News, Scientific Literature, Bioinformatics, Search Technologies: MedlineRanker

Anyone who works with geneticists and biomedical researchers already knows that learning the language of their science is daunting for a non-scientist to understand. This international community has developed dozens of highly specific databases, data-mining software and cooperative, collective digital libraries for their own use.  In an approximate sense, one could even imagine the mapping [...]

News, Scientific Literature, Visualization: Cell Press and Elsevier introduce Article of the Future

STM publishers Cell Press and Elsevier ratcheted up the technological ante this month with their announcement on Monday, Jul 20 2009, of a shared project called Article of the Future, which they are funding to provide: “… an on-going collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online. The project’s [...]

The Friday Post #35: Renaissance Medicine at NLM, Harry Potter and 2 Quizzes

So excited about going to see the fifth movie based on J.K. Rowling‘s work, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was released in the U.S. on July 15th at midnight.  I’ve read every book in the series at least twice. A timely exhibition by the librarians from the U.S. National Library of Medicine features [...]

Searching Technologies, Cultural Evolution, Web 2.0: Slight Nostalgia for Olden Days, and Don’t Diss Librarians

” Tis far better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. “ -Quote variously attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Galileo, Socrates and Abraham Lincoln ” You get the network that you deserve. “ -Written by Brian Morressey _____________________________ Being in the library/information business for more than a decade has [...]

News, Managed Care, Connecticut: Universal Health Care? Not This Year

Reporter Jacob Goldstein on the Health Care Blog at the Wall Street Journal on Jul 9 2009 featured an article about Connecticut governor, Jodi Rell, who this week – citing costs and a looming deficit – vetoed health reform bills for the state, as also reported by the Hartford Courant (Jul 9 2009). For more [...]

News, Medicine 2.0, Current Awareness: The debut of Clinical Reader

.Photo credit: http://www.clinicalreader.com – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 Clinical Reader, introduced Jun 29 2009 in beta, is getting a lot of buzz* on Twitter, blogs and librarian discussion lists.  Thanks to librarians posting about it on Medlib-L listserv and to Berci for blogging about it. Following is an excerpt from their About page: [...]

Happy Fourth of July!

Have a happy and safe Fourth of July !

News, Searching the Medical Literature: Two Expert Opinions on Searching, or PubMed and Beyond

Today is a great day to highlight the recent posts of two fellow medical bloggers:  the first is from Laika’s MedLibLog, written by a Dutch research-scientist/medical-librarian; the second post is from Life in the Fast Lane, a blog written collectively by a group of Australian physicians. Each author has written definitive posts about the mechanics [...]