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A little later than EbscoHost did it, but Scopus has announced to release RSS-functionality in their SpringRelease due at April 5th http://www.info.scopus.com/springrelease/ powerpoint Only a few are worth mentioning: 3. New Subject Area Classification (see slides 7 and 8) "We have introduced a more granular level of classification for content in Scopus. There will be now 27 subject classifications instead of the current 11 . These have been grouped into 4 broad subject areas; Life Sciences; Health Sciences; Physical Sciences and Social Sciences - for easier searching. Classification is at the journal, not article level and it is possible for one journal to have multiple classifications" I still don't think this is the strong part of Scopus. Classification at the journal level is not good enough, 27 subject areas is little better than 11, but they should find another way to do this. 6. Spelling Suggestions (see slide 13) "When zero search results are retu...

Just featured in Internet Resources Newsletter today: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) is a peer reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services, using the OJS Software. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians and other information professionals to discover research that may contribute to decision making in professional practice. EBLIP publishes original research and commentary on the topic of evidence based library and information practice, as well as reviews of previously published research (evidence summaries) on a wide number of topics. http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP (Also distributed via discussionlist `Evidence based practice to librarianship and information science` EVIDENCE-BASED-LIBRARIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK ) Current issue articles: Adding SPICE to a Library Intranet Site: A Recipe to Enhance Usability Lisa Cotter, Larnich Harije, Suzanne Lewis, Ingrid Ton...

The Krafty Libarian will be presenting a poster "Integrating and Promoting Medical Podcasts into the Library Collection" on the MLA. It's her goal to have as up to date a list as possible for when she attends MLA. Problem is that "there is no good authorative resource listing medical podcasts". So she has done a lot of searching and scrolling along iTunes and others. Here is the new link for the updated list http://www.kraftweb.net/kl/podcasts2.doc Target audience is -for now-: the medical profession AND the public Criteria : clear and reputable origin/authoring Growth: at a large rate, mainly MEDICAL SCHOOLS Developments : more VIDEO podcasts! A "newcomer" on the list: University of Utah School of Medicine. http://umed.med.utah.edu/ms1/aud_lec.cfm Podcasts lectures for the students of the University of Utah School of Medicine. Primary Audience: Medical students Recent programs include: • Biochemistry: Introduction to lipids and fatty acids • Ge...

Even the Wall Street Journal says that the internet health search business is growing. Relative newcomer are listed: Kosmix.com WebMD Healthline Networks Mamma.com and MedStory So, not everybody is waiting for Google Health to be launched! I expect them to do it soon, and make links between their just published Google Finance. The Kosmix has chosen a nice model, because it presents the search results in categories like expert information )journals, clinical trials, Guidelines', Message Boards, Blogs, Basic Information and Medical Organizations.

After waiting for several months now, EffectiveBrand has finally changed the way you can add RSS-feeds to the Toolbar. They do a great job, it's free ánd easy. You could do it in 5 minutes. You can now add unlimited RSS-feeds to óne button ! This makes it possible to make dedicated buttons by news, subject or journals or .... They even made it possible to give it separate title. It saves lots of space on the Toolbar. One small things they should do next.... make a menu-structure available, just like all the other link-buttons. And while they are at it, please continue and make this happen for the custom searchengines (all the biomedical resources and more)as well! But I am not complaining, this certainly made my weekend even better!

Oliver Obst of MEDINFO WEBLOG let's us know that " Online Mitteilungen Nr. 85 (März 2006)" are almost completly about the comparison of Scopus with Web of Science. E. Pipp: Vergleich der von Scopus bzw. Web of Science erfassten Zeitschriften (Seite 3-17) B. Wildner: Web of Science Scopus: Auf der Suche nach Zitierungen (Seite 18-20) K. Schneider: Scopus Web of Science: Versuch einer Bewertung aus pharmakognostischer Sicht (Seite 21-24) J. Gorraiz: Web of Science versus Scopus oder Das aktuelle Dilemma der Bibliotheken (Seite 25-30) It's in German, but that should not bother the interested reader!

The University Library of Groningen launched a blog about the development and configuration of Ex-Libris SFX en MetaLib in Groningen. The services are called RUGCombine (Metalib) and RUGLinks (SFX).I am part of the project team that's almost done with including all the subject portals involving all the RUG's Faculties and Institutes. The blog will post new ideas, list changes and track developments locally and elsewhere. The motto is :...Librarians like to search, everyone else likes to find... Latest post is: Myths and Realities of SFX in Academic Libraries In the March 2006 issue of the journal of academic librarianship, an interesting article by Wakimoto, Dabbour and Walker appeared, entitled: The Myths and Realities of SFX in Academic Libraries. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2005.12.008