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NHS Evidence: 3 months on1 comment

Hanna wrote 4 months ago: Went to update workshop held by London Links (no not the bespoke jewellers ahem) and had update on N … more →

Tags: clinical librarian, Searching, Libraries, NHS Evidence

Has our wish come true?

Danielle wrote 7 months ago: OvidSP has just sent out an email to its valued customers describing a couple of updates that it wil … more →

Tags: survey, Interface design, ovidsp, OvidSP Tips, screen real estate, Accessibility

Connotea

Danielle wrote 8 months ago: Those of you on the bleeding edge of reference management technology will know all about Connotea.  … more →

Tags: social networking, connotea, Reference Management, Reference Manager, Citations

What I don't not like: health search engines13 comments

Danielle wrote 9 months ago: If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am picky. Given the plethora of websites, reso … more →

Tags: Cochrane Library, CUIL, kallout, NLH, Ovid, Search Engines, StumbleUpon, tripdatabase

Misspellings in keywords2 comments

Danielle wrote 9 months ago: Just now I was hoping to find a resource to help me find out what medical words are frequently missp … more →

Tags: fuzzy matching, indexing, keywords, medical dictionaries, misspellings, mondofacto, Synonyms

Why are there not more clincial question answering services out there?1 comment

Alan wrote 10 months ago: PLoS ONE have recently published an RCT that showed that ‘Just in time’ Information, pro … more →

Tags: How to work better, blackberry, clinical question answering service, PLoS ONE, librarians

Reflective writing - a friday afternoon experiment

Alan wrote 11 months ago: Well this blog hasn’t been updated for a while, has it? Danielle is busy looking for work (or … more →

Tags: How to work better, Google, Literature Searching, HILJ, Haika, relective practice

Preserving web resources – new advisory handbook from JISC

Alan wrote 11 months ago: Been a bit of a busy week in office land. Just time though to give you a little pointer to what migh … more →

Tags: Knowledge Management, Information Industry, Podcasts, Guidelines, JISC, Libraries, preserving web resources, online archiving, Google generation

HILJ celebrate 25 years with a wiki

Alan wrote 1 year ago: HILJ is celebrating 25 years and you can contribute to their wiki here. They’ll take the best … more →

Tags: Wiki, HILJ

LILACS--worth another look?2 comments

Danielle wrote 1 year ago: Whiting et al have done an elegant little study on database coverage for studies of test accuracy.  … more →

Tags: Databases, Lilacs, Literature Searching, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Whiting P, test accuracy, Search Filters, Filter

HLG Poster on Ovid SP redesign and how we adapted3 comments

Danielle wrote 1 year ago: Let me warn you that the following might count as shameless self-promotion. I have caved and uploade … more →

Tags: HLG 2008, survey, HLG, Health Libraries Group, Ovid SP, Ovid, Databases, Website Design, website redesign

Medicine 2.0: definition3 comments

Danielle wrote 1 year ago: The UBC Academic search Blog has also blogged on an open source paper by Hughes et al in JMIR about … more →

Tags: Web 2.0 & all that, Web 2.0, health 2.0, blogs, Medicine 2.0, definitions, Wikis, Glossary, JMIR

Open access boosts readership but not citations

Alan wrote 1 year ago: An RCT in the BMJ suggests that while open access articles might get viewed more often, they are not … more →

Tags: Information Industry, Randomized Controlled Trial, open access, citation analysis, BMJ

Health Libraries Group (HLG) Conference Update3 comments

Danielle wrote 1 year ago: I’m back, sort of, after 2 weeks of vacation, traveling about with my younger sister. Today I … more →

Tags: How to work better, HLG 2008, CILIP, HLG, Conference, Wales, cardiff, Alan Fricker, Andrew Booth

Synonyms and searches

Danielle wrote 1 year ago: I just spent a quarter of an hour finding a synonym for the medical/ biological term ‘catch-up … more →

Tags: Memory, Synonyms, Searching

Clinical librarians - evidence of efficacy?

Alan wrote 1 year ago: A case control study at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Centre suggests that patients tre … more →

Tags: clinical librarian

RCT librarian shame

Alan wrote 1 year ago: The open access, online journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, recently reviewed a … more →

Tags: Randomized Controlled Trial, clinical librarian

Friday at the OLA Super Conference 2008

Library Playground wrote 1 year ago: After being exhausted from trying to handle two days at my first OLA Super Conference (1, 2) I decid … more →

Tags: Google, Copyright, Library Associations, Library 2.0, information literacy, google book search, Second-Life, ola, Blackboard/WebCT

What is EBL?

vahidehzg wrote 1 year ago: Evidence-based librarianship (EBL) is an approach to information science that promotes the collectio … more →

Tags: Evidence-Based Library Practice, library trend


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