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Roy Tanck 's Flickr Widget requires Flash Player 9 or better. Get this widget at roytanck.com The IPC of the EAHIL2010 Conference did meet in Lisabon, Portugal on December 14-15th. On the agenda: abstract grading, presentation schedules, Continuing Education, poster sessions, venue exploration etc. The local programm committee did an enormous job preparing almost everything in a proposed agenda and conference schedule. It is amazing how much has to be done to run a conference of this size. While we were dining in Restaurant Valbom , close to our hotel Sana Executive , they were probably still preparing for our arrival on Monday morning. The meeting was hosted in the facilities of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian surrounded by a wonderful garden  Jardim Calouste Gulbenkian . After a little slow start on grading and discussing the large amount of abstracts for papers and posters (140+), we managed to finish them all at the end of the 1st day! It was an honour t...

NARCIS ,  the gateway to the Dutch Scientific information (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System)  has included a new repository: the repository of the NIVEL : the Dutch Institute for research of health care. It concerns about 2500 open access publications, that is 40% of the publications of NIVEL. "NARCIS provides access to 381,311 scientific publications ( 191,575 of which are open access publications), 8,930 data sets, and information on researchers (expertise), research projects and research institutes in the Netherlands"  It will be developed within the framework of SURFShare , in close cooperation with the Dutch universities and NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). 37 Repositories are now included in NARCIS .  MYCROFT SEARCH PLUGIN As of now a so-called NARCIS search plugin is available for the Internet Explorer and Firefox browser at the Mycroft Project page: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.ht...

The library organised a open meeting for staff of the UMCG on December 7th, focussed around the scientific database SCOPUS. The audience (53) -mainly researchers and a few clinicians, but also a couple of librarians of the Library of the University of Groningen . (we simply couldn't keep them out of the room :-)- were gathered in the so-called "Rode Zaal". Presenter was Chris James , Account Development Manager at Elsevier. In his first session he covered the basics of Scopus and tried to get some response from the audience. Some remarkable responses: "who is using Scopus?" : no hands. (Scopus became available at the University in the second part of 2008) "Web of Science" : no hands Comment: Clinical and medical research staff is using Pubmed heavily. Database choices and search habits are hard to influence and change takes time. We probably also got a relative "new" group of researchers. And still a lot of work to do as library in re...

A lot of useful information about the role social media is playing now related somehow to the (public) health. If you got no vision on social media versus health or health care, this is the presentation to watch. To tweet or not to tweet? : Exploring the use of Social Media for [public] health View more presentations from Francisco J Grajales III . Related articles by Zemanta Why don't the healthcare companies use social media? (startups.com) 5 Reasons Corporations are Failing at Social Media (rachelcarterpr.blogspot.com) How has Twitter improved your health? (medicineandtechnology.com) Healthcare Debate Explodes on Twitter (huffingtonpost.com)

It's a few weeks now since I  have launched the cmbUMCG twitter account (in Dutch). The reasons for this were: to start to focus more in Dutch on our target groups, to find out if they are out there tweeting too, and why to keep up with tweets about UMCG: staff, students, patients, and news flashes published by third parties to explore how to get parts of our content and services in there, without having to invest a lot of extra staff time for maintenance and updating to show that the library is using this channel too, to show ourselves and the UMCG. Creation of the account is pretty simple of course via Twitter . Be sure to find a nice logo and background. There are several sites that offer simple free templates for twitter backgrounds (i.e. http://www.twitbacks.com/ ), or you create your own . To get relevant content into your Twitter Library account you need: active library staff that tweet about news on any aspect of library services and resources. You can can also...

On some of our Public Pages, like CMB and EduCMB we placed several Link Modules to show links to content on the website of our library. The Link Module then displays a Thumbnail from that page/site. A few day ago suddenly the thumbnails for links within the www.rug.nl domain were replaced with little indecent pictures, clearly not coming from this university portal. Quick contact with Netvibes , resulted in quick action: they decided to block thumbnails for www.rug.nl at once, and investigate. My question to them : is the rug-site hijacked or the Thumbshots.org-site? The outcome is still unsure, they now noticed trouble with Thumbshots and Google Groups as well. They DID act quickly again in adjusting the Link Module: you now can turn the Thumbnail ON or OFF!. Related articles by Zemanta Partnership with Sage brings Netvibes to even more Enterprises (netvibes.com) The next Netvibes: Wasabi Edition (netvibes.com) Netvibes Powers T-Online.de, Germany's Largest Portal ...