DigiCMB

In order to increase the visibility of open access scientific and scholarly publications of the University Medical Center Groningen and thereby promoting their increased usage and impact, I am trying to create an automatically updating overview of OA publications of the UMCG, next to the beta WordPress blog that is being constructed to show all UMCG scientific publications With the masive attention the Open Access "movement" in international publising and media, I expected to this to be an easy task. But very quickly after trying to identify the resources to find these publications, it became clear that there are some serious difficulties. I won't go into details about the effects of publicing in OA or the impact factors of OA Journals , just making them visible. Many resources and overviews focus heaviliy on journal titels and sets, instead of the actual publications. Search opties are often limited, poor and it is not always possible to search for the publicat...

With the focus on "Is there a Life after Second Life" I did a small kind of "class" Second Life for a couple of IDM Hanze Students today. It was an improvised session with lots of discussion, and I did not have a slideshow prepared. But here are some links to nice stuff out there: Want to Learn How to Use Second Life Quick ánd Good? Go To The Best Orientation Center for Second Life: Virtual Ability Second Life and Public Health: http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/SecondLifePublicHealth.mov All Health related sims and groups: SLHEALTHY.WETPAINT.COM My talk on Health Education: http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/health-and-medical-eduation-in-second-life-idld2008-paris-presentation Claudia Linden in Holland Open, Sept 2008, Amsterdam http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/09f6e15d8 (!) Jeremy Kemp: From 7 to 700: Scaling graduate LIS instruction in virtual environments: http://www.slideshare.net/jeremykemp/from-7-to-700-scaling-graduate-lis-instructionin-virtua...