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Die Zukunft der Medizin ist weiblich - Untersuchung der von Studierenden der Universität Witten/Herdecke gegründeten Unternehmensberatung NOHETO! belegt unterschiedliches Therapieverhalten von Ärzten und Ärztinnen.

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Wiley annonced that the Pharmacology and Toxicology Backfile Collection went live in September.
The 13 journal collection spans 34,400 articles of historical papers and includes the seminal titles Archiv der Pharmazie and the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

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Taylor & Francis announced the introduction of an “iOpenAccess” option for authors publishing in all journals from T&F and Informa Healthcare. From October 2006, all authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication in one of the iOpenAccess journals will have the option to make their articles freely available via the Journal’s website for a one-off [...]

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In Making the best use of medical librarians Helen Elwell describes how to make the most of librarians’ skills and knowledge. BMJ Career Focus 333 (7568): 108
Medical librarians are professionally qualified. They have either a graduate or a postgraduate qualification, which has been accredited by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. The most [...]

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That was for sure one of the most enjoyful events at the conference. [Thanks Guus]

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Im Rahmen der AGMB-Jahrestagung in Jena wurde in der am 25. September 2006 durchgeführten Mitgliederversammlung mitgeteilt, dass neben den bereits etablierten Arbeitskreisen für Krankenhausbibliotheken, für Pharmabibliotheken und für Medizinbibliotheken an Hochschulen nunmehr auch AK österreichischer Medizinbibliothekarinnen und -bibliothekare eingerichtet worden ist.

In den letzten zwei Jahren hat sich ein zwangloses Forum österreichischer Medizinbibliothekarinnen und -bibliothekare, bestehend [...]

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The American Medical Association is preparing to digitize the back files of JAMA & Archives to make them available to the library community.

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Visitors can access almost two years of archived radio reports, which deal with such timely matters as reports on chronic drinkers, the link between obesity and infertility in men, and the role of certain chemicals in reducing lung functions. [Thanks Scout Report]

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Steven Ovadia writes in The Serials Librarian, 51(1)2006, about The Need to Archive Blog Content.
Librarians are rapidly moving toward a situation where newspapers and magazines are directing readers to blogs that might not exist in the future.

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Der belgische Pharmakonzern UCB übernimmt die Monheimer Schwarz Pharma AG für 4,4 Milliarden Euro, berichtet der Spiegel Online. Nachdem Merck Serono kauft und Nycomed Altana-Pharma, geht die Fusionierungs- und Konsolidierungswelle in der Chemie- und Pharmabranche also munter weiter. Mich interessiert’s deshalb, weil ich beinahe mal selber zu Schwarz Pharma gegangen wäre. Als damaliger Berufsanfänger warnten [...]

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David point me to this blog by Becky J., Nashville, Tennessee - nice and well selected resources! (Entered into medinfo’s blogroll)

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So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m “Ready for Some Stories”. It is a way online for you to get a quick list of the latest story headlines from all your favorite websites and blogs all in one place. How cool is that? [Thanks David]

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The Health and Biosciences Section Satellite Session will take place 18th August 2007 at the 73rd IFLA Annual Conference and Council at Durban, South Africa.

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[W]orks being digitalised for the library will mainly be from before the 1920s unless the issue of intellectual property rights is dealt with. “This is one of the main topics in all discussions going on at the moment,” says Britta Woldering of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and CENL – a group of national librarians. “The issue [...]

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By the title “Phrases We Don’t Want to Hear…But Are None The Less True“, Krafty disputes some provocative statements of Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) by heart. She reminds us on the weak position of an OPL hospital librarian if she wants the hospital IT department to do something for the library. It’s a sometimes [...]

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Immer mehr Forscher tauschen ihre Aufsätze im Internet aus. Bei de Gruyter hat man das spät erkannt, immerhin gibt jetzt es den „Pschyrembel“, ein Standardwerk der Medizin, und etliche Zeitschriften online. Aber was, wenn das Internet die papierenen Bibliografien und Nachschlagwerke des Saur-Verlages überflüssig macht? Dann hätte sich de Gruyter einen Klotz ans Bein gebunden. [...]

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Guus’ Project Second Life Library 2.0 wins second place of the this years Talis price International Mashing the Library Up 2006.
Congratulation, Guus!

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Bloggers were well represented at the 10th EAHIL Conference at Cluj and quite active all around the day, thanks to an excellent and free conference hotspot. At http://eahil2006.blogspot.com/, they collaborativly blogged most of the sessions, linked to the presentations or even uploaded them, as well as a lot of pictures, and the conference newsletter “Transylvanian [...]

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Apple of the Months for the Company of Biologists! The Company is adopting a tiered pricing system for its journals, Development, Journal of Cell Science and The Journal of Experimental Biology from 2007 onwards. Description of the tiers and their prices. Even if a library could make savings, The Company seems to apologize for the [...]

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Der CEO von Macmillan (Teil von Holtzbrinck und Mutter von Nature Publishing Group), Richard Charkin beklagt die Copyright Erosion durch OA und zeigt sich in seinem eigenen Blog über Open Access schlecht unterrichtet.

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