Posted on August 29, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
Susannah Fox at Pew Internet & American Life reflects on a recent JAMA commentary, “Web Surfing for information about physicians.“ (JAMA 2008;300(2):213-215.) Much of the article urging people to monitor and manage the information available about them online, she notes, could apply to any profession. However, the authors of this piece, from the Departments of Psychiatry [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2008 by hmschroeder
Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for requesting free NLM Duplicates books, Friday August 29th, is just around the corner. Please check the list to see what titles are still available: http://www.mhsla.org/purchasing.htm.
If you’re interested in receiving any of these remaining titles, please submit the following in an email to Heidi Schroeder (hschroed@msu.edu): title(s) of [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by hmschroeder
The online registration form for Vital Signs, the Midwest MLA/MHSLA 2008 Conference, is now available! Visit http://www.mdmlg.org/midwest/registration.htm to register. Payments for registration may be made by credit card or check. Whether paying by credit card or check, please fill out the online form. When you get to the end of the form, click on [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
I had lunch with a group of medical librarians & library staff last month, and we started comparing our most memorable adventures. I took my son skydiving for his 23rd birthday; Mary has a medal for ziplining in Alaska; Etta’s a world traveler, telling us about visiting tunnels in the Holy Land excavated by soldiers in [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Sandy Swanson
Cognition Technologies offers a free semantic search engine pulling results from Medline abstracts. They call it Semantic Medline, or Medline.Cognition; it has two URLs, http://www.semanticmedline.com/ and http://medline.cognition.com/ . The help page delineates the proper use of capitalization, quote marks, Boolean, proximity, pattern matching, wildcards, and required vs. optional search words for Cognition searching.
An interesting feature: [...]
Filed under: Databases, Search Engines | Tagged: Cognition Technologies, Medline, Pubmed, Search Engines, semantic web | 1 Comment »