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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 systems [...]

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Thanks to Peter Suber:
Authoratory is a tool for data-mining information about authors with articles cited on PubMed Central.  From the site:
The content of Authoratory is produced by analyzing large amounts of data from PubMed….
Authoratory data-mining techniques make it possible to discover new information about the authors - the information that is not apparent by reviewing [...]

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Ein Artikel aus Biomedical Digital Libraries
Background:
Medical practice today requires evaluating large amounts of information which should be available at all times. This information is found most easily in a digital form. Some information has already been evaluated for validity (evidence based medicine sources) and some is in unevaluated form (paper and online journals). In order [...]

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Mary Carmen Chimato wrote: In light of medical librarian month, I thought this was a fitting story:
A student came to the reference desk yesterday asking for journal articles on “Topic X.” It became readily apparent that he wanted me to conduct the database search and print him out an article. I politely explained [...]

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Krafty wrote: Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the issues with electronic journals are enough to drive a person to drink heavily and unfortunately I am left smelling the wine cork until I have my second child (hopefully soon). My latest battle has been with my LWW titles. I scrimped and pinched my budget this year [...]

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Genialer Werbeclip! Thanks to Alexia!

I was directed to this great commercial that the Fulton County Public Library made.  What a great idea!  While most hospital libraries don’t have the money or other resources to make a TV commercial why not go with a print campaign or work with your marketing department to come up with [...]

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Krafty wrote [Thanks!]: I just got the table of contents for the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries and was immediately drawn to this, Beyond Password Protection: Methods for Remote Patron Authentication, B Douglas Blansit in Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries Volume: 4 Issue: 1/2.
Abstract:Today’s patrons expect 24-hour access to materials [...]

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Dean wrote [Thanks!]: Giustini D. How Web 2.0 is changing medicine: is a medical wikipedia the next step?. British Medical Journal. Xmas Issue. December 23rd, 2006 “Few concepts in information technology create more confusion than Web 2.0. The truth is that Web 2.0 is a difficult term to define, even for web experts…”…

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Peter Suber wrote [Thanks!]:
Anna Winterbottom, BMC branches out: an interview with Matthew Cockerill and Chris Leonard, First Author, undated but c. January 6, 2007.  Excerpt:
BioMed Central (BMC)…has…continued to expand its range of services, most notably by launching two new portals that apply the BioMed Central model to the physical and chemical sciences. Chemistry Central [...]

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Peter Suber wrote:
David L. Schriger, Sripha Ouk, and Douglas G. Altman, The Use of the World Wide Web by Medical Journals in 2003 and 2005: An Observational Study, Pediatrics, January 2007.  (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)  Abstract:

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Related Articles

Integrating and promoting medical podcasts into the library collection.
Med Ref Serv Q. 2007;26(1):27-35
Authors: Kraft M
Podcasts offer a way for medical professionals to listen to current information in medicine from an iPod, MP3 player, handheld device, or computer. As podcasts become more popular, libraries may be interested in integrating programs into the library collection. [...]

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Medical librarian 2.0.
Med Ref Serv Q. 2007;26(1):1-15
Authors: Connor E
Web 2.0 refers to an emerging social environment that uses various tools to create, aggregate, and share dynamic content in ways that are more creative and interactive than transactions previously conducted on the Internet. The extension of this social environment to libraries, sometimes called Library [...]

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