MedWorm: Medical RSS & Search Engine

MedWorm (www.medworm.com) is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds.  From the description on MedWorm’s “About” page:
MedWorm collects updates from over 5000 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides new outgoing RSS feeds on various medical [...]

PubMed Saved Searches & Year-End-Processing

Ever wonder why your saved searches / RSS feed searches get a little funny about this time of year?
The latest NLM Technical Bulletin offers some tips for setting up saved searches to weather the year-end MeSH terminology changes. Check it out:
Skill Kit: The Effects of Year End Processing (YEP) on Saved Searches [...]

Tips & tricks for productivity software

We aren’t quite “cubicle dwellers,” but most of us use Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office daily.  For those of us who could use just a little help with these complex programs, CNet’s Peter O’Reilly offers Worker’s Edge, a blog of “tips and tricks for the cubicle-dweller.”
Topics include email, Microsoft Office, Windows, Internet, and Search [...]

Open Access follow-up

Additional links relating to the previous story about University of Michigan’s institutional repository:
Deep Blue repository site at University of Michigan: deepblue.lib.umich.edu/index.jsp . This site includes a search feature as well as information about Deep Blue.
Announcement at Taubman library’s blog: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/tmlnews/archives/2007/11/deep_blue_and_p.html
For an introduction to Open Access, see Peter Suber’s overview: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm . Keep up with open [...]

University of Michigan’s digital repository now available through PubMed

From MLA Focus:
Deep Blue and PubMed LinkOut: A Higher Profile for University of Michigan Research
Researchers who find articles by University of Michigan (UM) authors in PubMed can now directly-and for free-link to the full text using Deep Blue, UM’s digital repository, via PubMed’s LinkOut feature. Deep Blue is an online archive that preserves and provides [...]

ISI Impact Factors

The Krafty Librarian posts about Problems with ISI’s Impact Factor Data. The editors of the Journal of Cell Biology and the Journal of Experimental Medicine have written an editorial reporting their inability to verify published impact factors using data provided by ISI, and they’re questioning the validity of the dataset.
Rossner M, Van Epps [...]

Slide Sharing sites

A few weeks ago, a physician asked me to find a slide-sharing website that he had heard about through word-of-mouth. I came up with Slideshare: www.slideshare.net .
I’ve just run across another: AuthorStream: www.authorstream.com . Like Slideshare, AuthorStream allows presenters to upload and share presentations. The site includes animated presentations and presentations [...]

Medical & Science Cartoons

This cartoon reminds me of a talk I heard today about MRSA:

(From Nearing Zero, by Nick D. Kim. Used by permission.)
Find this and more science cartoons to liven up your presentations at Nearing Zero, which bills itself as “an archive of largely satisfactory cartoon freeware.”

Public Health tip

Member Maureen W.  sends this cautionary link as we plan our holiday travel.
Think before you use your hotel drinking glass:  http://www.snotr.com/video/662

Survival of hospital libraries

Thomas Hill’s editorial in the October Journal of the Medical Library Association offers advice to hospital librarians on surviving the hard times by proving that the library supports the hospital’s mission. The article is online free through PubMedCentral.
Hill T: Fear, concern, fate and hope: survival of hospital libraries. J Med Libr Assoc. 2007 October; 95(4): [...]