Web 2.0 tools for medicine

Dean Giustini at University of British Columbia’s UBC Academic Search – Google Scholar Blog has posted Top Web 2.0 services for Medicine 2008 – a list of 75 tools most often mentioned by bloggers or traditional media.  Categories of tools include:

Academic science (social networking)
Bookmarking & info management
Consumer health (social networking)
Medicine (social networking)
Microblogging, aggregation, searching
Open knowledge-sharing [...]

Marketing ideas from Gale

Gale’s blog, The Sizzle, offers 10 ways to help you drive usage, a Powerpoint presentation (in PDF format) of marketing suggestions.  Many of the “rules” have application beyond promoting Gale databases.
For example, “Rule #1: Unleash your databases with widgets.”   A few widgets to consider adding to your library webpage:

A PubMed searchbox. Here’s the copy-and-paste [...]

Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs for 2008

Time magazine has published its 2008 top 10 lists online.
Medical breakthroughs:

First Neurons Created from ALS Patients
Inflammation vs. Cholesterol
Scarless Surgery
Genomes for the Masses
New Genes for Alzheimer’s
A Five-in-One Vaccine
Gene Screens for Breast Cancer
Blood Test for Down Syndrome
Seasick Patch for Cancer Patients
Stem-Cell Trachea Transplant

via ScienceRoll

Health Sciences Online (HSO)

Health Sciences Online (http://hso.info) is a new information portal for health professionals.  The search engine currently links to more than 50,000 free resources including courses, lectures, guidelines, handbooks, open access articles, ebooks, image galleries,  and more.  The goal is to facilitate access to authoritative, comprehensive, free, ad-free health knowledge sources for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and [...]

Online Drug Information: Wikipedia vs. Medscape

A study in this month’s Annals of Pharmacotherapy compares freely available drug information in two Internet resources: user-edited Wikipedia and the “traditionally edited pharmacy-practice-specific” Medscape Drug Reference. While the information in Wikipedia was generally accurate, researchers report serious “errors of omission” in safety-related areas such as drug interactions, risks related to pregnancy, and adverse drug [...]

New edition of Jablonski’s Dictionary of Medical Acronyms

Teton Data announces that the 6th edition of Jablonski’s Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations is now available in STAT!Ref. Formerly titled  Dictionary of Medical Acronyms, this reference now provides an expanded symbols section, which makes it easier to identify seldom-used symbols.
Many MHSLA members participate in a group purchase of STAT!Ref, coordinated by MHSLA’s Group [...]

Tables of Contents in your feed reader

Organization Monkey alerts us to ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service, which promises an easy way to scan tables of contents from your choice of over 11,000 scholarly journals from 414 publishers.  According to the ticTOC site:
The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep [...]

Health podcasts

The Emerging Technology Librarian has posted a list of health podcasts and  podcast directories, ranging from NPR’s Science Friday to  Johns Hopkins Medicine.   Sites such as Podcast Directory: Health are especially useful as our patrons look for media in their own specialties.

Free NLM Duplicates Books for MHSLA Members

The MHSLA Resource Sharing Committee has been collecting books from the National Library of Medicine’s Duplicates Program to distribute to interested MHSLA Members. A new list of titles is available here: http://www.mhsla.org/members/purchasing/NLMDuplicates120508.doc. These books are available to your libraries free of charge – you don’t even have to pay for shipping!
Please review the book list [...]