Work Type
Presentation
Publication Date
2011
Name of Conference
2011 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language
English
Document Type
Presentation Poster
Recommended Citation
Tennant, Michele R.; Sarli, Cathy C.; and Holmes, Kristi L., "Enhancing library services: utilizing bibliographic databases for social network analysis." 2011 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2011. Paper 19.
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/becker_pubs/19
Description
Networks can describe many different types of relationships and interactions. Networks are often used in the sciences to describe everything from disease transmission to brain networks, cell signalling events and dependencies, and gene cascades. More and more everyday social relationships are described in terms of networks, including relationships on social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn and on the microblogging platform, Twitter. The relatively recent empasis in academic circles to focus upon researcher networking platforms and features to promote discovery and collaboration has also highlighted co-author and co-investigator networks in platforms.