Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Elsevier launches German language version of clinical reference tool MD Consult


STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of DoctorConsult (http://www.doctorconsult.de), the German language version of its professional clinical reference tool, MD Consult. The move is part of Elsevier’s expanded efforts to provide interactive clinical reference and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to new markets in Europe. The launch of DoctorConsult is seen to make Elsevier the first multi-lingual professional clinical reference product provider.The customised products are seen to meet the cultural needs of users who do not speak English as a first language, and address specific medical practice needs within different countries. The Internet-based products provide users with a full range of medical information covering a variety of clinical needs. In one integrated interface, users can now access evidence-based immediately actionable 'quick answers' (i.e. Elsevier's FirstConsult) as well as background references such as books and full text journal articles suitable for more in-depth research. Additional localised versions of MD Consult are in development for Italy, France and Spain.The Consult suite of multilingual reference products is one of several solutions being developed to meet local reference, point-of-care, workflow and decision support needs. Additional solutions in development include Clinical Decision Support; guidelines and best practice information delivered when and where they are most useful at the point of care; leveraging of patient data to pinpoint the most needed information for a given clinical task; drug information and safety checking, also linked to patient data when possible; seamless content integration with Electronic Health Records, including info buttons and alerts; payer services; retrospective analytics for identifying performance gaps and outliers; and tools to influence provider behaviour.According to Elsevier, the company is well positioned to replicate its success in the US in other markets as well. The company further noted that European e-health markets and Elsevier's positions within them are at an earlier stage of development than in the US. While market dynamics are different, key underlying market forces are similar to those in the US, particularly the drive to contain costs and improve outcomes, and the rapid increase in Internet usage by healthcare practitioners.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Science.gov

Saturday, July 26, 2008

ALA and Conferences

American Library Association (ALA)
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/eventsconferences.cfm
ALA is the oldest association set up in US by lighting trailblazer like Justin Winsor, Charles Ammi Cutter, Samuel S Green, Melwil Dewey, Fred B. Perkins and Thomas W. Bicknell in Philadelphia in 1879. The membership of this association is open to all LIS Professional as well as institutions. It has eleven division which deals in academic, school, or public libraries, technical or reference services, and library administration. Members may also join any of seventeen round tables that are grouped around more specific and issues than the broader set of ALA divisions.
Conferences
The ALA is made up of its 11 divisions and 15 offices hold number of conferences throughout the year. Out of that two ALA-wide ones are the ALA Annual Conference and the ALA Midwinter meeting. Midwinter is typically more focused on internal organization business, while ALA Annual is focused around exhibits and presentations. The Annual conference is generally held in June, and Midwinter is typically held in January. ALA Annual is notable for being one of the largest professional conferences in existence, typically drawing over 25,000 attendees. Navigation of following link may help anyone to trace out the detail and up-to-date information about forthcoming conference, events, meetings and other relevant news.
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/eventsconferences.cfm
This link provide the following information---------
1. 2008 ALA Midwinter Meeting Information
This link provides the retro news about the Midwinter Meeting information held on Jan 11-16, 2008 at phildelphia.
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2008/home.cfm
2. 2008 ALA Annual Conference Information
This is the link which throws light on the conference held in Aneheim , CA, from June 26-July 2, 2008.
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2008a/home.cfm
3. Future dates of Midwinter Meetings and Annual Conferences
A forthcoming chronological list of Midwinter Meetings and Conferences, will be held during 2009 to 2014 can be found on following link—
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/eventsconferences.cfm
4. Past Midwinter Meetings and Annual Conferences
The complete information about conferences held the time slot of 2000 to 2008 is can be view at following link—
http://www.ala.org/ala/confservices/pastconferencesb/pastconferences.cfm
5. ALA Chapter, Division and Affiliate Conference Calendar
This link can be easily award the most sought after link among Library Professionals and Knowledge Managers to get the advance information about events and conferences to be held in 2008 to 2019---
http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/chapters/planningcalendar/planningcalendar.cfm
6. Upcoming conferences and events by sponsoring unit
This weblink is the good source of information about upcoming conferences and events sponsored by illustratious forums, institutes, divisions and offices of ALA-----------
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/upcomingconferences/sponsgroup.cfm
7. Upcoming conferences and events in chronological order
This is as astonishing bouquet of 37 flowers, where each flower has like a marigold of web links of conferences and events which would be organized time to time by ALA and its eleven division and fifteen offices----
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/upcomingconferences/date.cfm
8. Business Meetings held outside of Midwinter and Annual Conferences
This page is restricted to its members only, and they can register their meeting, outside the Midwinter and Annual Conference either by face to face or by synchronize internet chat-----
http://www.ala.org/meetings/form.cfm
9. Past Conferences and the other events
It is nice collection of roundabout 41 web links of retro conferences and events organized by time to time—
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/past_conferences.cfm?s=21
10. etnoMetric presentation on Conference Hall Traffic Patterns
Conference Hall Traffic Pattern is the study presented in Midwinter 2008 meeting at Philadelphia. These studies analyzed the attendee behavior, including traffic pattern, use of common areas, and level of engagement with exhibitors. This has a power point presentation but restricted for members only------------
http://www.ala.org/ala/events/ethnometricsecure.cfm

Saturday, June 28, 2008

UKeiG Courses, News and Events


UK einformation Group UKeiG is a respected and well-established body for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. It has individual and corporate members across all key UK sectors: government, legal, business and commerce, science, technology and healthcare, higher and further education, and the public sector, funded was founded in 1978 as UKOLUG - the UK Online User Group. It changed its name to the UK eInformation Group in 2004 to reflect changes in technology and the wider activities in which the Group is now involved.

Goals and objectives
.Stimulate communication and the exchange of knowledge about electronic information
.Disseminate high quality advice, information and publications about e-industry news and developments
.Raise awareness of existing and new technologies that retrieve, manage and process electronic information
.Support continuing professional development by delivering a high quality portfolio of practical and affordable training programmes and seminars
.Encourage innovation in electronic information retrieval, management and processing
http://www.ukeig.org.uk/about/index.html

Training courses 2008/2009
Event
Date
Location
Understanding metadata and controlled vocabularies - the key to integrated networking.
Thursday, 3rd July 2008, 9.30-16.30
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE


SharePoint for Intranets and Web Sites.

Tuesday 15th July 2008, 9.30-16.30
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Understanding metadata and controlled vocabularies - the key to integrated networking.
Tuesday, 29th July 2008, 9.30-16.30
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
UKeiG Intranets Forum: Drop in session
Thursday, 25th September 2-5pm
Imperial College London

Intranet Governance
Thursday 9th October 2008
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Engaging with the environment: finding quality eInformation resources
Wednesday, 5th November 2008
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Biomedical Information
Wednesday, 26th November 2008
Kings College, London. Guys Campus
UKeiG Intranets Forum
Friday 12th December, 2.30-4.30pm
Environment Agency, Bristol

Innovations in e-information - the UKeiG 2009 State of the Art Conference
Tuesday 16th - Wednesday 17th June 2009
Manchester Conference Centre

Online Information 2007
Presentation - Searching without Google: alternative tools for more expert searching.
This is a powerful presentation of 46 power point slides where one find full features of 11 search engine other than Google.


(Presentation - Tricks and tips for better web search.
This is an excellent presentation of 38 Power Point slides, gives the standard features of search engine, issues and flair for searching. One must have a look at once

Events
2008 Sakai Community Conference
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France1-3 July 2008
The Sakai Foundation has announced that the 2008 Sakai Community Conference will be held in Paris, France. The dates will be Tuesday-Thursday, 1-3 July, with pre-conference sessions and activities On Monday, 30 June. All meetings and conference sessions will be held at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. The Sakai technical demonstrations will take place on Wednesday evening, 2 July 2008, at the Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel and Conference Centre, which is located nearby.
https://sakai.educonference.com/conferences/

JISC/CNI 2008
The JISC/CNI Meeting: Transforming the User ExperienceHastings Europa Hotel, Belfast10-11 July

Following the success of previous conferences held in Brighton and York, The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are proud to announce the 7th International Meeting which will be held at the Europa Hastings Hotel, Belfast, on 10 and 11 July 2008.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2008/

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008 (IWMW 2008)
IWMW 2008: "The Great Debate"
University of Aberdeen
22-24 July 2008
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/

The Red Island Repository Institute Fedora-focused Workshop
Red Island Repository Institute: 1st Fedora Summer InstitutePrince Edward Island, Canada11-15 August 2008http://vre.upei.ca/riri/

Aarhus, Denmark18 September 2008

http://www.lsi.uned.es/IACH2008/
Organised in conjunction with the 12th European Conference On Research And Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008)
The Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH) workshop held in conjunction with ECDL 2008 will bring together academics carrying out research in the area of information access and practitioners working in the cultural heritage field. The goal of the workshop is promoting exchange of ideas concerning creation, curation, storage, retrieval and use of cultural heritage information. In particular, the workshop will focus on the question of how the keepers of cultural heritage resources can improve information access by applying information technology and principles currently being developed in the area of information access.
http://www.ecdl2008.org


DCC Digital Curation 101
DCC Digital Curation 101 Training Programme6-10 October 2008

The National e-Science Centre13-15 South College StreetEdinburghEH8 9AA http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/digital-curation-101-2008/

4th International Digital Curation Conference
4th International Digital Curation Conference:"Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?"

Hilton Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK1-3 December 2008

In partnership with the National e-Science Centre they are holding 4th International Digital Curation Conference on 1-3 December 2008 at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008/

Online Educa Berlin 2008
Online Educa Berlin 2008:14th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and TrainingHotel InterContinental Berlin, Budapester Str. 2, D-10787 Berlin, Germany3-5 December 2008
Online Educa Berlin 2008 welcomes Michael Wesch as a keynote speaker. The event is the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors and will take place from December 3 - 5 at the Hotel InterContinential in Berlin.
http://www.online-educa.com/


Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Links to World Wide Web Resources

Absoft is basically a software company which succefully involving in solving the software solutions for many educational and institutional organisations. As they claim, that since 2002 with the help of Indian and International partners, they are the leaders in Library and School Management solutions. Apart for developing the tailored software for eminent educational and professionals institutes this web links also host a web links for countless reference sources with the help of link”LINKS”. Here 388 web links are categorised in following way-
1. Library and Information News letter and other resources —112
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#1
This is a gateway of library and information science world, where 112 links are there to find the Lis information. These links are in following format-
1. News letters
2. Scholarly and Academic Journals
3. Web pages of National Libraries Across the world
4. Online version of International level Library Associations
5. Library Bulletin published by eminent Universities libraries
6. Links to Bibliographies
7. Publisher’s Journals and Newsletters
8. Collection of Current Awareness web links
9. Libraries Web pages
10. Links to Librarian’s job opportunities
11. Scholarly and literary Magazines
12. Archives of Digital Libraries etc.

2. Journals on General Education --199
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#2
This is a list of 199 web links of free online journals. These journals represent the cross area of universe of knowledge. Early child care information, Organizational Learning and Leadership, Education, Teaching, E learning, Engineering Education, Information Technology and Disability, Career and Technology, Industrial Teaching Education, are some of proud members of journals are waiting for exploring by the end user.

3. Indian Mission and Embassies abroad----------30
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#3
Here one can find a link of Indian High Commission and Counselee in 30 following countries—
1. Madrid 11. Nepal 21. Buenos Aires
2. Budapest 12. Peru 22. Brunel Darussalam
3. Mexico 13. Jakarta 23. Frankfurt
4. Qatar 14. Bratislava 24. London
5. Washington Dc 15. Kuwait 25. Brazil
6. Hong Kong 16. Abu Dhabi 26. Beijing
7. New York 17. Kathmandu 27. Ottawa
8. Bonn 18. Croatia 28. Tehran
9. Bangkok 19. Moscow
10. Sanfransisco 20. Bahrain

4. Science and Technology------27
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#4
In this link a list of 27 organizations is there, who are well known in Science and Technology field

5. Trade and Investment related bodies in India.------20
http://www.ab-soft.net/links.htm#5
This link provide the vital clue of fluctuation of share market, Decision and Policies regarding leather Export Bank of India, Directive Policies of Export Import Bank of India, Ministry of Commerce, BSE, NSE, Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers Association etc. It has list of 20 links to serve the purpose.





57 Useful Google Tools You’ve Never Heard Of

Newstin is a global social news paltform published fron Czech Republic, where Christina Laun has listed 57 tools available in Google for different purposes. In the words of this scholar mostly peoples use Google surf for number of reason like, to check their mail, as search engine, as social networking sites , etc. But very few have knowledge of whole list of Google products in all.
To make them aware Christian Laun has tried to summarise the Googel products in following manner-

1. Must Haves
i. Reader
ii. iGoogle
iii. Picasa
iv. Docs
v. Notebook
vi. Desktop

2. Maps and Travels
vii. Ride Finder
viii. Transit
ix. Mars
x. Sky
xi. Earth

3. Web Browsing and Development
xii. Sketchup
xiii. Checkout
xiv. Web Accelarator
xv. Feed Burner
xvi. Web History
xvii. Base
xviii. Co-up
xix. App Engine
xx. Website Optimizer
xxi. Browser Sync
xxii. Click to call
xxiii. Page Creator

4. Social Networking and Communication
xxiv. Orkut
xxv. Android
xxvi. Send to phone
xxvii. Shared Stuff
xxviii. Talk
xxix. Dodgeball
xxx. Friend Connect
xxxi. GrandCentral
xxxii. Sites
5. Custom Search Tools
xxxiii. Scholars
xxxiv. Patent Search
xxxv. Sets
xxxvi. Catalogues
xxxvii. Search By Number
xxxviii. Accessible
xxxix. Trends
xl. Book Search
xli. News Archive Search
xlii. Special Search
6. Miscellaneous Google Tools
xliii. Google Pack
xliv. Gadgets
xlv. Pinyin IME
xlvi. Image label
xlvii. Code Search
xlviii. Alerts
xlix. Apps
l. GOOG-411
li. Google Mobilizer
lii. Gears
7. Third Party Tool
liii. Simply Google
liv. Googlematic
lv. Goofresh
lvi. Cooking With Google
lvii. Babelplex

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Online E-News Resources


Columbia University

Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting path breaking research in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. It includes three undergraduate schools, thirteen graduate and professional schools, and a school of continuing education.

Columbia University Libraries
Columbia University Libraries has a nice composition of 25 Columbia University and affiliated libraries access the rich array of both traditional and electronic information services. A click of mouse can open the 500+ databases, 45,000 e-journals, 50,000 e-books and 645,000 e-images which are safely stored in digital form.

E-Resources
E-Resource is the link which explores the ocean of E-Resources. With the help of 13 web links it includes general resources like databases, journals, Books and special type of E-resources like E-Images, E-Music, and Numeric and Spatial data as Data/GIS etc. Apart of that some noteworthy resources also graced the link which can be listed as follows-
v Online Access to Columbia Dissertations , Conference Proceedings and Working Papers
v Selection of Columbia Digital Projects and Initiative
v Selected Virtual Exhibition catalogue
v Subject-focused guides to digital and print resources
v Internet Search tools like about.com, Yahoo, Google.
E-News
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/enews/index.html
In the world of online news E-News, devised by Columbia University Library is an awesome work. It is graced by News resources like LexisNexis and Factiva and infinite links to local, National and International News resources. To facilitate News Safari this web link has following main links-
Search for News
This link gives the opportunity to a user to explore the news world in print as well as audio video form too.
1. News and Current Event Databases
It has 54 databases of newspaper and magazine articles, wire service news, and broadcast transcripts. Coverage varies by source. To access the database one
Has to have the University Ids.
http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/ldpd/app/rti/results?hl=1&ps=1&sb=1&ss=1&qt=6&q=&hpp=100000&hk=-1&rt=nw
2. American Newspaper at Columbia
This is a comprehensive list of print and microfilm U.S newspapers from 1704 to the present available in the Columbia University Libraries and arranged by state and city of publication... Like Database it also has restricted access and demands UNIs.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/news.html
3. Internet Public Library
This is an open access Links to news sources and information by subject.
Compiled and maintained by the University Of Michigan School Of Information.
http://www.ipl.org/
4. Online News Sources
This is just not a simple link, but one can simple say it is an immeasurable ocean of news links to news sources worldwide. ABYZ has responsible for this laudable job.
http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
5. News Magazines
Its a list of 145 online news magazines worldwide categorise in region like Africa (26), Asia/Oceania (26), Europe/Eurasia (22), Latin America (18), Middle East /North Africa (27), North America (26) and in language category only Spanish is there.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/enews/magazines.html
6. Art and letter Daily
Its an daily edition published by The Chroncile of Higher Education in New York. This is an excellent source of news, information and administration news. It can be rewarded as BLIMFUL INFORMATION OCEAN. It has an array of varied links covers News papers, Book Reviews, Magazines, Weblogs, Radio News, Channel News , in other form every possible form and format in which any type of news across the world can appear, it is there in this link.
http://aldaily.com/
Broadcasting
In this category various audio and video news resources are given as follows-
1. Radio-Locator
It covers 3000 radio station working in US terrritory.
2. Zap2it
This is an excellent index of US Television index.
3. Weather Channel
This is an excellent source to know the local weather of US at any time.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

RSS News Feeds for Library and Inforamiton Science

Neurotransmitter.net is wellknown name in area of biomediacal information in fields such as neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychology. The director of Neurotransmitter.net, Shawn Thomas, holds a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biopsychology from Quincy University. Apart from News feeds for Neuroscience and Mental Health and Science and Heath it has RSS Feed for Library and Information Science and can be accesed by following link-
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/lis_news.php

It has following sublinks where one can search a list of magazine and blogs in library and inforamtion science field—

1.Scholarly Communication
2.D-Lib Magazine
3.Ariadne: A Web magazine on Internet issues for librarians and information specialists

4. Journal archive list
5. JoDI: Journal of Digital Information

6. Library Journal News

7.Combined Library Job Postings - Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet http://www.lisjobs.com/jobs/index.asp

8. AL Online News

9. ALA Press Releases
10. librarian.net

11. U.S. Copyright Office: Website Updates
12. LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News
13. Library Stuff

To view article description one can go at following link---
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/lis_news.php?catid=1

with the help of this link one can access direct article published on all above mentioned magzine and blogs.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

News and Newspapers Online

http://library.uncg.edu/news/
The librararies of University of North Carolina at Greensboro has developed a web site for inline news and Newspapers.
It provides 3073 News links from following countries in which Online Newspapers are provided available on the globe-
1.USA and Canada
2. Latin America and Caribbean
3. Europe
4. Asia, Oceania and Antarctica
5. Africa.

With the help of following link, a user can search his required news link on the basis of language known to him or a word, phrase in several field.

1.Just the sites http://library.uncg.edu/news/nq-all.asp
This link provide all 3073 newspapers in alphabetical manner

2.Advanced Search http://library.uncg.edu/news/advsearch.asp
This link facilitate the user to search newapaper by lanuage and keyword.

3. Link to other News Reference sites http://library.uncg.edu/news/nq-link.asp
It has 17 links with compelte details like-Name of link, Detail or infotrmation which thse link are proidfing, Host Langyuage and date on lastupdation was done.

4.Talk to us. http://library.uncg.edu/news/sugg-newsite.asp
This link maintian a communication betwen a user and web site developer.
here they openly invite teh nomination for inclusion of any news link or resource and also suggesion to improve the web site.

A word aboutGreensboro, North Carolina, USA
Greenboro is a city in teh U.S. State of North Carolilna. Its is the third largest city by populationand alrgest city in Guliford City and sourrounding Piedment Triad Metropolitian region.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina