6 Jan 2006
5 Jan 2006
Journal impacts in evaluating individuals has its inherent dangers
JAMA -- The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor, January 4, 2006, Garfield 295 (1): 90
The use of journal impacts in evaluating individuals has its inherent dangers. In an ideal world, evaluators would read each article and make personal judgments. The recent International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication (http://www.jama-peer.org) demonstrated the difficulties of reconciling such peer judgments.
Ranganathan's Monologue on Melvil Dewey
Ranganathan's Monologue on Melvil Dewey
It's a 1964 recording of the great librarian S.R. Ranganathan giving a fifteen-minute talk about his connections with Melvil Dewey.
Skill Kit - PubMed
NLM Technical Bulletin, Nov–Dec 2005, Skill Kit: Retrieving Citations from a Journal Issue in PubMed®
Skill Kit:
Retrieving Citations from a Journal Issue in PubMed®
Skill Kit articles provide search hints, review system features, and cover data and indexing issues for NLM® databases, expanding your search skills and knowledge.
4 Jan 2006
Tech Tools for Learning
Cable in the Classroom - Access Learning
Tech Tools for Learning
Innovative, interactive technologies provide new potential for learning—in and out of classrooms.
Automated Assessment of the Quality of Depression Websites
Journal of Medical Internet Research - Automated Assessment of the Quality of Depression Websites
Since health information on the World Wide Web is of variable quality, methods are needed to assist consumers to identify health websites containing evidence-based information. Manual assessment tools may assist consumers to evaluate the quality of sites. However, these tools are poorly validated and often impractical. There is a need to develop better consumer tools, and in particular to explore the potential of automated procedures for evaluating the quality of health information on the web.
OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
Open Archives Forum - OAI-PMH Online Tutorial
OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
This tutorial is an introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
Working through this tutorial you will:
* gain an overview of the history behind the OAI-PMH and an overview of its key features;
* achieve a deeper technical insight into how the protocol works;
* learn something about some of the main implementation issues;
* find some useful starting points and hints that will help you as an implementer.
NCBI search toolbar
NCBI Search Toolbar
The NCBI search toolbar is a small program for your Web browser. It allows more convenient searching of the NCBI databases:
* searching through the search box
* searching with the right mouse button
* highlighting search results
It also has shortcuts to NCBI resources.
Soople.com
UBC Google Scholar Blog: Medical search for dummies, Part I
Basic Googling the easy way! Soople.com, though not affiliated with Google, will help you refine your search tasks and teach you the commands. Easy.
3 Jan 2006
Blogger Librarians
PubSub Community Lists: The Librarian List
Librarians have been part of the online environment for decades. It didn't take long for them to get excited about blogs. This list shows the most influential librarian blogs, based on LinkRank.
Google Medicine and Open Access
UBC Google Scholar Blog: Google Medicine and open access - team players in health
href="http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/googlemedicine.pdf">Google Medicine and open access (OA): team players in knowledge-based healthcare - by Dean Giustini, UBC Biomedical librarian
Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre
Open Access News
Story of the OA repository at India's National Informatics Centre
Sukhdev Singh, and Naina Pandita, Building the open access self-archiving repository for the bio-medical sciences at National Informatics Centre, in: National Convention of Medical Library Association of India, November 7-9m 2005, Bangalore, India.
Abstract: Self-Archiving is an important model of the Open Access movement. National Informatics Centre has been providing various services and products to the biomedical community. Building up a Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied sciences was a natural extension of these activities. To make this repository interoperable with other such repositories Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was adopted. The selection of suitable software for the archive was done from OAI-PMH compatible softwares. GNU EPrints was finally selected. A prototype was build for planning of activities, demonstration and checking security aspects. To provide subject-wise browse view to the archive a MeSH based categorization was adopted. A dedicated server was procured and installed in the NIC Network Domain under RedHat Advanced Server Version 3.0. EPrints software was then installed and customized. Making scientists and authors aware of Open Access and its benefits remains a major challenge for any such attempt. However efforts are bearing fruits in the form of Open Self-archiving repository for Bio-medical and Allied Sciences i.e. OpenMED@NIC.
Whiteboard
Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.
Writeboard is perfect for...
Authors, journalists, PR folks, editors, and publishers
Bloggers or freelance/independent writers
Letter writers, songwriters, poets, comedians, creatives
Students, professors, and groups collaborating on a paper
2 Jan 2006
Pharmpedia
Pharmpedia:About - Pharmpedia
Pharmpedia is a free content Pharmaceutical encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit articles, simply by clicking on the edit this page link. It runs on MediaWiki software.
Pharmpedia began on May 1, 2005 by founder Raja Vege,Toronto,Canada and a few enthusiastic pharmacists in Canada, USA and India. As of today, there are 747 articles in English language.
All text in Pharmpedia, and most images and other content, is covered by the Creative Commons License . Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the CCL license ensures the content will remain freely distributable and reproducible
Top 11 Trends for Organizational Learning
Top 11 Trends for Organizational Learning
The Learning Circuits Blog: Top 11 Trends for Organizational Learning
# Blogs
# Wiki's
# Open Source
# IM/VOIP (Instant Messaging/ Voice Over Internet)
# Ambient Information
# Mobile Phones as Content Inputs/Outputs
# Podcasts
# Computer Games driving educational simulations
# Growing Training Budgets
# More Decentralized College Programs
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