DigiCMB

Remarkably interesting book (free fulltext) with numerous good articles about the new learning and consequences for Educational organizations and Libraries. Read this and you will know what has to change (or should have been changed already) If Educational organization's do not react, they risk failure of their programs to achieve end-goals. If Libraries do not react, they risk being replaced completely by other (commercial) information providers, and in the end maybe even their meaning of existence. Students are the medical specialists, clinicians, researchers of the future, you need them to be on your side, or better they need the best medical information there is, you have to deliver it to them, "in the place where they live" , the Net.... While preparing a paper on the subject of the changing needs of the medical students en staff concerning library services I also came across a new Dutch Report "Leren van Jongeren" (Learning of Youth) van SURF

Must read: Special Issue on Searching and Mining Literature Digital Libraries of the "Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering" Most interesting perhaps is a new study on the IMPACT OF OPEN ACCESS: Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact by Chawki Hajjem, Stevan Harnad, Yves Gingras See the BOLD spots for remarkable info in the abstract! Abstract In 2001, Lawrence found that articles in computer science that were openly accessible (OA) on the Web were cited substantially more than those that were not. We have since replicated this effect in physics. To further test its cross-disciplinary generality, we used 1,307,038 articles published across 12 years (1992-2003) in 10 disciplines (Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Health, Political Science, Economics, Education, Law, Business, Management). We designed a robot that trawls the Web for full-texts using reference metadata (author, title,...

ACCESS2005 keeps revealing nice stuff. I have been scrolling some presentations again and ran into the MonkeyWrenching talk from Ross Singer again. He mentiones the good things you can do with good old Javascript and gives an example of integration with a METALIB3 (ExLibris) installation, with the Citation Linker to be precise. While filling in the words from a journal title, a menu appears with the available journals containing that words! I am sure we want this as well in our METALIB installation called RUGCOMBINE !

Again picked from the Krafty Librarian : UpToDate Interview in Journal of Electronic Resources for Medical Libraries : An Interview with Denise Basow and Fritz Hofheinz of UpToDate Elizabeth Connor MLS, AHIP, Assistant Professor, Daniel Library, The Citadel, Charleston, SC, 29407, elizabeth.connor@citadel.edu Electronic Resources for Medical Libraries v. 2 (4) 81-92 2005. We seem to have a subscription but currently no fulltext access. Could anybody send me a copy via mail? Abstract: This interview provides insights into the products and services offered by UpToDate, a leading source of clinical information. Topics discussed include UpToDate's topic reviews, consumer health information, peer-reviewed content, handheld devices, pricing models, future trends, and predictions. Also interesting for (medical) librarians is: An Interview with Tony McSean, Director of Library Relations, Elsevier Science Abstract: This interview provides insights into the products and services offer...

Picked from the Krafty Librarian Blog: "The first Google Newsletter for Librarians was published (Dec 2005) . "This newsletter was conceived at the 2005 ALA conference in Chicago , where Google hosted a booth in the exhibit hall. We spent three days chatting with librarians about Google: what you liked, what you didn't like, and where you saw opportunities to work together to help people find useful, relevant information." Future issues will feature articles contributed by librarians and library supporters, links to library-related web sites, and updates on Google products and services that can help you in your work..... Google invites librarians to send in their Google thoughts, questions, article suggestions and stories of how librarians use and keep up with technology on the job."

The QuickSearch CMB Library Toolbar is now available since November 1st 2005 on 4 different ways: IE installation within standard student network of the University, section Medicine. Available in Library Services. Windows XP with NAL IE installation within standard staff network of the UMCG (former Faculty of Medicine). Available in Library Services. Windows XP with NAL IE Download from website for use OUTSIDE student or staff network FireFox download from website for use OUTSIDE student or staff network Monitoring the number of installations and active users via option 3. & 4. is available via the admin account of EffectiveBrand. Monitoring of the rest has started later and no data is available from that at this moment. Last week the number of downloads has reached the 200 , active users rise to a concurrent max of 70 per day, and the total amount of searches since the start is 4928. The number of available resources for searching is still increasing, as is the total amount of e-...

It looks like finally -after months of promising publication- that Faculty of 1000 MEDICINE will be available in January 2006! You can take a peek at a preview version: http://www.f1000medicine.com/browse/ What is it? "Faculty of 1000 Medicine is the next-generation literature evaluation and awareness service for medicine. Based on the recommendations of a selected faculty of nearly 2500 leading, international researchers and clinicians, it will systematically highlight and review the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine." The BIOLOGY F1000 has been rather successful.

Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005) summarizes findings of an international study on information-seeking habits and preferences. The Perceptions report provides the findings and responses from the online survey in an effort to learn more about: Library useAwareness and use of library electronic resources The Internet search engine, the library and the librarian Free vs. for-fee information The "Library" brand The report is available here .

TIP 1 : While writing my resume of MEDNET 2005 I did several searches for AUTHORS in GOOGLE SCHOLAR. The best way to do this is like this: instead of using one author operator, use TWO, like this "author:G. Author:Eysenbach" The " " are really needed! of course you can type in the first name anyway you want, but with just the initial the result looks best. -------------------------------------- TIP 2 : If you want to see if YOUR LIBRARY has a PRINT OR FULLTEXT version of the publication available, please do use the option " Scholar Preferences " At Library Links you can search for your Library. Choose the Library you want and from that moment on the Library Holdings will appear with your search results! For instance: Type in "Groningen" and click FIND LIBRARY and you will find the University Library of Groningen, RUGLINKS. Select the Library and you will see RUGLINKS at publication that Groningen has available, print or fulltext online! H...

Digest So much to do ... I went to Prague with the believe that I could publish a new item on this blog everyday. And I started well....But as the conference started it just slipped. It is not that the subjects were not relevant or any good. No, as I am a curious guy I got too much ideas and impressions. If you put that together with the fact that I met a couple of really nice people, it is not so strange I start writing now again. I am busy with digesting the information, making it ready to present to my colleagues, to spread it within the University Medical Hospital Groningen. Furthermore I am going to exchange some things I promised during the conference. Exchange And the first thing is to exchange information about "Impact factors" to Orsi Meckl. We got talking about the subject after the keynote talk from Guenther Eysenbach and she wanted to know more. Just that evening I read about a brand new articles was written about it and published and the same day the following...

Some say (mostly Zorba) we should skip all the keynotes, talks, presentations, plenary or parallel and just focus on getting on socially in bars, pubs, restaurants talking to eachother about subjects we care about; the profession, the company, the patient, the doctor, the student or more personally; the family, relationships, friends, the society, the country and even politics (but not too long). And it is true, in that surrounding you talk more freely then in the conference room! And it is not (only) the alcohol that is bridging the gaps. Sunday evening I was having dinner with 2 Greek men and 1 Greek woman, an Hungarian woman, an Korean man and a German woman. Together with a Dutch guy this is a strange mix, but the conversation was lively. The topic jumped from cultural differences in practicing health care by general physicians to the appearences & local habits of Sinterklaas (SantaClaus) in various countries. Tonight it was a combination of 3 Hungarians, a German and a Dutc...

One dot for one presentation, dots are not pinned in region or town, just in the correct country. (Click on the map and EXPAND the image to normal format.) It's just an impression.

The keynote talk of MEDNET 2005 was a presentation of Gunther Eysenbach, Associate Professor Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; and Senior Scientist, Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research. He conducted a decent research to find out if articles published in Open Access are more likely to be cited (more often and earlier) then non-OA articles. In a very clear way, although with a little basic statistics, he explained his research method and the results. Taking into account every possible factor that can be significantly important, the results show that there is a difference in favour of the OA articles. The talk was explenatory about the difference between the GOLD way and the GREEN way. In his opinion the research conducted by the OPCIT Project is mainly focussed on the GREEN way (the so-called "back-door") and he wanted to show independantly that the GOLD way is the " better" one. The research wil...

From the preface of Hans van der Slikke (SIM Chair): Society for the Internet in Medicine This year the MedNet congress has four tracks, of which every track has its own motto: 1. Internet for Informaticians and Clinicians – “Towards the new web technologies” – Shared information in patient care and follow up – Healthcare quality and standards – Internet in health management and administration 2. Internet for Teachers – “Towards effective use of new e-learning tools” – Knowledge maps – the modern ways of lectures preparation – Practical experiences with virtual medical schools – Internet in continuing medical education 3. Internet for Librarians – “Towards the new roles of medical libraries” – Web mediated evidence based information and multicentre medical research – E-publishing – the problems and special questions – The evidence of national web resources and Information retrieval technology 4. Internet for Web providers – “Towards the new ways in web presentation” – Quality of web...

I just arrived in a snowy Prague to experience the 10th World Congress of Internet in Medicine, MEDNET 2005. What can we -librarians, information specialists, cybrarians or what ever you call yourself - learn from this group of medical specialists or medical staff in general? It is my intension to see what they are using, what they need, what they are working on in connection with our library services and resources. How can we get our services and resources into the user environment , at the place where he/she needs it, at the right time, in the right form?