title: When A. Rose is not A. Rose: the vagaries of author searching.
abstract: Creation of a faculty database is a challenging but worthwhile project. In 2002, librarians at the University of Missouri-Columbia were approached by the School of Medicine to create a database of faculty publications. This article outlines the project and gives special emphasis to the problems of author searching. Discussion items include author searching syntax and providing ideas for how to determine if a publication was written by a particular author.
authors.affiliation: Information Services Department, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, 1 Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65212, USA. ScovilleC@health.Missouri.edu
authors.forename: Caryn L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Scoville
authors.forename: E Diane
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Amanda L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: McConnell
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008923:Missouri; D009275:Names; D011642:Publications; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013997:Time Factors