May
17
The fastest librarian in the west
May 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
Der zweite Platz des NLM Video Contest ging an das Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, University of New Mexico. Ob da wohl die Schnitte a la Ed Wood schuld sind? Sehen Sie selbst: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpYvQAc8e4w
(via NLM Tech Bulletin)
Jan
23
PubMed Suchergebnisse geclustert und visualisiert
January 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Dass Suchergebnisse nicht nur eine Liste von Treffern sein koennen, demonstriert das Open-Source Project Carrot2, dass auf der freien Suchmaschinenbibliothek “Lucene” basiert.
Die Entwickler beschreiben Carrot2 selber als: “Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize small collections of documents, e.g. search results, into thematic categories.”
Sehr [...]
Apr
25
NLM-Klassifikation Ausgabe 2008 online
April 25, 2008 | Comments Off
Die neue Ausgabe der NLM-Klassifikation ist online. Neu ist z.B. Volleyball oder die geographischen Tafeln bei Alternativmedizin (Arabic traditional medicine, Korean traditional medicine, …).
The NLM Classification, available online at http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/, incorporates all additions and changes to the schedules and index from April 2007 through March 2008
Mar
31
Ich hasse PubMed
March 31, 2008 | Comments Off
Bei uns Bibliothekaren geht das ja oft unter, da PubMed unsere Leib-und-Magendatenbank ist, aber PubMed hat wohl auch seine Nachteile, Bugs und Schwierigkeiten (klar, Google ist leichter). Was wichtiger wiegt ist die Tatsache, dass wir uns nicht mehr in den harten 70er oder 80ern befinden, wo irgendein Zugang zu Medline wie ein Sechser im Lotto [...]
Dec
16
NLM RSS Feeds, Podcasts and Webcasts
December 16, 2007 | Comments Off
Die NLM hat eine (neue?) Seite zum obigen Themenkreis. Es werden Feeds zu folgenden Topics angeboten:
RSS feeds from NLM
- RSS PubMed New and Noteworthy – Enhancements to the PubMed, Journals, and MeSH databases
- RSS Bookshelf News – Announcements about the NCBI Bookshelf
- RSS NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories – Clinical findings that significantly affect morbidity [...]
Nov
15
PubMed mit PHP und SOAP abgefragt
November 15, 2007 | 4 Comments
Gestern ist im PHP-Magazin (Ausgabe 1.2008) ein Artikel erschienen, in dem exklusiv eine PHP Klasse vorgestellt wird, mit der man die PubMed und andere Datenbanken des NCBI elegant abfragen kann:
Remote abgefragt
Die Datenbanken des US-Zentrums für Biotechnologieinformation per SOAP und PHP elegant remote abfragen http://phpmagazin.de/itr/online_artikel/psecom,id,965,nodeid,62,_language,de.html#
Oct
25
Public Mandate to NIH-funded Research
October 25, 2007 | Comments Off
Washington, D.C. — October 24, 2007 – The U.S. Senate last night approved the FY2008 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Bill (S.1710), including a provision that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen its Public Access Policy by requiring rather than requesting participation by researchers. [via ATA]
Jul
3
NLM Presentations at the MLA
July 3, 2007 | Comments Off
Aus dem Technical Bulletin der NLM: The NLM exhibit booth at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association featured theater presentations to bring users up-to-date on some of the Library’s products and services. This year, the presentations were recorded using Adobe® Connect™ and we are pleased to offer them with voice recordings and captions [...]
Jul
3
NCBI Literature Databases Page
July 3, 2007 | Comments Off
Aus dem Technical Bulletin der NLM: The Literature Databases page is a National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) resource that pulls together various Entrez resources in the general literature arena. This page is available from the NCBI home page blue sidebar by clicking on Literature databases. The resources listed on the page range from links [...]
Jun
25
PubMed Central Hits One Million Article Mark
June 25, 2007 | Comments Off
.. announced the NLM.
Jun
12
NIH Open Access Policy: From voluntary to mandatory?
June 12, 2007 | Comments Off
Es wird ernst: Diese Woche soll índ en USA wohl ein Gesetz verabschiedet werden, dass aus der Freiwilligkeit eine Ablieferungspflicht für NIH-gesponserte Forschungsartikel machen würde. [Lila Guterman via Peter Suber
May
21
Oldmedline und Mesh
May 21, 2007 | Comments Off
NLM Technical Bulletin: 76% der 1,7 Mio. OLDMEDLINE citations sind nun mit MESH versehen und gelten als “indexed for MEDLINE”.
May
21
Veterinary Search Added to PubMed Special Queries
May 21, 2007 | 1 Comment
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj07/mj07_vet.html
Apr
5
NLM Gateway and Haz-Map Search Module Netvibes
April 5, 2007 | Comments Off
[Thanks to Guus] The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Haz-Map has been updated. 226 new agents in the categories of metals, solvents, pesticides, mineral dusts, toxic gases and vapors, plastics and rubber, nitrogen compounds, and other compounds were added. Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking [...]
Mar
6
NLM’s Long Range Plans 2006-2016
March 6, 2007 | Comments Off
[Thanks to Krafty]
The final version of the Long Range Plan is on the NLM website, currently the plan is in PDF but an HTML version is forthcoming.
The plan states the strategic vision of NLM (derived from the meeting of the Strategic Vision Working Group in Washington, DC on Apr. 11-12, 2005), previous decades of progress [...]
Mar
5
Neue Zeitschriftenabkürzungen in Medline
March 5, 2007 | Comments Off
[Thanks to Dymphie]
Beginning March 1, 2007, NLM will adjust the way it assigns title abbreviations to journals indexed for MEDLINE® and cited in PubMed®. Rather than independently assigning title abbreviations for each title, NLM will accept the abbreviations assigned by the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Centre and modify the punctuation and capitalization to conform [...]
Feb
22
BabelMesh and Txt2MEDLINE
February 22, 2007 | Comments Off
[Thanks Krafty]
Here are two new options for searching MEDLINE courtsey of NLM.
BabelMesh is a cross-language search to MEDLINE/PubMed. Users can search using single terms or complex phrases in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The citations and abstracts retrieved will still be in English only. To search BabelMesh go [...]
Feb
20
National Library of Medicine’s Medical Text Indexer
February 20, 2007 | Comments Off
Semi-automatic indexing of full text biomedical articles. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005;:271-5 Authors: Gay CW, Kayaalp M, Aronson AR The main application of U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Medical Text Indexer (MTI) is to provide indexing recommendations to the Library’s indexing staff. The current input to MTI consists of the titles and abstracts of articles [...]
Jan
19
NIH/PubMed, etc: The future of large open databases
January 19, 2007 | Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber:
The Database Revolution, Nature, January 18, 2007 (accessible only to subscribers). An editorial. Excerpt:
…Which strategies best support the collection, analysis and dissemination of large databases of related information?…At a meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, last month, it was clear that the NIH is struggling to find a middle road between two diametrically [...]
Jan
12
UK PubMed Central Launches
January 12, 2007 | Comments Off
Nur zur Vollständigkeit (Sie werden es alle schon wissen):
Based on PubMed Central (PMC), the US National Institutes of Health free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, (http://ukpmc.ac.uk/) UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications. UKPMC is part of a network [...]
