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Dean Giustini likes Marcus’ idea about replacing LIS journals with blogs (see yesterday’s post), but also has concerns:
…my only reservation is when research methods are used such as randomization and the articles would need to go through peer-review.
T. Scott (former editor of the JMLA and one of my favorite contrarians) explains some of his reservations […]

Big day for me. My Electronic Resources Review of BioWizard was published in the JMLA.
BioWizard
David L. Rothman
J Med Libr Assoc. 2008 January; 96(1): 74. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.96.1.74.
| Full Text | PDF–988K
Of course, I just realized that BioWizard has significantly changed its interface since I wrote the review. Dangit.

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I just discovered that the Journal of Medical Internet Research has a page where they feature snippets of (and links to) recent posts from what they call “eHealth Blogs,” including davidrothman.net.

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I knew that the The JAMA Report, “a weekly video and audio medical news service from the Journal of the American Medical Association,” was available from its home page at thejamareport.org, but The MARquee points out that JAMA also posts episodes to Blip.tv at thejamareport.blip.tv. Even better, you can subscribe to these videos as […]

BioMed Central announced on Friday that they’ve launched a YouTube Channel.
In addition to our YouTube channel, we are working with SciVee to ensure the visibility and linking of PubCasts featuring BioMed Central articles. For example, SciVee currently features a pubcast by Apostol Gramada in which he describes the research he published in BMC Bioinformatics.
Berci seems […]

I’m not ashamed to admit that I get a kick out of seeing my name or work in published books or journals.
But the most recent issue of the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (2007, Vol 3, Issue 4) caught me by surprise. Oliver Obst’s “Web 2.0″ column, Notes from […]

Dean Giustini just keeps making his profession look good from the outside, doesn’t he?
University Affairs (”Canada’s magazine on higher education”) features an article on The New Librarians in which Dean is mentioned and quoted.
University of British Columbia’s libraries have also seen dramatic changes. When biomedical branch librarian Dean Giustini joined the UBC library staff 10 […]

Who are the doctor bloggers and what do they want?
Coombes BMJ.2007; 335: 644-645
[Abstract] [Full Text]
Medical blogs are sometimes seen as just rants about the state of health care, but they have also been credited with spreading public understanding of science and rooting out modern day quacks. Rebecca Coombes checks out the medical blogosphere
Lacking full-text access […]

Having already had some success with it’s “Clinical Decisions” experiment (see this post and this post), NEJM has launched another interactive feature called “Perspective Forum.”

The feature establishes a topic of discussion and provides a form in which readers can post their comments.
My initial reaction is a resounding “Meh.” Wouldn’t it be preferable to have […]

New York Times article:
“…Reed Elsevier, which publishes more than 400 medical and scientific journals, is trying an experiment that stands this model on its head. Over the weekend it introduced a Web portal, www.OncologySTAT.com, that gives doctors free access to the latest articles from 100 of its own pricey medical journals and that plans to […]

Nicole Engard points out that SAGE Journals Online is offering free trial access to the following journals through the end of September 2007:

IFLA Journal
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Journal of Information Science
Business Information Review
Information Development
Journal Of Health Informatics

You can register here.

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The New England Journal of Medicine’s new social feature, Clinical Decisions, has closed its call for feedback and posted the results.

You can also view the results by country with this interactive map.
White coat Notes (a Boston Globe blog) notes that Journal voters stray from the evidence.
Readers were given three choices to […]

Where Papers, iPapers, Sente and BibDesk are personal PDF managers, Librarian is a server-side application to allow groups of people to collectively build an annotate a shared PDF library that is managed from inside their Web browsers.
Librarian was designed to enable a small trusted group of researchers to create an annotated virtual library of articles […]

From The Boston Globe:
For the first time, physicians will be asked to weigh in on what they would do for a patient, based on research papers published in the current issue and what they read about a fictitious case. Their choices will be tallied online for four weeks and their comments posted in an experiment […]

You might remember this post about an OS X application for managing PDFs using metadata from PubMed- the application is called iPapers.
Ars Technica recently reviewed an application for OS X with some awfully similar features called Papers

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From the Papers site:
Introducing Papers…
Do you have dozens of PDF files from your favorite […]

On Feb 12th, Doris Samojluk posted to MEDLIB-L an updated checklist for finding free full-text articles online. I tucked it away for later reference, but there was one resource I didn’t see mentioned that I thought should have been: PubMed Gold
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Created by MLIS student Shawn Thomas, PubMed Gold is an alternative search interface for […]

This presentation by John Battelle* is from December of 2005, but is still absolutely worth reading through. This slide, for instance.

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* - If you’re not familiar with John Battelle, see his blog, his book and his company, Federated Media.

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Interesting article from Information World Review.
Some excerpts:
Tom Coates, a technologist from Yahoo Technology Development, kicks off by summing up the disruption in attitude that is affecting information providers. “It’s in your interests as an author, researcher or scientist to get your work read, so you slap it on the internet, but that is not in […]

This makes me want to get a Mac for our hospital library.
iPapers helps you manage all those PDFs. Name the PDF with the PubMed ID, and iPapers will pull all the metadata about each into its interface for you.

In case you don’t get the idea: Have you ever opened a music file (like […]

BioMed Central Open Access Colloquium
Open Access: How Can We Achieve Quality and Quantity?
Location: The Royal College of Physicians, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE, UK
Feed of all podcasts

Detail and links to individual audio files (Many also have accompanying slides)

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