Posted in From other blogs on Mar 5th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber
Jack W. Smith, Issues Related to Open Access and Clinical Data Repositories, a public lecture at Rice University, March 2, 2007. The lecture will soon be available as a webcast.
Posted in From other blogs on Mar 5th, 2007 Comments Off
Die diesjährige Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen (AGMB) findet vom 24.09. - 26.09.2007 in Ulm statt. Das Tagungsmotto lautet “Medizinbibliotheken mitten im Zentrum von (E-)Learning, Forschung und Patientenversorgung”.
Nähere Informationen finden Sie unter: http://www.agmb.de
Posted in From other blogs, Publikationswesen on Feb 27th, 2007 Comments Off
[Thanks to Peter Suber]
The ARL has published an Issue Brief on Wiley’s acquisition of Blackwell, February 26, 2007. Excerpt:
This document briefly outlines the growing dysfunction in the journal market resulting from the exercise of market power by an ever-shrinking group of large commercial publishers….
This planned consolidation within an already concentrated market immediately raised concerns within the [...]
Posted in From other blogs, Publikationswesen on Feb 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber:
Jan Velterop, Failing business models, The Parachute, February 22, 2007. Excerpt:
…The subscription system has the following problems (and quite possibly more) [PS: numbers added]:
The price to readers/libraries bears no relation to quality….
The price to readers/libraries bears no relation to the amount per article that’s taken out of the academic market. A ‘cheap’ [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks Peter Suber: William Walsh has a detailed summary of Elsevier’s lobbying activity in the US during 2006. His summary is based on a report from the Center for Public Integrity, using data from the Senate Office of Public Records.
Bottom line: in 2006, Elsevier spent $2.84 million on lobbying Congress. That’s less than it spent in 2005 but [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
Posted in From other blogs, Open Access, Weblogs on Feb 20th, 2007 Comments Off
[Thanks OAN] BioMed Central has started a blog, although it’s still in a pre-launch phase. Today, for example, BMC Publisher Matt Cockerill posted a note about the Brussels Conference, and included a link to his own presentation, Open Access publishing works.
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 20th, 2007 Comments Off
[Thanks to Krafty] Scott Adams liest wohl auch BMJ: Googling for a diagnosis. If you haven’t seen this on Medlib-l today you might want to have a look and laugh.
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 20th, 2007 Comments Off
The Krafty Librarian blog has moved to http://www.kraftylibrarian.com. Please change your bookmarks and update your RSS feed.
Posted in From other blogs, Google, Zukunft on Feb 20th, 2007 Comments Off
Larry Page, the co-founder of Google was talking to a group of scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and mentioned that they were working on developing true Artificial Intelligence. “It’s not as far off as people think” according to Page. He also noted that human DNA represents about 600MB of data [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Wow! Das - faszinierende, aber immerhin hilfreiche - Ergebnis von Yahoo Pipes seht ihr rechts ->
[Thanks to David!]
Posted in From other blogs, Medline on Feb 1st, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber:
Over at Journalology, Matt Hodgkinson reviews a group of third-party tools for searching or mining PubMed.
Posted in From other blogs, Web2.0 on Jan 29th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Lambert:
Obwohl Oliver & Co. dieses Thema bereits abdecken, möchte ich auch hier immer mal wieder auf die rasche Verbreitung und intensive Nutzung von Social Software im Bereich der medizinischen Fachinformationen hinweisen. Die Kollegen Medizinbibliothekare sind dem Rest der Zunft voraus, was solche Entwicklungen angeht. Langer Rede kurzer Sinn, David Rothman zählt in [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Jan 26th, 2007 Comments Off
[Thanks to Biomedbiblog]
Table of contents
Artikel in Auswahl:
Trends in reference usage statistics in an academic health sciences library
Improving e-book access via a library-developed full-text search tool
Continuing use of print-only information by researchers
Posted in From other blogs on Jan 24th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber:
Sarah Washford, Free Journal Articles, Info Junkie, January 22, 2007. Excerpt:
…When we receive an article request in our interlibrary loan department we tend to send it straight to the British Library and usually a quality scan appears in my inbox within 24 hours…. Today I received a list of article requests [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Jan 24th, 2007 Comments Off
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 nr 4
[via Biomedbiblog]
Posted in From other blogs on Jan 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
Auf den Kauf von Blackwell durch Wiley und die sich daraus ergebenden Moeglichkeiten und Gefahren der Nutzung der Alleinstellung im Markt in Bezug auf Preise und Leistungen weisen die aktuellen Offenen Briefe von Bibliotheks- und Wissenschaftsorganisationen hin. Links siehe http://www.zugang-zum-wissen.de/news-jan07.html Eberhard R. Hilf via Inetbib [via OAN]
Posted in From other blogs on Jan 22nd, 2007 Comments Off
Netbib-Gründer Edlef Stabenau erklimmt neue Höhen des Bloggens - Podcasting made easy (and curious)! Besonders gut gefällt mir die Erkennungsmelodie (und sofort saust der Verstand: Welche werde ich mir wohl zulegen?). Podcast wird auf jeden Fall neue Kategorie bei medinfo - und vielleicht podcaste ich auch bald selber.
Posted in From other blogs on Jan 18th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks Biomedbiblog
MedStory - Intelligent Search for Health & Medicine
http://www.medstory.com/
“Medstory's mission is to enable users to search complex fields on
the Web intelligently. We're starting with health and medicine – an
area where many people will appreciate a service that helps them
quickly get high value information, and a field where we have expertise
based on our work with health-related [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Jan 17th, 2007 Comments Off
With thanks from Biomedbiblog: Relemed: Sentence-level search engine with relevance score for the MEDLINE database of biomedical articles. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007,
7:1
“We have developed Relemed, a search engine for MEDLINE. Relemed
increases specificity and precision of retrieval by searching for query
words within sentences rather than the whole article. It uses
sentence-level [...]
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