DigiCMB

After a trial-period -initiated by the Central Medical Library - the Libraries of the University of Groningen decided to keep access to this very useful so-called "Journal App" BrowZine for at least the next 12 months! BrowZine will be accessable for all staff and students of the UMCG ánd the RUG. After download of the App ( iPad   | Android ): Staff of the University Medical Center Groningen can simply login with their  CMB Proxy account! Staff and students of the University of Groningen can simpy login with their P- or S-number.   BrowZine  is an App for managing YOUR individual choice of academic journals to keep up with. It offers a new way of monitoring and reading scholarly journals across all disciplines, connected to your library's subscription, with seamless access to the fulltext, plus offline reading. BrowZine is available for iPad and Android . BrowZine, now also for Android from Centrale Medische Bibliotheek, Universitair ...

How to get people to download your brand new Journal app for the Library? Besides putting out Download banners on your website or blog, you can use a smart App Banner for IOS Applications that appears when users on iPad or iPhone visit your Blog or Website via the mobile Safari browser. I first read about this at the BrowZine Marketing Tools for Libraries page I tried it on this Blog and on atUMCG, the blog about all UMCG scientific publications . There are plugins for this in WordPress , but all you need to do is to add a little single string of code in the Header section of the blog or website. Here are the strings for BrowZine and docwise. BrowZine: <meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=463787411"> docwise iPad <meta content='app-id=581136701' name='apple-itunes-app'> docwise iPhone: <meta content='app-id=628730259' name='apple-itunes-app'> I want to know more about this! Can...

End of 2011 I wrote an article for a Dutch Journal called "Digitale Bibliotheek" about medical libraries and mobile apps. It is available at ResearchGate.com . Only now i got to translating it (thank the stars for friends with translator skills!) and publishing it on Scribd I used it partly for the EAHIL 2013 Workshop Session on  Mobile  technology,  platforms  and apps. Nice thing about Scribd is the embed. Less fun is the advertising on Scribd, which can be pretty inappropriate... At the end I list 5 areas libraries at least should focus on. Please give you opinion or give more suggestions! Are these areas still relevant? There is an App for That Too! About Medical Libraries and Mobile Apps by Guus van den Brekel

I bumped into a blog post from ChemConnectorBlog about free tools to calculate your h-index. This was posted already in 2011 and I got curious if there would be more tools available right now. Here is a short summary of tools that can be used: (If I missed some, please let me know via Comments please!) The Central Medical Library advices to use Web of Science (ISI)  to calculate your h-index. Within the UMCG this is still the generally accepted citation resource & tool. We help patrons setting up their ResearcherID and Google Scholar Citations. ResearcherID from Thomson Reuters   offers Citation Metrics, including your h-index to be calculated from your publications. We calculate the h-index for patrons on request either via  Web of Science (ISI)  or via "Publish or Perish" This free software makes it possible for librarians (or patrons) to create the h-index for themselves or for others.(Note: risk of getting banned temporarily from Google Scholar ...

Many thanks to the creator of the Page from the Download Portal of the RUG. Below you'll find a list of tools which can be used on a Mac.  At the moment of publication all tools were freeware. Name: ClamXav Link:  http://www.clamxav.com/ Description: ClamXav is a free virus scanner for Mac OS X. It uses the very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end and has the ability to detect both Windows and Mac threats. ClamXav can be setup up to scan only the files you tell it to or your entire hard drive. Name:  Cyberduck Link:  http://cyberduck.ch/ Description: Open source ftp, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, google Docs & amazon S# Browser for Mac & Windows Name:  Disco Link:  http://www.discoapp.com/ Description: Disco allows you to burn optical media discs, and makes it an fun and amazing software experience. Name:  Evernote Link:  http://www.evernote.com Description: Evernote is een notitieprogr...