-demand’
wordle.net/create
Evaluation (3/4)
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• Text analysis helps reveal dominant themes too
textalyser.net
• Getting to know the subject by reading editorials in the prestigious journals is also a good way to gauge the contemporary issues in a subject
• Collaboration and feedback
Evaluation (4/4)
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Developments to come (1/2)
• We ran a survey to get qualitative feedback
• Members were very positive about the bulletins, but negative about e-journal access
• Members called for more bulletins to cover other surgical specialties. This is what we are now working towards.
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• Collaboration: We are exploring ways in which Members could identify and assess content for the bulletins
• Engaging with users is very important and can help contribute to their CPD portfolios
Developments to come (2/2)
• Evaluating the bulletins’ impact on clinical practice
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Review• RCS is a large membership organisation with a
remote user-base with specific information needs
• The Current Awareness Service helps surgeons get to the information they need in a quick and efficient way
• The email marketing approach is one way to try and overcome some challenges
• There are always things to improve on