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Medical Apps Daily : Paper.li your daily or weekly Newspaper based on Twitter & facebook

See it and subscribe Paper.li    organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook into an easy to read newspaper-style format. This sounds like it combines twitter AND facebook news, but it doesn't. You can create Newspapers based on: your twitteraccount  The newspaper will be created using all the links (articles) shared in the past 24 hours(or within a week)  by yourself (editor in chief) AND the people you follow (contributors a twitter tag a twitter list  on a search of all public posts on facebook or a custom paper You can query Twitter with a more complex search term than just a #tag (e.g. find all the tweets that talk about climate AND carbon but NOT solar = climate carbon -solar). You can also restrict the Twitter users that can contribute content to the paper by specifying a Twitter list. They promise that more features are on the way... Medical Apps Daily is focussed on a twitter search:   (medical OR medicine OR health OR e-hea...

Cloud Discovery & Licenced Library Databases Integration via WebMynd

Cloud Discovery & Licenced Library Databases Integration  in Google, Bing, Yahoo & YoouTube via WebMynd Sidebars.   Test : WebMynd Sidebar , browser Plugin for Chrome, Firefox & IE Why : Because You are working ALL DAY in your browser, AND you use Google Search constantly. Plus: I am intruigued by browser extensions, add-ons, plugins etc and their applied use in searching and showing Library resources. What does it do? Any search in Google, Yahoo, Bing or Youtube activates a sidebar & Shows you results from your pre-set or configurated custom search engines and web resources in a browser sidebar Library resouces : PubMed, UpToDate, PiCarta, AccessMedicine, Scopus (proxy-enabled, so only for residents) Consumer health : MedlinePLus, FDA, MAyoClinic Extra: Webicina , ZB MED (MedPilot, GreenPilot), Europeana Pre-set resources available: very broad scope, Google Scholar, Docs, Books, scribd, Twitter, Youtube, wikipedia, Facebook, Link...

MedLibMob : Medical Apps & Mobile Medical Libraries

Join  MedLibMob Community Facebook Fan Page: *   http://www.facebook.com/pages/MedLibMob/173310729366445     or the  The MedLibMob Group: *   http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_174021102617943   As we are busy in our library ( Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen , The Netherlands) with an iPad on Loan Project, ánd working on a new mobile library site, I suddenly thought how easy it would be to have community of medical librarians & libraries to: exchange information and experiences with (creating) mobile medical library sites and/or apps. create listings of existing and future content providers supporting mobile devices share knowledge about and review the fast growing range of Medical Apps for mobile devices on any relevant platforms (iPhone, iPads, Android, etc...) This new Facebook group has CHAT features (till we reach >250 members), post, links, photo's, videos, events. To connect sever...

GERMAN NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ZB MED : Knowledge for Life

Love padlocks bridge in Cologne with the Dom This week I was in Cologne, Germany in the German National Library of Medicine, the ZB MED , the second largest medical library of the world.  The "ZB MED is the Federal Republic of Germany's central specialist library of medicine, health, nutrition, the environment, and agriculture, and was f ounded in 1969.  I was asked to perform a consultation t ogether with team leaders and the director Ulrich Korwitz. We did spend almost a whole day discussing their new Strategic plans for 2010-2012, including marketing  and PR. The slides of my morning session are available here . The ZB Med has developed a wide range of interesting quality resources and services over the years. the Document delivery service The MEDPILOT : unique medical information portal and search engine using semantic techniques which enables multiple languages as input and quality matching with key concepts, facetting, combined with ordering service ...