Presentation noted by Peter Suber's Blog

My presentation Bio-Medical Information Retrieval from Net finds mention in Peter Suber, Open Access News.

Educational fair use today

Educational fair use today, by Mr. Jonathan Band, JD.

.."Three recent appellate decisions concerning fair use should give educators and librarians greater confidence and guidance for asserting this important privilege. In all three decisions, the courts permitted extensive copying and display in the commercial context because the uses involved repurposing and recontextualization. The reasoning of these opinions could have far-reaching implications in the educational environment"..

HubPages

HubPages - where you can easily publish information on a topic you love to write about.

Academic Commons

Academic Commons aims to share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology.

About RSS

RSS Specifications and RSS Feeds - A reference site detailing about RSS

A new Medline exploration approach

An active visual search interface for Medline. [Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf. 2007]

A new Medline exploration approach by incorporating interactive visualization together with powerful grouping, summary, sorting and active external content retrieval functions.

Google Profile

About the Google Profile

A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products — it lets you tell others a bit more about who you are and what you're all about. You control what goes into your Google Profile, sharing as much (or as little) as you'd like.

Open Journal System (OJS) 2.2 Released

Version 2.2 of Open Journal System - an open source software to manage publication of scholarly journals has been Released. It has improved the metadata storage and has support for numerous external packages and services such as OpenAds, phpMyVisites, and Google Analytics.

Free Government Information (FGI)

I like the tag line "Government Information needs to be Free" of Free Government Information (FGI) - an initiative taken by three Librarians.

Free Government Information (FGI) | Because government information needs to be free

.."Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information"..

Cataloging and metadata pilot by OCLC

OCLC to conduct new cataloging and metadata pilot [OCLC]

.."OCLC is conducting a pilot project to explore the viability and efficiency of capturing metadata from publishers and vendors upstream and enhancing that metadata in WorldCat, an approach that could provide added value to libraries and publishers by enhancing and delivering data that can work in multiple contexts and systems"..

Knols by Google

Official Google Blog: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge - Google has announced that they have started inviting a selected group of people to try their new, free tool "knol", which stands for a unit of knowledge.

.."Knols will include strong community tools. People will be able to submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on. Anyone will be able to rate a knol or write a review of it. Knols will also include references and links to additional information. At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads"..

Guide to the surgical literature

Users' guide to the surgical literature: how to us...[Can J Surg. 2007] - PubMed Result

Users' guide to the surgical literature: how to use a decision analysis - Free Full text of the article is available.

Medical Informatics and Decision Making Journal

BioMed Central | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in information management, systems and technology in healthcare and the study of medical decision making. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (ISSN 1472-6947) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.

Hand Book of Medical Informatics

Hand Book of Medical Informatics (free web version). Edited by J.H. van Bemmel, Erasmus University, Rotterdam and M.A. Musen, Stanford University, Stanford.

It covers Data, Information and Computers. Coding and classification of Patient Data. Patient-Centered Information Systems and Medical Knowledge and Decision Support. Strategies for Medical Knowledge Acquisition; Hospital Information Systems; Health Information Resources and Methodology for Information Processing . It also includes a chapter on Medical Informatics as a Profession including Education, Training and International Developments in Medical Informatics.

This free web version of the Handbook has not been updated since 1999. The latest edition (2007) of this handbook is publised from Springer.

Open Access Calendar 2008

Key Perspectives. Consultants to the scholarly information industry. Publishing consultants. Open access.

A 2008 Open Access calendar, created by Alma Swan, is now available. [Thanks Rupak Chakravarty]