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 Today the url of the preview for new Pubmed design came out: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Enough changes to be very interesting, and to be added as search to the Pubmed Toolbar: http://pubmed.ourtoolbar.com (re-post from NLM Toolbars ) Related articles by Zemanta Search Engines, Genomics, Medical Literature: Tag Clouds come to PubMed via LigerCat (creakysites.wordpress.com) Information Overload, the Index Medicus, and PubMed (efficientmd.blogspot.com)

emtacl10 — emerging technologies in academic libraries International conference on emerging technologies in academic libraries 2010 26–28 April 2010, Trondheim, Norway http://www.emtacl.com/ Call for papers The Programm committee would like to remind you that the deadline for submitting abstracts is Thursday 15 October. We are also happy to announce Lorcan Dempsey as opening keynote speaker at the conference. Lorcan is Vice President and Chief Strategist of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), and needs no further introduction. Emerging technologies and evolving user behaviour change the rules of the game for academic libraries. Emerging technologies include new ways of using existing technologies and totally new, disruptive technologies. Abstract submission instructions: Please use the submission form at https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=emtacl10 Emtacl NTNU Library (emtacl) on Twitter Emtacl Facebook YouTube - emtacl's Channel

After a long period of relative silence on this blog I am trying to clear up at least the loose-ends ... and update the stuff out there, when time & energy permits. I had not posted my talk from Liber2009, almost 2 months ago. Have a look at the video’s of the conference on line: http://www.canalc2.tv/evenements.asp?idEvenement=481 More LIBER2009 presentations available from: http://liber2009.biu-toulouse.fr/presentations Do Libraries Meet Research 2.0 : collaborative tools and relevance for Research Libraries View more presentations from Guus van den Brekel .

Here is some extra info on the Continuing education courses and workshop for medical librarians held in St. Petersburg at the Library of Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies . Transfer of knowledge VIII: Providing and managing evidence based health information, June 16-18, 2009 The courses were made possible thanks to grants from SMH and the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services through the Cooperation Programme on Health and Related Social Issues in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. BMJ and Ovid have also sponsored this year's project. Presentations in pdf : Getting Clinical Evidence into Practice . BMJ Clinical Evidence and BMJ Best Practice. Steve Thorpe, BMJ The Role of Patient Information in Evidence Based Medicine . Eva Alopaeus SMIL Patient Information Database . Tiina Heino Free Medical Resources on the Internet (in Russian) . List Velta Poznaka Google Scholar – the good, the bad, and the ugly . Elisabeth Akre PubMed news. Astrid Müller The Trans...

June 16 (Tuesday) 1:30 pm SLT-2:15pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/ Virtual%20Ability/54/169/22/ Health Care New Media Marketing Conference: Connecting to Consumer's in Today's Healthcare Environment Second Life: The Key to Futuristic Communication and Patient Care Health Care Collaboration & Community in Virtual Worlds & Second Life Second only to the general concept of Web 2.0, virtual worlds are the source of more articles in PubMed than any other emerging social technology. Of the many virtual worlds, Second Life (a free, open source 3d virtual world platform) is the one with the strongest presence in health care communities, from patient groups and medical education to research and professional meetings. Second Life can enable health systems to create either public or secure private spaces for functions from patient education, outreach, staff training, remote meetings, or more. As with any social technology, understanding the context and norms of the online ...

The latest issue of the Journal of Eahil contains an article called : Working, Sharing, Communicating, Learning and Teaching with others : the use of Web 2.0 tools for EAHIL Council, Board and Members . The original proposal was written in Januari 2009 by Guus van den Brekel, Ronald van Dieën, Oliver Obst and put to the EAHIL Board in Februari. You can read the edited version for the JEAHIL just below in the first post of this blog. (It is showing a pdf version in a "social publishing tool" called Scribd ) This is what we finally are trying to achieve: "The proposal envisioned the following environment where appropriate social networking tools for EAHIL members and member organisations are introduced, explained and discussed to understand how useful some of these technologies can be in libraries. experiences and reviews of different tools are gathered and published. Aspects to enclose are local differences and trends between EAHIL countries, to learn what the ...