More good suggestions--thank you.
Just a thought, you could use the location code (LOC) instead of collection code for the hospital. This is one of those instances where talking to a few potential end users might help you understand what types of information they want, and how they would like to be able to search, subdivide, or otherwise organize it.
LOC is a good idea, and we'll definitely be talking to end-users about what they want. Our primary goal is to make the information widely available, and to assist in making it easy for an author or department to generate a quick list of publications to demonstrate the kind of scholarly research they're doing.
I don't know what your IT support is like, but our computer wizard set the background color of our test site to pepto bismol pink so we would know instantly if we were working in test or production. You might want to do something (perhaps more subtle) so it is visually obvious that the two sites are not the same.
Good idea! When it comes to Linux, I'm our IT support (the hospital uses XP, changing to Win7 sometime soon), but it gives me a new puzzle to work on. (Yes, I'm still an Ubuntu novice, but I'm learning fast.)
Or. . . I wonder if an online reference manager like Zotero would be an alternative. [snip]
We looked into Zotero and wasn't impressed. This was a while ago, and things may have changed. One big drawback is teaching our users how to use it. We're hoping that something that looks like a library catalog will be easier for them to learn. Our doctors and nurses are brilliant people, but they have a lot on their minds. Cheers, Fred King kohauser@phred.us