Posted in Open Access on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
A consortium of international research institutions has launched DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research). Bielefeld and Göttingen take part. [Thanks OAN]
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Posted in Open Access on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller, Open access for the medical librarian, Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, Summer 2006. [Thanks OAN]
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Posted in Publikationswesen on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
Ulrich Herb: “Schöne neue Welt des Open Access - Journale, Impact Factor, radikale Monopole und Karrieren” Telepolis, September 15, 2006. Teil 1 und Teil 2 [Thanks OAN]
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Posted in Open Access on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
The experiment of the weekly journal Nature with Open Peer Review seems to be a success, according to Matt Whipp, Nature journal puts blogging into peer reviews, PC Pro, September 15, 2006[Thanks OAN]
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Posted in Publikationswesen on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
The Trouble with Medical Journals by Richard Smith (BMJ-Editor), Royal Society of Medicine, October 2006, is now on pre-order at Amazon. [Thanks OAN] Aus einem Review:
Medical journals have become “creatures of the drug industry” rife with fraudulent research and packed with articles ghost written by pharmaceutical companies
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Posted in Open Access, Publikationswesen on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
Scientific publishing in transition: an overview of current developments, a white paper from ALPSP and STM. [Thanks OAN]
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Posted in Kongresse on Sep 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Posted in Bibliotheken, Open Access on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
The US law initiative FRPAA was discussed earlier in this blog. T.Scott used the widespread letters of pro and cons for arguing about the fate of scientific societies and on what side a librarian should stand.
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Posted in Bibliotheken, Weblogs on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
The Library of the Yale School of Nursing has a weblog: YSN library [Thanks Krafty]
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Posted in Kongresse on Sep 20th, 2006 Comments Off
… sind inzwischen online. Und hier sind noch ein paar bei Flickr.
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Posted in Open Access on Sep 19th, 2006 Comments Off
BioMed Central has compiled a summary of the open access policies of different biomedical funders, linking to official policy statements from those funders where available.
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Für die Suche nach randomisierten Studien gibt es mittlerweile erprobte Suchfilter. Schwieriger gestaltet sich die Suche nach nicht-randomisierten Studien. In BMC Medical Research Methodology ist eine aktuelle Publikation hierzu erschienen (free online):
Fraser C, Murray A, Burr J.
Identifying observational studies of surgical interventions in Medline and Embase.
BMC Med Res Methodol. 2006 Aug 18;6(1):41
PMID: 16919159
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/6/41
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Posted in Bibliotheken, EAHIL, Kongresse, Zukunft on Sep 18th, 2006 Comments Off
The empowerment session (Powerpoint) by Lars (left) “The hunt for the perfect interface in a Googlified world” was one of the highlights of the EAHIL conference this year.
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Posted in Literatursuche, Medline on Sep 18th, 2006 Comments Off
Im aktuellen NLM Technical Bulletin, Sep-Oct 2006 werden zwei wichtige PubMed-Änderungen zum Jahresende angekündigt:
MeSH Category V Terms: Change in Treatment from MeSH Heading to Publication Type During Year-End-Processing for Both MEDLINE and NLM Catalog
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so06/so06_pt_catalog.html
Bestimmte MeSH-Terms werden ab 2007 zu Publication Types (dann gespeicherte Suchstrategien für alerts in MyNCBI ändern, falls Suchfelder angegeben sind).
Changes to OLDMEDLINE Records [...]
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Posted in Kongresse on Sep 18th, 2006 Comments Off
Weit weg von Zuhause. Vielleicht kann/möchte ja jemand hin:
Evidence Based Library & Information Practice 4th International Conference “Transforming the Profession” http://www.eblip4.unc.edu/
May 6-11, 2007, Chapel Hill-Durham, North Carolina, USA
The Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP4) is an exciting international event that has emerged in response to the growing interest among all types of libraries [...]
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Posted in AGMB, Allgemeines, Refs on Sep 18th, 2006 1 Comment »
Apropos Information Overload: Dorothee Boeckh teilt in medibib-l mit:
Der AGMB-Webmaster Peter Kastanek hat auf der AGMB-Website ein Forum zum Informationsaustausch eingerichtet. Bitte testen Sie diesen neuen Service, damit wir uns auf der Tagung darüber unterhalten können. Anregungen, Wünsche, Kritik und natürlich Lob nimmt Herr Kastanek gerne entgegen.
Hmm, mal gucken, wer der Anbieter ist: [...]
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Posted in Evidence-based-Medicine, Literatursuche on Sep 18th, 2006 Comments Off
Die Suchoberfläche der Datenbanken DARE, NHS EED und HTA, die auch Bestandteile der Cochrane Library sind, wurde vom Centre for Reviews and Dissemination neu gestaltet. Im Gegensatz zu anderen kostenlosen Zugangsmöglichkeiten werden hier die Abstracts in ungekürzter Form angezeigt. Empfehlenswert für diejenigen, die keine Lizenz für die Cochrane Library haben.
“The new look provides users with:
Enhanced [...]
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Posted in Bibliotheken, Open Access on Sep 18th, 2006 Comments Off
“Evidence Based Library and Information Practice has just published its latest issue.” [via EBLIG]
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Background is the experience at the EAHIL Conference in Cluj, that blogs have to be (and in fact are made for) working together to share information (overload ).
Bloggers united!
That proves to be very effective when live blogging the conference at Cluj. Networking is only possible by same language, Linga Franca, e.g. English. Lars [...]
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Posted in Bibliotheken on Sep 18th, 2006 Comments Off
The updated version of the University of California Libraries Principles for Acquiring and Licensing Information in Digital Formats can be found here.
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