DigiCMB

See the NEW INFOGRAPHIC   |     (click here for the Dutch versions) Do you want to know ALL OPTIONS to get access to the pdf of an scientific article? You will find all tips and tools below. The University of Groningen Library  has -together with the Central Medical Library UMCG - a very large collection e-journals ( e-journals; 50.000+ titels) The search-engine/catalogue  SmartCat , but also t he Get it!-button are two main ways to reach the full-text in our collection, but both tools do have their issues.  Only too often things go wrong in offering our users the direct access to the pdf's.  (more details on this at the end of the post) We often can not explain this to the customer. This causes frustration and confusion. Many users stop using these tools or disconnect from the library alltogether ... This is really unnecessary, with the use of the following tips and tools! Here is the overview of ALL opti...

See the NEW INFOGRAPHIC     |        (click here for the UPDATED english version) Wil je weten op welke manieren je makkelijker toegang kunt krijgen tot de pdf van een e-journal dat je zoekt? Hieronder schets ik alle mogelijkheden. De Universiteitsbibliotheek Groningen heeft -samen met o.a. de Centrale Medische Bibliotheek (CMB UMCG) - een enorme collectie electronische tijdschriften ( e-journals; zo'n 50.000 titels) De zoekmachine/catalogus SmartCat maar ook de Get-it-knop zijn twee manieren om bij de full-text te komen, maar met beide tools gaat er nogal eens wat mis. (Lees meer details hierover aan het eind) Dit is niet uit te leggen. Het zorgt voor veel onvrede, en mensen die afhaken bij het gebruik van die tools of de bibliotheek... Dit is NIET nodig, met een aantal tips en trucs! Hier zijn alle manieren om toegang tot de full-text te krijgen: 1. Via  de Get-it knop  in onze literatuur databases (zoals Pub...

I found the talk by Paul Wouters on responsible metrics for Open Science extremely interesting and thought provoking. A very good break-down of key-factors and elements that play a role. I hope the recorded streams will be online soon! Conclusions & take home messages for me: More pictures:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/slml/sets/72157676726546675 I need to dive deeper in theory & sociological approach of research evaluation I plan to read up on the papers mentioned & showed in Paul's talk . Altmetric.com uses impressive techniques (i.e. text-mining) to find references to scientific publications. Those slides are a MUST-SEE! Ben McLeish did a great job explaining what they do & how far they have come already. Where Altmetric.com shows all the attention outside the organisation connected to scientific publications, PlumX has a more focus on showing how people inside the organisation doing, including comparing them. Kudos expects individual r...

I recently got a question about the results of the UMCG in the survey 101 Innovations in scholarly communications. Truth is, I have not looked into it yet. It only involved 273 participants. In my opinions too little to draw general conclusions, but if we could zoom out to a Dutch level ..... There are 645 responses who stated they are currently in the Netherlands (or their last affiliation was) Here is a drill-down: Data from dashboard101innovations-eahil.silk.co 645 is is not an impressive amount. If we add discipline Life Sciences, we get to 765. On the European level we reach the total amount of 2200 responses. Two questions arise: Can we draw any conclusions on the Dutch result based on just 765 responses? And Do the Dutch results differ from the overall European outcome? The survey has 17 questions. Let's look at them one by one with the above questions in mind. What tools/sites do you use to search literature / data / etc.? Search literature / data / etc  (PRESET...

I am picking up where I left with Blogspot after a long sidestep  to Rebelmouse . Rebelmouse is a very powerful tool aggregation & curation of information, for blogging, a website even, but I miss the possibility to simply EMBED some widget, some html-code to tweak a post of info in a post........ In particular was i looking for a place to show results from the big survey 101 innovations in scholarly communication on certain topics in general, but with focus on a special SILK Dashboard on European researchers population that responded within the discipline MEDICINE. Here are two examples: The use of reference management tools in the Netherlands https://t.co/5PAvTwWvbl : a visualisation from survey https://t.co/NKrt8uI35y — Guus van den Brekel (@digicmb) June 16, 2016 Data from dashboard101innovations.silk.co 3319 responses of German-speaking researchers on survey used tools in scholarly communications #wisskom2016 see data https://t.co/9a7nb0gdYy — Guus v...

Bookmarklets can be very useful. To install these in "normal" browsers is rather simple. They appear as a Bookmark in your Bookmark bar and can be activated by single click when needed. Here is the  page about installing the RUG proxy bookmarklet  in your desktop/laptop browser. This proxy bookmarklet will check from any webpage if you have access to the fulltext of the journal, article or other digital library licenced resource! On the iPad it is a bit more complicated, but not difficult. (If you do not see you Bookmark Bar on your iPad, go to Settings, Safari; Turn ON "Always Show Bookmarks Bar") Here the description on how to install the RUG proxy bookmarklet in the iPad browser. Step 0: Open this post on your ipad .... Step 1: Use "Add Bookmark" (it does not matter from what page) to create a bookmark and .. Step 2: Call it : Library Proxy, and click"SAVE" Step 3: Open Bookmarks & History (click the open book ...) Step 4: ...

In one of my previous posts on Updates on (medical) journal Apps  i did mention there was no news about Docphin . And very quickly after that they came with a major update! Here are the main new features of Docphin: the IOS App is now ALSO for IPAD , which is a big step forward. This makes Docphin more competitive with ReadbyQxMD and docwise . The Docphin web-interface is however still unique, offering users to check and maintain their preferred journals & news on desktop computers easily. Maybe ReadbyQxMD is goind that way too with their  Read on the  Web, search   feature. Institutional Access   -  Save your password and never type it in again This is a major improvement too taking away loging in over and over again. ReadbyQxMD , BrowZine and Docphin now have this for the library proxy and I am hoping docwise will go there soon too! Medstream - Keep up with breaking research in the news Get visually triggered by relevant topics and rel...