DigiCMB

" In a recent demo of Summon at the University of Groningen Library we tested some medical search terms, users would likely to be entering when they are discovering what a tool that promises "One Search Box, Your library discovered" or "One search engine, one search, no stress" The rather stupid search " heart attack " (but is to be expected by starting new med students expecting a google-like framework and no serious search experience for scientific information) does give you really terrible results, especially when you forget to choose to: Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review or Exclude Newspaper Articles (thank you Wichor Bramer for the search tip, and @Dympie  about Scopus still using "heart attack" as example search) Bad results from the perspective of the medical librarian in a academic setting who expects students and staff to turn up with Pubmed records. Having seen a Ebsco Discovery Servi...

ScienceRoll Medical Search is a new federated search tool created by Bertelan (Berci) Meskó together with PolyMeta . Scienceroll Medical Search is a personalized medical metasearch engine . You can choose the databases you want to search in and exclude any of them to make your search as individualized as possible. ...The aim is to create a useful, editable metasearch engine for the entire medical community. And it does what is said: there are 4 major search categories (Basic Health Information, Drugs, Organizations and Research Information) with all together 23 "databases" which can be selected by choice. it delivers fast results (within 10 second) presented in manageable merged first set with an " Also Consider" advice a clustered overview of Topics, Date and Format in a relevance ranked order I hope Berci is working on two major things that I and many others (clinicians and other medical staff) would love ..: a drill-down option for the results (incl. sele...

A returning question from participants in workshops and courses about using RSS & Personal Start Pages & Netvibes, is "How can I track the use of the Public Page (Universe) by Netvibes?) And what about the use of the Search & News widgets?" I am still looking for a good answer for the widgets tracking, because Netvibes is not offering tracking of individual widgets at this time, and I haven't heard any talk about it. So for this, we can only see the downloads from the eco.netvibes.com or widgetbox.com sites. (Google is offering -for their own gadgets- a manual for gadget tracking . Maybe some geek can/did try and mash this up to make it work for other widgets ...?) I DID find a way to keep track of the use of the Public pages! Create a Google Analytics account Add a website profile for the Netvibes Universe (i.e. http://www.netvibes.com/digicmb). This only works if you use the for the basic url. If you put the Google Analytics code (make sure you use t...

Arhg, how long can you overlook something as simple a "link" option in Google Maps? After a good example from Brian Kelly in his talks all over the world in Google Maps, I finally sat down and tried to capture all of mine in a map. And then I keps searching for the embedded code for hours, stupido. And finally I found it. It is in the righthand corner under the icon with text "link" ;-) View Larger Map Tags: google , maps , ukoln , embed , presentations , google maps