DigiCMB

Remarkably interesting book (free fulltext) with numerous good articles about the new learning and consequences for Educational organizations and Libraries. Read this and you will know what has to change (or should have been changed already) If Educational organization's do not react, they risk failure of their programs to achieve end-goals. If Libraries do not react, they risk being replaced completely by other (commercial) information providers, and in the end maybe even their meaning of existence. Students are the medical specialists, clinicians, researchers of the future, you need them to be on your side, or better they need the best medical information there is, you have to deliver it to them, "in the place where they live" , the Net.... While preparing a paper on the subject of the changing needs of the medical students en staff concerning library services I also came across a new Dutch Report "Leren van Jongeren" (Learning of Youth) van SURF

Must read: Special Issue on Searching and Mining Literature Digital Libraries of the "Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering" Most interesting perhaps is a new study on the IMPACT OF OPEN ACCESS: Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact by Chawki Hajjem, Stevan Harnad, Yves Gingras See the BOLD spots for remarkable info in the abstract! Abstract In 2001, Lawrence found that articles in computer science that were openly accessible (OA) on the Web were cited substantially more than those that were not. We have since replicated this effect in physics. To further test its cross-disciplinary generality, we used 1,307,038 articles published across 12 years (1992-2003) in 10 disciplines (Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Health, Political Science, Economics, Education, Law, Business, Management). We designed a robot that trawls the Web for full-texts using reference metadata (author, title,...

ACCESS2005 keeps revealing nice stuff. I have been scrolling some presentations again and ran into the MonkeyWrenching talk from Ross Singer again. He mentiones the good things you can do with good old Javascript and gives an example of integration with a METALIB3 (ExLibris) installation, with the Citation Linker to be precise. While filling in the words from a journal title, a menu appears with the available journals containing that words! I am sure we want this as well in our METALIB installation called RUGCOMBINE !

Again picked from the Krafty Librarian : UpToDate Interview in Journal of Electronic Resources for Medical Libraries : An Interview with Denise Basow and Fritz Hofheinz of UpToDate Elizabeth Connor MLS, AHIP, Assistant Professor, Daniel Library, The Citadel, Charleston, SC, 29407, elizabeth.connor@citadel.edu Electronic Resources for Medical Libraries v. 2 (4) 81-92 2005. We seem to have a subscription but currently no fulltext access. Could anybody send me a copy via mail? Abstract: This interview provides insights into the products and services offered by UpToDate, a leading source of clinical information. Topics discussed include UpToDate's topic reviews, consumer health information, peer-reviewed content, handheld devices, pricing models, future trends, and predictions. Also interesting for (medical) librarians is: An Interview with Tony McSean, Director of Library Relations, Elsevier Science Abstract: This interview provides insights into the products and services offer...

Picked from the Krafty Librarian Blog: "The first Google Newsletter for Librarians was published (Dec 2005) . "This newsletter was conceived at the 2005 ALA conference in Chicago , where Google hosted a booth in the exhibit hall. We spent three days chatting with librarians about Google: what you liked, what you didn't like, and where you saw opportunities to work together to help people find useful, relevant information." Future issues will feature articles contributed by librarians and library supporters, links to library-related web sites, and updates on Google products and services that can help you in your work..... Google invites librarians to send in their Google thoughts, questions, article suggestions and stories of how librarians use and keep up with technology on the job."

The QuickSearch CMB Library Toolbar is now available since November 1st 2005 on 4 different ways: IE installation within standard student network of the University, section Medicine. Available in Library Services. Windows XP with NAL IE installation within standard staff network of the UMCG (former Faculty of Medicine). Available in Library Services. Windows XP with NAL IE Download from website for use OUTSIDE student or staff network FireFox download from website for use OUTSIDE student or staff network Monitoring the number of installations and active users via option 3. & 4. is available via the admin account of EffectiveBrand. Monitoring of the rest has started later and no data is available from that at this moment. Last week the number of downloads has reached the 200 , active users rise to a concurrent max of 70 per day, and the total amount of searches since the start is 4928. The number of available resources for searching is still increasing, as is the total amount of e-...

It looks like finally -after months of promising publication- that Faculty of 1000 MEDICINE will be available in January 2006! You can take a peek at a preview version: http://www.f1000medicine.com/browse/ What is it? "Faculty of 1000 Medicine is the next-generation literature evaluation and awareness service for medicine. Based on the recommendations of a selected faculty of nearly 2500 leading, international researchers and clinicians, it will systematically highlight and review the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine." The BIOLOGY F1000 has been rather successful.