Reponses on Test Comparison Medical Journal Apps

End of last week (March 15th 2013) was the official kick-off of our test and trial period for 4 different Journal Apps. See our LibGuides page on E-Journals.

Comparison of (Medical) Journal Apps by Cmb Umcg

I will try and post all relevant comments and responses to the test trial and the apps below in this post.

In the end I want to create a kind of comparion chart/map/table and list a number of criteria. here are some criteria I am thinking off. If you have suggestions for additional criteria, please do not hesitate to contact me!

• Registration process
• User interface
• Performance
• Access to full text
• Pdf view + extra's
• Share options
• "Open In" other Apps
• Notifications
• Search options
• Platforms
• Support 

Some Responses

• Am I right that docwise and Read by QxMD do NOT have option to Open PDF in another Apps, like GoodReader?
  Answer docwise: will launch this approx. 2 months. Answer Read: It's on our Roadmap!

• How does this "Featured" Tab work in ReadbyQxMD?
  Answer Read: Over time, you will find that the Featured tab will become more and more personalized. The featured tab is populated by content that is algorithmically determined.  We use dozens of signals to figure out the content that you might otherwise be missing. For example, if you are a cardiologist and thousands of other cardiologists have been reading article X, we are more likely to include article X in your featured stream even if it's from a journal that you haven't subscribed to.
  
• I am missing Critical Care Medicine + American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care in BrowZine. can you add them for me?
  Answer BrowZine: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care is a Highwire journal, we'll be adding this very soon (probably within the next week).  Critical Care Medicine is a LLW title and we are still a ways out from supporting these journals (more than a month out).
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Comparing Journal Apps; February Update

Screenshot Docwise

Here is an update on the Comparing Journal Apps Post from February 4th 2013.
The plan is to arrange a trial and comparison period of 4 journal apps within the University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen.
Just talking and tweeting about it already had some nice feedback from patrons, but also some libraries are interested. It would be great to have more people doing the comparison in the same time.
Béfore we will start the actual trial period, we want all apps to be ready for our users to:

• be abled to register, because for all app you need to...
• Today (22.2.2013) the DocPhin registration is open for our Institution. Choose: Other: University Medical Center Groningen
• DocWise made the Netherlands (and other countries) available with currently two in there: UMCG and University Utrecht
• Read by QxMD has "Rijksuniversiteit Groningen" to use for proxy access
• have the fulltext access via our ezproxy installed or availabe for all 4 apps.
• use BrowZine (the only one covering ALL journal categories, not just MEDICAL) with our proxy and Holdings.

Flipboard-like (Medical)

• Docwise and Read (by QxMD) personalized "Flipboard" for medical journals, news and topics.
  Both these Apps have Settings for our library's proxy off-campus access.
• Docwise has updated the new version with new (read: outside US) countries like Australia, Germany, UK, France, Sweden and the Netherlands!
• available for iPad only
• fulltext via proxy settings; Choose Netherlands; UMCG
• free
• In Read: Choose Rijksuniversiteit Groningen for fulltext-access(reviews Docwise and Read)
• available for iPad and iPhone
• has push-notifications
• free

Start Pages-like (Medical)

• Docphin (22.2.2013: Just been activated to accept patrons from UMCG by email, we are cheking if proxy-settings are working). review Docphine
• available for Web, iPhone and Android. (iPad in preparation; Use Puffin Browser for best performance on iPad for now!)
• fulltext access via proxy settings. Choose "Other: University Medical Center Groningen.
• free
• 

Bookshelf-like (All Topics, including Medical)

• BrowZine (We are talking to them for a possible trial. This is the only App with a license-fee plan)
• available for iPad
• fulltext via proxy-settings ánd Holdings file
• covering ALL journal categories
• licensed
• review BrowZine

What do you think?

Reach Out to Research : library support services (R2R)

I had a great time in Tromsø for the 

ReachOut to Research (R2R)

Small seminar about library services supporting research and technology

I did two presentations of 1 hour on the Thursday for a large group of staff members of the University Library of Tromsø. On the Friday we did a roundtable session of almost 2 hours on various topics touched in the two talks. I created a special Scoop.it Topic to keep up to date on library support services for Research and called it  ReachOut to Research (R2R)

Reach Out to Research : library support services (R2R) from Guus van den Brekel

The user, the Technology & the Library (and why to go in between) from Guus van den Brekel

The EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries) 2013 workshop

Do you want to develop your own strategies to meet challenges facing research and health libraries? Do you want to participate in creative dialogue and gain new insights on key topics? Do you want to build your network amongst european collegues?

Then the EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries) 2013 workshop in the archipelago of Stockholm is for you!

The 2013 EAHIL Workshop will be hosted by the University Library at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, from June 12th - 14th. The biannual EAHIL Workshop will take a more participatory approach than traditionally seen at most conferences and workshops, without papers and posters. A range of methods will be used to stimulate dialogue around a topic allowing participants to gain insight and understanding. The key words that will permeate this workshop are interactive, innovative and inspiring.

Be prepared to leave your comfort zone!

Only 200 people can attend, so don’t wait too long to sign up! Please note that the price includes 2 nights at Vår Gård.
Read more at http://eahil2013.kib.ki.se/

Comparing (Medical) Journal Apps

There are a couple of great Apps available to read your preferred Journals, scan them and keep up to date on your tablet.
The CMB UMCG want to test a few of them more thoroughly in the next weeks.

Flipboard-like (Medical)

• Docwise & Read (by QxMD) personalized "Flipboard" for medical journals, news and topics.
  Both these Apps have Settings for our library's proxy off-campus access.
• In Docwise you choose: Alabama; University Medical Center Groningen
• In Read: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen(reviews Docwise & Read)

Start Pages-like (Medical)

• Docphin (unfortunately they are not responding to my requests to include our outside-US Institution, we can't test it. Update: They are willing to activate my institution, details sent, now we have to wait!)
• review Docphine
  

Bookshelf-like (All Topics, including Medical)

• BrowZine (We are talking to them for a possible trial. This is the only App with a license-fee plan)
• Finally reading Tables of Contents in a useful way?
• review BrowZine

What do you think?

RSS Feed Translation "Google Script"

I am working on the Twitter account of @ResearchUMCG and was asked to include the UMCG Press Releases. Unfortunately these Press Releases are only in Dutch for now. And the intension is to tweet in English ....
I found a very useful blog called Digital Inspiration explaining how to execute this translation automatically via Google Script.
Strangely enough I was not abled to see the script in Google Script at all in my preferred Chrome Browser (who's product is that again?)
Instructions were very clear and setting up the translation script was done in minutes. I used Twitter feed to deliver it to the Twitter account. I like Twitterfeed for the prefic etc. It takes a long time to load screens though .... Next time I will try DLVR.IT (anyone any experience?)
We feed the atUMCG publications also directly into this Twitter-account.