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Notes on the #mlamobile Webcast (Questions and Comments)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So, we had just decided that we should encourage people to tweet about the Webcast using a hashtag and we jumped online to announce it…and discovered Nikki Dettmar had beaten us to it by a few minutes. GMTA, Nikki. Anyway, it has been a lot of fun reading the tweets and I’m so grateful to those who participated for providing such useful, fun, fast feedback. Some tweets I found interesting: BerrymanD Great content today. Would recommend that, in the future, we skip the history lesson and go directly to the current content. #mlamobile Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:38 +0000 – tweet id 5837056058 – 552 Do...
Source: davidrothman.net - November 19, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Mobile Technology Source Type: blogs

Webcast Tomorrow on Twitter: #mlamobileEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So we’re in Chicago getting ready for the Webcast tomorrow. We just figured out that we want people to be able to submit questions or discuss the Webcast on Twitter, so use the hashtag #mlamobile to do so. Thanks! -David, Bart, Max, and Emily (Nikki set up an archive for these tweets at Twapper Keeper.) _______________ Feed-only Footer: Hey! You’re reading this in an aggregator of some kind! [sarcasm]Haven’t you heard that RSS is dead?[/sarcasm] (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - November 17, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Mobile Online Social Networks Technology Source Type: blogs

[UPDATED] Another Question about ‘Clinical Reader’ …and the NEJMEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[UPDATE: 11/12/2009] Got a call from Tom Richardson at the NEJM (who I saw play with the Bearded Pigs at MLA 2008!). According to Tom, NEJM has no arrangement with Clinical Reader and did not license their content to Clinical Reader. So it appears that Clinical Reader is again violating copyright. [/UPDATE] So, Clinical Reader shows video content from the NEJM, including a video on chest tube insertion (yeah, the same one I blogged about a ways back). I thought this was odd. After all, if you go to the NEJM’s home for this video, it clearly says one needs a subscription to view the content. Hmmm. So I decided to loo...
Source: davidrothman.net - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: E-Journals For Medical Libraryfolk Video Source Type: blogs

Another Question about ‘Clinical Reader’ …and the NEJMEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So, Clinical Reader shows video content from the NEJM, including a video on chest tube insertion (yeah, the same one I blogged about a ways back). I thought this was odd. After all, if you go to the NEJM’s home for this video, it clearly says one needs a subscription to view the content. Hmmm. So I decided to look around for any notes from either organization that would indicate Clinical Reader is using this video content with permission. Didn’t find it. Also didn’t find any published terms under which NEJM offered to license it. My curiosity piqued, I decided to poke around more to see if anyone else wa...
Source: davidrothman.net - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: E-Journals For Medical Libraryfolk Video Source Type: blogs

Vlogging: ‘Library 101′ and the ALEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’ve never videoblogged before and I’m not sure I’ll ever do it again, but it was fun to try. Please see embedded YouTube video below. Links mentioned in the embedded video above: http://davidrothman.net/category/library-20/ http://www.libraryman.com/blog/essays-on-101/ _______________ Feed-only Footer: Have you checked out our book yet? (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - November 5, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Library 2.0 Social Software Perception of Libraries/Librarians Technology Video Source Type: blogs

New PubMed Video (U of Manitoba)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: davidrothman.net - October 24, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Search Technology Video Source Type: blogs

Got my H1N1 VaccinationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I got my 2009 H1N1 live, attenuated (nasal spray) vaccine today. I continue to be surprised by how many otherwise rational people (including health professionals) are frightened by the prospect. For the record: If New York State law did not require me to get both the seasonal and the H1N1 vaccine, I would get both anyway. I’ve avoided commenting on the media coverage of Swine Flu. Why bother when Jon Stewart does it better? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - October 22, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Fun Video Source Type: blogs

Mayo’s LibBlog Shows You How to Use My NCBIEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Melissa Rethlefsen does it again with another great screencast: [via: http://liblog.mayo.edu/2009/10/13/video-tutorial-my-ncbi-custom-filters-and-sharing-collections/] Melissa rules. _______________ Feed-only Footer: [This space for rent] Want to reach about 3,500 RSS subscribers to this feed? Please get in touch. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - October 14, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk How to Medical Librarianship Blogs Search Teaching/Training Technology Video Source Type: blogs

Harvard Medical School’s HMS Mobile | iPhone Apps for Public HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Harvard Medical School Presents HMS Mobile and Announces Plans to Launch iPhone Applications Aimed at Promoting Public Health Boston, MA, October 09, 2009 –(PR.com)– The Harvard Health Publications Division of Harvard Medical School announced today that it will launch a new program called HMS Mobile to deliver a series of iPhone Applications aimed at promoting public health. The first such application will focus on the H1N1 flu pandemic and is scheduled for release to the public in early October. These applications will leverage Harvard Medical School’s extensive knowledge along with its long-standing experti...
Source: davidrothman.net - October 9, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Mobile Technology Source Type: blogs

New PubMed Handouts from the NNLMEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Oh, thank goodness. I’ve been fretting about how my library’s patrons will react to the PubMed redesign, so I’m grateful for the revised tri-fold handouts from the NNLM- they’ll probably help ease a few concerns. The new handouts are available in .doc and .pdf formats and include: Full Text and PubMed PubMed Basics PubMed My NCBI Searching PubMed with MeSH [via The Cornflower] If you’ve prepared any materials to help your patrons (or your staff) use the new PubMed and you’d like to share them with others, please let me know in the comments? _______________ Feed-only Footer: Twitter a...
Source: davidrothman.net - October 6, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Search Technology Source Type: blogs

LigerCatEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a recent comment, Creaky (Kathleen Crea) made me aware of LigerCat, a 3rd-Party PubMed/MEDLINE tool that is new to me. I’m really enjoying working with it.1 I’m sure that more experienced Medical Libraryfolk don’t have to do this, but as I start putting together a lit search, I often start by going to the MeSH Browser http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html to begin working out what MeSH terms I might be working with. Alternately, I might go to Novo|Seek or GoPubMed with a few key words to get a frequency analysis of MeSH terms. In these examples, I’m doing some preliminary searching on Acute D...
Source: davidrothman.net - October 1, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: 3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tools For Medical Libraryfolk Search Technology Source Type: blogs

PubMed PreviewEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pubmed First impression: TONS of wasted screen real estate on that front page. What do you think? (Thanks to Patricia Anderson for the heads up!) Patricia’s take is here. _______________ Feed-only Footer: You can follow me on Friendfeed or Twitter if you want to- but be aware there’s lots of stuff there that may not be related to libraries or health information. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - September 30, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Source Type: blogs

Test post from iPod TouchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Huh. Neat. _______________ Feed-only Footer: Hey! You’re reading this in an aggregator of some kind! [sarcasm]Haven’t you heard that RSS is dead?[/sarcasm] (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - September 25, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Technology Testing Source Type: blogs

CiteSmart (3rd-Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tool)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CiteSmart is a citation software specifically developed for PubMed users to faciliate the writing of manuscripts and other academic documents. With CiteSmart, retrieving references from PubMed is just a click away. This revolutionary software has many new features not found anywhere else. You will be able to: * Search PubMed from your Word document. * Insert a citation directly into your document from Internet Explorer. These two features will save an enormous amount of time. It reduces extraneous clicking and the need to create a database of references. CiteSmart handles it all! Anyone care to try it and write up a pr...
Source: davidrothman.net - September 18, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: 3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tools For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Source Type: blogs

EBSCO’s Free Influenza PortalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New to me. EBSCO has a portal for free information on the ‘flu from Due to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, the EBSCO Publishing Medical and Nursing editors of DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™ (NRC) and Patient Education Reference Center™ (PERC) have made key influenza information from these resources freely available to health care providers worldwide. The editorial teams will monitor the research and update these resources continuously throughout the upcoming flu season. _______________ Feed-only Footer: Have you checked out our book yet? (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - September 11, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs

‘Qualities’ not ‘Quality’ – Text Analysis Methods to Classify Consumer Health WebsitesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Guocai Chen, Jim Warren, Joanne Evans. ‘Qualities’ not ‘Quality’ – Text Analysis Methods to Classify Consumer Health Websites. electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 2009; 4(1): e5. Abstract There is an increasing need to help health consumers to achieve timely, differentiated access to quality online healthcare resources. This paper describes and evaluates methods for automated classification of consumer health Web content with respect to qualitative attributes relevant to the preferences of individual health consumers. This is illustrated in the context of identifying breast cancer consumer web pages that ar...
Source: davidrothman.net - September 10, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk Source Type: blogs

Ohio State University Medical Center: On Using the iPhone and iTouchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: davidrothman.net - September 9, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Video Source Type: blogs

Lin On PubGet and 3rd Party PubMed ToolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Since I don’t have the option of implementing PubGet (previously mentioned) at my place of work, getting to read about the experiences that others have had with it is a treat. Over at Up to the Waves, Lin shares her observations. Lin also writes, however: Pubget is only one of the 3rd party life science search engines that tries to create shortcut to search PubMed. If you are a serious researcher, my advise is using the 3rd party search engines with caution or as a pre-search. Getting comfortable and familiar using PubMed itself is your goal. If you need assistance using PubMed, contact your medical librarians. I ca...
Source: davidrothman.net - September 7, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: 3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tools E-Journals For Medical Libraryfolk Search Technology Source Type: blogs

LOLpharm (Friday Fun)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
via: http://leavesamark.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/lolpharma/ (Thanks to Sarah for pointing this out.) _______________ Feed-only Footer: I still think it is a huge waste of resources for a library to invest any time or money in a Second Life presence. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - September 4, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Fun Source Type: blogs

Physician Rating Sites: Pew-pew-pew!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bleah. Yet another article about Web sites for rating doctors. Is anyone else really tired of seeing these articles and pretending these sites matter? They might one day, but they don’t now. Anyway, the Pew Internet and American Life Project (Please tell me I’m not the only one who quietly thinks “pew-pew-pew!” to himself every time Pew is mentioned?) says: Nearly half (47%) of internet users, or 35% of adults, have turned to the internet for information about doctors or other health professionals.” Nothing surprising there. “These health information seekers, however, are not likely to ...
Source: davidrothman.net - September 3, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Social Software Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Source Type: blogs

All Your HealthBase Are Belong to Us (Updated 9/3/2009)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[Update] The folks at Netbase have issued an apology: Our first release of healthBase yesterday surfaced a few embarrassing and offensive bugs. These were far in the minority of results but enough to keep us up late improving the site. We sincerely regret and apologize in particular for any offense caused. …I wasn’t offended. I just thought the tool was awful. [/Update] TechCrunch called healthBase “The Ultimate Medical Content Search Engine.” I beg to differ. Rather than getting into what it is supposed to do, lets just try a few queries and see how its semantic technologies perform. First, a sear...
Source: davidrothman.net - September 2, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Search Technology Source Type: blogs

All Your HealthBase Are Belong to Us (Want ‘em back?)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
TechCrunch called healthBase “The Ultimate Medical Content Search Engine.” I beg to differ. Rather than getting into what it is supposed to do, lets just try a few queries and see how its semantic technologies perform. First, a search for causes of AIDS. As a Red Sea Pedestrian myself, I’m fascinated to learn that Jews cause AIDS. Huh. What if I was a Jewish Physiotherapist? How would I live with myself? Next, we’ll look at the “Pros & Cons of lithotripsy”: Take a look at the “Pros” list. These are just partial phrases describing what lithotripsy is. This list of pros ...
Source: davidrothman.net - September 2, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Search Technology Source Type: blogs

Pharma LinkdumpEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pharma items that caught my attention over the last couple of months: http://itp.pharmacy.dal.ca/Scenarios/Pumed_searching_for_.php Great tutorial from the Dalhousie University College of Pharmacy on searching for drug information in PubMed. http://therapeuticseducation.org/ Produced by UBC Faculty The main goal of the Therapeutics Education Collaboration (TEC) is to provide physicians, pharmacists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, other health professionals, and the public with current, evidence-based, practical and relevant information on rational drug therapy. The overall philosophy of the TEC is to en...
Source: davidrothman.net - September 2, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Technology Source Type: blogs

Web Geekery in Recent Literature, 9/1/2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Welcome to another installment of Web Geekery in Recent Literature, where we point out recent articles in the indexed literature of potential interest to the Geeky and Web-obsessed. Plagiarism of online material may be proven using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (archive.org). PMID: 19716663 Many writers and researchers are reluctant to publish online for fear that their work will be plagiarized and used without attribution elsewhere. For example, junior or freelance researchers may worry that their ideas will be ’stolen’ and published under the name of professional or senior researchers; and that then it...
Source: davidrothman.net - September 1, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Social Software Online Social Networks Technology Web Geekery in Recent Literature Source Type: blogs

Understanding Medical Tests with Wolfram|AlphaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I thought Wolfram|Alpha was pretty neat when I first heard about it and looked over the examples of its potential use in Health and Medicine, but I didn’t really give it another look until I stumbled across this post from the Wolfram|Alpha blog, “Understanding Medical Tests with Wolfram|Alpha”. Bookmarked for later potential use. Have you checked out our book yet? Here are a few other books I think are essential. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - September 1, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Source Type: blogs

Google CSE: Search Hospital Web SitesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ed Bennett (previously mentioned here) has come up with another interesting and useful Google CSE for searching the Web sites of over 2,800 hospitals. If you prefer the interface, you can also try it from its Google start page. Have you checked out our book yet? Here are a few other books I think are essential. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - September 1, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: CSEs For Medical Libraryfolk Search Technology Source Type: blogs

Sites for Flu-TrackingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
MakeUseOf features five sites for tracking Flu online: Google Flu Trends FluTrackers The DoD Worldwide Influenza Surveillance Program World Health Organization Centers for Disease Control _______ Other posts on this site about ‘Flu (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - August 31, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Source Type: blogs

Radiopaedia for the iPhoneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Radiopaedia (previously mentioned here) has made available (at no charge via the iPhone App Store) a Radiopaedia Radiology Teaching File of “50 CNS cases comprising 170 images, questions and detailed text.” Neat. Still, I’d like to know how many health infomation wikis are set up to deliver a mobile version for a variety of mobile browsers. This reminds me: I’m going to need to do an update on my list of medical wikis in the near future. If you know of any that I don’t have listed, please leave a comment or drop me an email? Have you checked out our book yet? Here are a few other books I thin...
Source: davidrothman.net - August 27, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Social Software For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Wikis Source Type: blogs

The AMA Has an e-book StrategyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[Press Release] “In addition, because medical knowledge advances at a more rapid pace than the regular print publishing cycles, iPublishCentral gives us the ability to provide more frequent text updates to our most popular books without the added expenses of a new print run.” For instance, the e-book version of Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, sixth edition, contains clarifications and corrections that were not defined until after the book published. The AMA has recently reprinted the book and is using this opportunity to introduce its existing customer base to the electronic version. Direct pu...
Source: davidrothman.net - August 27, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Source Type: blogs

e-Patients VideoEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some interesting numbers. Not sure about the rest. Have you checked out our book yet? Here are a few other books I think are essential. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - August 21, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Social Software Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk Online Social Networks Technology Video Source Type: blogs

Awesome MedLib Blog: PubMed Search StrategiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This kind of blog is sooooo useful to searchers like me who are clearly less experienced and expert than the author of PubMed Search Strategies, Cindy Schmidt, M.D., M.L.S. “This blog has been created to share PubMed search strategies. Search strategies posted here are not perfect. They are posted in the hope that others will benefit from the work already put into their creation and/or will offer suggestions for improvements. Librarians who wish to post comments on this blog or who wish to become authors are invited to e-mail me.” Example post shown below: [via: Melissa Rethlefsen and Mark Rabnett] Have you ch...
Source: davidrothman.net - August 18, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Medical Librarianship Blogs Teaching/Training Technology Source Type: blogs

Trial-XEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This blog has looked at Clinical Trial search tools previously. Some highlights included: Healia ClinicalTrials.gov A GoogleBase interface World Health Organization Also useful for non-clinician is the MedlinePlus page on clinical trials. Trial-X does a couple of things differently. First is that it seems Trial-X can gather your demographic information and diagnosis from your Google Health account or your Microsoft HealthVault account and apply it to your clinical trial search. Second is that the search criteria one can apply is far more detailed than in any of the other search tools I’ve seen. Then it maps you...
Source: davidrothman.net - August 13, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Search Technology Source Type: blogs

PubMed-EXEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
is a really interesting Firefox Add-on or Greasemonkey Script. PubMed-EX is a browser extension that marks up PubMed search results with additional information retrieved from IISR & IASL text-mining services. PubMed-EX’s page mark-up includes section categorization, gene/disease name, and relation. The mark-ups of PubMed-EX can help researchers quickly focus on key information in retrieved abstracts and can provide additional background information on key terms. Furthermore, our text-mining server carries out all text-mining processing, freeing up users’ resources. Try this- it’s way cool. [PubMed-EX] (So...
Source: davidrothman.net - August 10, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: 3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tools For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Source Type: blogs

Quertle®: More Semantic MEDLINE SearchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What New Users Should Know (How is Quertle® different?) 1. Find true relationships, not simple co-occurrences On Quertle, if you search for two or more terms, you will find documents in which those terms occur in a conceptual relationship, not simply scattered within the same document. You won’t always find as many, but you weren’t really going to read 14,578 documents, were you? 2. Quertle understands biology and chemistry Quertle understands the difference between “TWIST”, the helix-loop-helix transcription factor, and “twist”, the verb. So, use proper capitalization in your query, an...
Source: davidrothman.net - August 5, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: 3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tools For Medical Libraryfolk Search Teaching/Training Source Type: blogs

Facebook and the Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy (WGiRL – 8/4/2009)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The objectives of the present study were to explore the role of Facebook in the experience of jealousy and to determine if increased Facebook exposure predicts jealousy above and beyond personal and relationship factors. Three hundred eight undergraduate students completed an online survey that assessed demographic and personality factors and explored respondents’ Facebook use. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis, controlling for individual, personality, and relationship factors, revealed that increased Facebook use significantly predicts Facebook-related jealousy. We argue that this effect may be the result ...
Source: davidrothman.net - August 4, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Online Social Networks Web Geekery in Recent Literature Source Type: blogs

MedlineRankerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Learned about MedlineRanker through this recent article: The biomedical literature is represented by millions of abstracts available in the Medline database. These abstracts can be queried with the PubMed interface, which provides a keyword-based Boolean search engine. This approach shows limitations in the retrieval of abstracts related to very specific topics, as it is difficult for a non-expert user to find all of the most relevant keywords related to a biomedical topic. Additionally, when searching for more general topics, the same approach may return hundreds of unranked references. To address these issues, text minin...
Source: davidrothman.net - August 3, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: 3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tools For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Web Geekery in Recent Literature Source Type: blogs

Health Media CSE from Hunter CollegeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Shawn McGinniss at Hunter College let me know that Hunter’s Health Professions Education Center created a Google Custom Search Engine for searching out “health-related videos and other interactive media.” You can try it here. According to the CSE’s main page: Since many educational organizations and media outlets now host full-length content online, this custom search engine aims to make it easier to find quality educational content for students, faculty, and service providers in the health professions. Our goal is to quickly and efficiently locate videos, documentaries, podcasts, lectures, interact...
Source: davidrothman.net - July 31, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: CSEs For Medical Libraryfolk Search Source Type: blogs

Family Practice POC Web GeekeryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine physician Derek Hubbard, MD instructs family doctors on how to find clinical information [on the Web] at the point of care. There are definitely some good tips for clinicians here, but a couple that make me a little uneasy (like using info from About.com as a patient handout). Dr. Hubbard might also be interested in using the Consumer Health and Patient Education Search Engine. [Hattip: Ratcatcher] (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - July 30, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: CSEs Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk Search Video Source Type: blogs

“Article of the Future”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cell Press and Elsevier have launched a project called Article of the Future [link] that is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online. The project’s goal is to take full advantage of online capabilities, allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques. We have developed prototypes for two articles from Cell to demonstrate initial concepts and get feedback from the scientific community. [Video here] Craig Stoltz may be more impressed with these than I am, b...
Source: davidrothman.net - July 30, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: E-Journals Technology Video Source Type: blogs

Colbert Uncovers Public Library CrimeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - July 28, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Fun Video Source Type: blogs

Watch Nikki Pound Clinical ReaderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When I became aware of Clinical Reader (no linky Google-juice for these guys- you can find ‘em if you want to), I decided just to ignore them. In previous years, I might have enjoyed pointing out various disappointing aspects of the site (I’m a peevish naysayer, it has been said). There was no need, though. There are more really good MedLib bloggers than there once were, some of whom are far better at it than I have ever been. To my delight, Nicole Dettmar was the one to do it. http://eagledawg.blogspot.com/2009/07/clinical-reader-starry-ethics-fail.html To answer Alan’s question: Probably just stupid, bu...
Source: davidrothman.net - July 14, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Blogging For Medical Libraryfolk Medical Librarianship Blogs Source Type: blogs

Fun Videos from PPLDEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jill Jarrell hipped me to the fun videos her library posts on Vimeo. Here’s one on workplace etiquette (Jill stars in the fridge, grazing, at about 3m:19s). (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - July 4, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Fun Video Source Type: blogs

Ncbi roflEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Martha Hardy (friend, medical librarian, incredibly cool person) hipped me to NCBI ROFL, a wonderful blog that highlights the best chuckles from PubMed citations. Edit: D’oh! Nikki posted about this yesterday and Berci before that! I have become a truly lame blogger. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - June 27, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Blogging For Medical Libraryfolk Fun Source Type: blogs

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Thanks so much to Laurie Blanchard and everybody at CHLA for inviting me to speak! I enjoyed Winnipeg and it was a treat to finally meet people like Francesca Frati (who is awesome) and Mark Rabnett. The slides for my talk (which look awful in Slideshare) are embedded below. To clarify for Krista Clement: I think anything that removes obstacles between users and the information they want is good. If more fully automating some functions of the library makes those functions less visible, I think that’s great. I don’t think that doing a better job for users will result in decreased funding, but I do think that be...
Source: davidrothman.net - June 9, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Medical Librarianship Blogs Presentations Shameless Self-Promotion Technology Source Type: blogs

☣Sneeze: Flash Flu FunEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How timely that a friend sent me the link to this game just when I needed a fun break from Swine Flu panic. In Sneeze, you are an influenza virus in one human and have the opportunity the spread yourself in various environments by having your human sneeze just once on each level. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - May 7, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Fun Source Type: blogs

Q&A With Melissa RethlefsenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
MIDLINE, the Newsletter of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association has a Q&A with my friend and kick-butt medical librarian Melissa Rethlefsen. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - May 7, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Source Type: blogs

EBSCOhost and ScienceDirect Blocking RSS re-syndication?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A friend who is a medical librarian emailed me. She writes: “I’ve been setting up local RSS pages with Feedburner [for email distribution] and Feed2JS [for dislaying the content of feeds on Web pages] for our most popular journals, to allow for TOCs. … It seems the publishers have gotten wise to this and are not allowing their feeds to be resyndicated. It started with EbscoHost — I noticed their feeds never seemed to refresh themselves (which totally defeats the purpose of having a feed). Now it seems ScienceDirect is also blocking re-syndication. FeedBurner can’t pick up the feeds; Feed2JS ...
Source: davidrothman.net - April 29, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: RSS/Feeds Technology Source Type: blogs

Watching Swine Flu on the WebEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Holy cow! Holy pig! Watching misinformation spread is sort of entertaining. Check out all the people who talk about not eating pork on Twitter. (The flu is not spread by eating pork.) Hah! As I was writing this post, the latest xkcd appeared! The CDC’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Twitter feed seems to be a frequently-updated source of sanity: (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - April 27, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Source Type: blogs

*Really* Stupid Social Health SiteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The idea behind rateadrug.com is for users to rate drugs. Our goal is to provide unique user-generated data on side effects and subtle side effects of medications. We want to know how these prescription drugs make you feel. I’ve seen stupid applications of social media in healthcare, but this may take the cake as the dumbest I’ve seen in a good while. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - April 26, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Social Software Consumer Health Info For Medical Libraryfolk Technology Source Type: blogs

Screencast: Introduction to new PubMed Advanced SearchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Way behind on sharing this, but better late than never. The Mayo Clinic Libraries’ Liblog has a screencast by Melissa Rethlefsen on PubMed’s new Advanced Search features that you can embed on your own page: In case I have not mentioned it recently: Melissa is awesome. (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - April 3, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk How to Medical Librarianship Blogs Search Teaching/Training Video Source Type: blogs