DigiCMB

The theme of this Round is: Emerging Technology in Medical and Health Information . Due to a very low amount of submissions I feel obliged to write some post around the theme and the few submitted contributions. I asked the colleagues specifically out there to post on the theme ánd comment on my Continuing Education Course (CEC) at EAHIl 2010 that was totally focussed on this theme, and help me that way keeping this public course up to date at : http://www.netvibes.com/emergingtechnologiesinlibraries . The course touched emerging technology issues relevant for academic and medical libraries & librarians. Is it the holidays? Do they not read my blog at all? :-) Is it too far from everybodies daily work? Too vague or abstract? I have been alerting for submissions on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin, but maybe it is just bad timing. You'll get a second chance ... (read the end of the post now) For me this year, and a part of 2009 has been focussed on this topic, but not...

Here are some recent stats about the usage of the PubMed Toolbar  (875 downloads) in order of popularity: Search (direct search in all PubMed search tool): 44.16% Main Menu: 22.01% Messages: 4.26% News: 4.26% Other: 4.23% Using PubMed: 4.07% "Alt PubMeds": 4.02% The number of daily users is still rising slowly. At the end of August 123 users at trhe same time was the higest use so far. This means 123 users had this PubMed Toolbar open in their browser and actually used it! Don't want to use this Toolbar? Try The PubMed search widget:   1,961 installs Or the MedlinePlus search Widget, 2,819 installs Or The NLM Search Solutions Widget, 127 installs All these widgets can be added to YOUR favourite platform. Read the following Post to do MORE with your Toolbars: 37 ways To Adjust Your NLM Toolbar (or any Conduit Toolbar) Try also the NLM Toolbar! (This post is also published on the Blog about All NLM Toolbars )

Here's is a quick overview of Dutch Universities and their Linkout Collections in Pubmed: With activated Linkout with XML: ERASMUS  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&db=PubMed&orig_db=PubMed&term=loprovinleurlib[SB ]  RUG /CMB UMCG  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&db=PubMed&orig_db=PubMed&term=loprovinlugrmlib[SB ]  Wageningen  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&db=pubmed&orig_db=PubMed&term=loprovinlwurlib%5BSB%5D Maastricht  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&db=pubmed&orig_db=PubMed&term=loprovinlmaulib[SB ] Leiden http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&db=pubmed&orig_db=PubMed&term=loprovinllumlib%5BSB%5D Not (yet) activated Linkout via XML: Utrecht http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dopt=DocSum&...

The Central Medical Library offers a link-resolver ( Outside Tool )in Pubmed (called RUGLInks ), as well as a filter option (Linkout), to easily discover what content exactly is full-text available to our patrons. This is integrated and available in two ways: by direct link to PubMed with MYNCBI-share :  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?myncbishare=CMB&otool=inlugrmlib (This activates an clickable ICON (linkresolver) visible at any record viewed in detail, and it shows (in a clickable selection -filter-) what part of the search results is avaliable in full-text based on the library's licencing policy. via MyNCBI Preferences ,   via  filtering   search results,  and setting   LinkOut   and   outside tool   preferences. (Patrons can activate their preferred Outside tool, as well as set a filter to show  what part of the search results is avaliable in full-text based on the library's licencing policy.) While worki...

The EAHIL2009 Workshop in Dublin had as motto : "Working with others: explore, engage, extend" While having drinks with Louise Farragher after the closing of the successful Workshop in Dublin, we talked about using the recordings that were taken of the Opening Session . At that time I still had the idea that there were also video-recordings, but it turned out to be "just" audio. Wouldn't it be great to be abled to listen to the actual voice and speech while seeing the slides and/or pictures of presentations afterwards? For all kinds of reasons, we did not get to really making it work. But now I finally got to it. With the use of Audacity , a  free, open source software for recording and editing sounds, Powerpoint and Slideshare's Slidecast functionality, I created the first 3 Parts of the EAHIL 2009 Opening session and published them via the EAHIL2009 Slideshare account . The pictures used were taken from the Flickr EAHIL2009 Group Pool  . If anyone o...

This is a call on all Health and Medical Information specialist worldwide to submit one or more of your blog posts to the nexts months  MedLibs Blog Carnaval Round  2.8 which will be up at this blog ! The theme of this Round will be: Emerging Technology in Medical and Health Information . You can already start submitting to the next edition (just sign in and enter the URL of your post) at the submission form  here . Y ou can submit any post as long as it is of good quality and pertains to medical and/or health information. I had the pleasure and honour to give a Continuing Education Course (CEC) at EAHIl 2010 on this theme, and am trying to keep the public course up to date at : http://www.netvibes.com/emergingtechnologiesinlibraries The course touched emerging technology issues relevant for academic and medical libraries & librarians. You will find already a lot of information on certain topics, and a few books I can recommend, but it would be great to hea...