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Have to read this more carefull later! Journal of Medical Internet Research Journal of Medical Internet Research - International Scientific Journal for Medical Research, Information and Communication on the Internet Architecture for Knowledge-Based and Federated Search of Online Clinical Evidence By e.coiera@unsw.edu.au (Enrico Coiera) Background It is increasingly difficult for clinicians to keep up-to-date with the rapidly growing biomedical literature. Online evidence retrieval methods are now seen as a core tool to support evidence-based health practice. However, standard search engine technology is not designed to manage the many different types of evidence sources that are available or to handle the very different information needs of various clinical groups, who often work in widely different settings. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this paper are (1) to describe the design considerations and system architecture of a wrapper-mediator approach to federate search system design, i...

A PICO search in PubMed would be very nice and something extra to the Clinical Queries, but currently it is only possible via PDA's. You can play the search on a normal computer as well, but there are a few disadvantages: The form of the PICO search is limited. No refine, limitations or anything Fulltext links only directly to the wellknown publishers who make their logo's visible in PUBMED. I have not yet found possiblity for Outside Tools integration, such as SFX library icons any form of citation management is missing But for instructional/educational purposes it could be very usefull!

While the Library is just starting with offering a QuickSearch CMB Toolbar to the users, there is a new gadget that could be usefull in bringing the content to the users. A fully adjustable desktopsidebar. "Desktop Sidebar provides you with instant access to the information you most desire by grabbing data from your PC and the internet. The result is a dynamic visual display you configure and control. How can you make this possible? Choose from among a wide selection of information conduits (e.g. MS Outlook, toolbars, newsfeeds), called "panels". Fully customizable, Desktop Sidebar allows you to dock these panels to the edge of the screen, or arrange them anywhere on your desktop as you wish. All panels are configurable with a number of specific options" posted by Marcus 4:10 AM

Marcus P. Zillman mentioned a new white paper link compilation of Online research Tools in his Blog at http://www.researchresources.info/ . The white paper is long, but very usefull. A great overview of search possiblities, software tools etc. It is constantly updated and once in a while a new white paper is made. Zillman has more white papers to share at http://www.whitepapers.us/ : Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation [Updated 06-04-05 34 Pages] http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/12/academic-and-scholar-search-engines.html Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators - White Paper Link Compilation [Updated 05-29-05 22 Pages] http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/09/bots-blogs-news-aggregators-white.html Business Intelligence Online Resources - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation [Released 04-26-05 23 Pages] http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/04/business-intelligence-online-resources.html Current Awareness Discovery Tools o...

GET YOUR CONTENT AND SERVICES OUT THERE! It looks like everybody is shouting this! ( Gordon Ramsey, oh, no sorry Lorcan Dempsey OCLC PICA at LIBER 2005. Or is it just the case of what you want to hear, you will hear ... According to the Shifted Librarian (Jenny Levine) ProQuest is showing "visionary leadership" in the field of RSS for libraries. They are planning to launch dynamic keyword RSS-feeds. Jenny gave a few presentations about the subject. You can view the slides here (the large one!) or here (PDFs). ProQuest mentiones specific purpose in a academic setting, but it can easily be translated to other types of libraries. Please read the blog-item of Jenny yourself and tell me you do not get excited! Look at the presentations -they look great- and you must agree with me that "The Shifted Librarian"'s views are worth to be discussed in any library organisation, including a academical setting. Most of the time developments in Europe follow the US and t...

Pubmed offers the possiblity to save searches as RSS-feed. This opens a lot of new chances for libraries and users to improve alerting services. Libraires working with the so-called OUTSIDE TOOL to make the library collection visible via for instance an SFX-button (Metalib) could point their users to the direction of this RSS-feed option, but ........ At this moment an integrated feed of PubMEd shows NO OUTSIDE tool within the short presentation of the feed WITHIN the FEEDREADER. I asked PubMEd to implement this and this is their answer: "I brought this to the development team meeting and basically it would involve changing Linkout programming and will not happen (at least not in the near future). Your best bet would be to maintain your Outside Tool capability so that your users can utilize that functionality. " So it will not be there in the near future, but perhaps if more people ask for the functionality .....?

After reviewing several free desktop rss-feed readers i decided to go for the RSSOWL reader for the users of the UMCG. Several weeks ago i asked the ICT departments to include a standard RSS reader in the user environment, their dektop, via the network. Because not everybody has the right to install this kind of programs, and because it will take some time before it will be standard included into the standard webbrowser or mailclient the Central Medical Library wants to offer this via the Novell Application Launcher or via the Windows XP ASD network. RSs Feeds have great potential for delivering news and content changes of webpages, such as weblogs without putting further strain to the mailbox of the users. RSSOWL received the qualification BEST "BUY" in the September issue of the computer magazine PCM.