About the Faculty Bibliography

• What is the Faculty Bibliography?   The NYU School of Medicine Faculty Bibliography is a service of the Ehrman Digital Library which is the electronic arm of the Ehrman Medical Library. The purpose of the Bibliography is to gather citations to publications of NYU School of Medicine faculty into a single easy to use database. Besides providing a convenient overview of faculty publications, the Bibliography is part of the School of Medicine's online faculty research tracking system, which includes three mutually supporting online databases:
  • The Faculty Resource Catalog .  The FRC is a structured, controlled vocabulary database of basic faculty information and research interests, based on analysis of actual published work, grants and research. The FRC is the School of Medicine's gateway to national research databases such as the Community of Science. The FRC tracks all faculty of the rank of assistant professor or higher.

  • The Faculty Biosketch pages .  The Biosketch pages are a place for faculty to to describe their research and clinical interests in their own words. For more information, read How to contribute to the Medical Center's WWW Project.

  • The Faculty Bibliography.  The subject of this FAQ. Like the FRC, the Faculty Bibliography tracks publications of all faculty of the rank of assistant professor or higher.

  
• What's included?   The Faculty Bibliography endeavors to include all published articles, chapters, and books written by eligible faculty. It does not include "preprint", "in press", "submitted", or "accepted" publications. For inclusion, the faculty member must be named as an author in the publication. At present the Bibliography contains only publications in traditional media; web sites and similar publishing may be incorporated at a later date.
  
• Where do the citations come from?   Citations are gathered from various online databases, most prominently Medline and MEDCat (the Library's online catalog). Citations also come from Biological Abstracts, EMBASE, Web of Science, and PsychInfo  and other databases. Medline, PyschInfo, and other databases are available to NYU faculty, staff, and students through OVID. Most non-OVID databases can be accessed via the Ehrman Medical Library's homepage.

  The Bibliography also contains citations to published work that do not appear in online databases, but which have been identified and suggested by faculty themselves and verified by the Library.

  
• Some of my publications are missing. How can I get them added?   Unfortunately, it's impossible for us to catch and include every faculty publication as soon as it appears in print. Among other things, there is always a time lag between publication and inclusion in online citation databases.

  The Library always welcomes submissions and corrections from the faculty. You may drop off citations at the Library Information Desk or you may use the School of Medicine's MyInfo tool.

  In the case of very recent publications the Bibliography can be supplemented by searching under the author's name in the National Library of Medicine's "Pre-Medline" database. There is a link to this database on the results page of a Bibliography author search that retrieves publications added to "Pre-Medline" during the last 90 days.

  
• Some of the publications listed under my name are not mine. How can I get them removed?   Matching faculty names against published citations is at best an inexact science. Please let us know about any problems of this nature you encounter. The Library always welcomes corrections from the faculty. You may drop off corrections at the Library Information Desk or you may use the School of Medicine's MyInfo tool.
  
• What are "Selected Papers"?   Faculty may choose to have all their publications or selected papers appear on their Biosketch page. The default is to include all publications. A faculty member may choose to show only a subset of her publications by having them marked as "selected papers." Library strongly urges that faculty limit themselves to no more than 5 "selected papers."
  
• Can I get statistical data from the Faculty Bibliography?   Yes. A general report is available. If you have a specific statistical question that you need answered, please contact the Faculty Bibliography Administrator to discuss the possibility of a customized statistical report.
  
• Warning! Incomplete data!   Statistics derived from the Faculty Bibliography are only as good as the underlying data. At present the Bibliography is definitely incomplete. Some faculty have quite complete listings while others have few or none of their publications included. When using the Bibliography for statistical or other comparisons, please bear in mind that actual data may not be valid for all comparisons.

  The Library's objective is a truly comprehensive bibliography. We are continually working to add citations and otherwise improve the data and its usability. We encourage all faculty and departments to make every effort to ensure that they are fully and fairly represented in the Bibliography. The best way to do this at present is to have individual faculty review their bibliographies and submit additions and corrections via the School of Medicine's MyInfo tool.

  
• I have more questions, whom should I contact?   Please direct all questions relating to the Faculty Bibliography to the Faculty Bibliography Administrator via email at the address: facbib@library.med.nyu.edu . If email is not convenient, please call Dorice Vieira at 212.263.7849.