Mar
5
OA to clinical data
March 5, 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.
Mar
5
AGMB-Tagung 2007
March 5, 2007 | Comments Off
Von Christiane Wagner: 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
Feb
27
Wiley buys Blackwell: Growing dysfunction in the journal market
February 27, 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 [...]
Feb
26
Five problems with the subscription business model
February 26, 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 [...]
Feb
26
Elsevier’s US lobbying during 2006
February 26, 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 [...]
Feb
20
Three new blogs from BMC
February 20, 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.
Feb
20
Googling a Diagnosis…Dilbert Style
February 20, 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.
Feb
20
The Krafty Librarian Has Moved
February 20, 2007 | Comments Off
The Krafty Librarian blog has moved to http://www.kraftylibrarian.com. Please change your bookmarks and update your RSS feed.
Feb
20
Nach Google Base nun Google Brain?
February 20, 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 [...]
Feb
13
medinfo auf Englisch – automatisch – piped!
February 13, 2007 | Comments Off
Wow! Das – faszinierende, aber immerhin hilfreiche – Ergebnis von Yahoo Pipes seht ihr rechts -> [Thanks to David!]
Feb
1
Third-party tools for PubMed
February 1, 2007 | Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber: Over at Journalology, Matt Hodgkinson reviews a group of third-party tools for searching or mining PubMed.
Jan
29
Medical Wikis en masse
January 29, 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 [...]
Jan
26
Journal of the Medical library Assoc 2007 nr 1
January 26, 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
Jan
24
Looking for OA copies of needed articles
January 24, 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 [...]
Jan
24
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 nr 4
January 24, 2007 | Comments Off
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 nr 4 [via Biomedbiblog]
Jan
23
Wiley kauft Blackwell
January 23, 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]
Jan
22
… und ich quassel da jetzt so rein …
January 22, 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.
Jan
18
MedStory
January 18, 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 [...]
Jan
17
Relemed
January 17, 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 [...]
Jan
17
Gezondheidszorgsystemen in Europa
January 17, 2007 | Comments Off
With thanks to Biomedbiblog: De EU heeft een lijst aangelegd met links naar beschrijving van de gezondheidszorgsystemen in de verschillende landen in Europa. Ze heten voor een groot deel hetzelfde, om een paar van onze buren te noemen: Nederland Health care systems in transition, 2004 Belgie Health care systems in transition, 2000 Duitsland: Health care [...]
