DigiCMB

Gert Meijdam, founder and owner of the business information company STIPP , Deventer, became the  Information Professional of the Year in 2010 , judged by  a four-member professional jury.   The prize this year has been issued for the fifth time, is set by Prissma , the largest division of NVB (Dutch society for professionals in the Library, Information and Knowledge Sector). Meijdam is founder and director-owner of the Deventer-based information company  STIPP , he has managed to build an established name in the information world of profit (publishers, businesses) and nonprofit (public institutions, libraries, etc.). (rea d more about Gert here in a Google -translate version of the official text) The second prize was won by me! The "EBSCO Publieksprijs" as part of the election of the Information Professional of the Year 2010 This year for the second time the Audience award, a check for 1,000 euros sponsored by EBSCO Information Services . Internet peers ...

For me it wasn't  difficult to decide the work on a Toolbar for Webicina , which I believe to be -at this point- the best & most up to date Medical web 2.0 collection of resources, blogs and tools around for Medical Professionals and Empowered Patients.   And together with PeRSSonalized Medicine - a free, easy-to-use aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place. -  it perfectly merges into a very usefull tool to keep up for many people. Berci now added the link to the Webicina Toolbar on both pages at the right side. Webicina's content: For Medical Professionals: 19 Specialities Sexual Health and Web 2.0   Anesthesiology and Web 2.0 Cardiology and Web 2.0 Dentistry and Web 2.0 Dermatology and Web 2.0 Emergency Medicine and Web 2.0 Genetics and Web 2.0 Neurology and Web 2.0 ...

How open are Medical Library Conferences? How easy is it to get the material discussed or presented there? And is it supposed to be available all the time and for free? In this age of Open Acess, web 2.0 and the expectancy of the "users" -being us librarians, spoiled with Google:-) one would assume that much(if not all) is freely available via Conferences websites and/or social media. Why then do I find it hard to find the extra info about those events, including papers and slides and possibly even webcasts? Are we still not into the share-mode and overprotective to one's own achievements, or is it a genetic defect just being too modest as a librarian, satisfied with a quiet role in the background? Please anyone, fill my gaps of knowledge in this. Is it ignorance by me, or is there a real issue? Hiding content behind a registration I cán understand, but it is missing the actual elementary necessity of trying to keep all medical librarians up to date in their struggle...

In a recent email it was explained that NARCIS, National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System now offers RSS-feeds for search results, or even a widget you can embed in your website or blog I think it is interesting to keep up what is entered into NARCIS by or about the UMCG. So the search "universitair medisch centrum groningen" OR UMCG ", gave me 101 results divided in 6 tab-results Every set of results can be saved as RSS feed, embedded or added to your Favourites, EXCEPT the "ALL Sources". I tried to merge these 5 rss-feeds into one via Pipes.Yahoo.com  and it seemed to work. You can see the result on the UMCG Web Presence Scan Public Page ; Publications Tab

Tomorrow in the Traverse room (CMC.Z3) in the UMCG a demo session of Primal Pictures  ( access for RUG&UMCG ) is organised by the Central Medical Library with help of Wolters Kluwer Health (with thanks to  Connie Munsters   Regional Sales Manager Benelux,  Eastern Mediterranean, Southern Africa,  Medical Research,  Ovid Technologies B.V.) The demo will be delivered by Mike Smith  of Primal Pictures. Some info: Primal Pictures compared to other anatomy products:         -          Primal Pictures model is made using high resolution MRI scans of real cadavers  (not based on drawings) -      U sers have several ways of navigating the models. They can rotate in 3 dimensions whilst adding and subtracting structures. They can move through the model in Axial, Saggital and Coronal slices whilst at the same time comparing the images to MRI ...