[Libs-Or] Announcing Launch of ResearchRaven: A Free Search Platform for Publishing and Networking Opportunities in the Health Sciences

[hleman at samhealth.org]

Dear Fellow Members of the Oregon Library Community:

I would like to announce the official launch of a free Web service for researchers and scholars in the health sciences I have been helping to develop, ResearchRaven:

http://www.researchraven.com/.

ResearchRaven is a free service of the Samaritan Health Services Center for Health Research and Quality. The purpose of ResearchRaven enable users to efficiently find current information about professional conferences, calls for papers for publications and for papers for presentations at professional meetings, and other research-related materials. ResearchRaven also includes Leman’s Lexicon, a tongue-in-cheek guide to the latest buzzwords in science and medicine.

Like our existing scholarship, fellowship, grant and science prize listing service, ScanGrants:

http://www.scangrants.com/

users can subscribe for free via RSS or email to either all the listings entered that day in whatever category was updated that day or they can choose to subscribe to only those categories that most interest them (public health, nursing research, psychiatry, drug development, etc.).

ResearchRaven covers the gamut of scholarship in the health and medical fields from the health-related social sciences to basic science such as biochemistry. Our hope is to enable researchers to keep abreast of publishing opportunities and of meetings they would not otherwise have heard of and might wish to simply attend or to present papers at.

One thing I hope to do is list items of interest to those in the information sciences and librarianship about calls for papers and notices of meetings about data sharing and collaboration, scientific communication, big data, information science and so on.

I would be very grateful if you would take a look a ResearchRaven and, if you like what you see, to apprise your staff and faculty members about it. I am fairly sure there is no comparable free service in health and medicine.

Thank you for your help.

Hope Leman, MLIS
Research Information Technologist
Center for Health Research and Quality
Samaritan Health Services
815 NW 9th Street Suite 203A
Corvallis OR 97330
Telephone (541) 768-5712
hleman at samhealth.org
http://www.scangrants.com/
http://www.researchraven.com/

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