Bookmarkletslist

A list of search bookmarklets for the biomedical librarian written by the author of this blog is available at:

http://www.tiho-hannover.de/service/bib/bookmarkletsliste_e.htm

A short introduction to the nature of bookmarklets and  on how to use them is included.

Friedhelm Rump

New Site reviewing the best webfinds

I recently set up a new site called WEB CROPS WEEKLY. It will be updated weekly and will cover only a very few high class sites or downloads every week. An RSS-feed is available.

Friedhelm Rump

AHIS UK & Ireland Annual Meeting 2009

The AHIS UK & Ireland Annual Meeting 2009 was taking place  at the Veterinary Science Centre, University College Dublin, June 2nd, 2009, the event with the participation of the regular members plus guests from EVLG and even MLA.

1. 10.00  Registration and Coffee
2. 10.20  Welcome by Professor Grace Mulcahy, Dean of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin
3. 10.30  Niamh Brennan, Trinity College Dublin: Institutional
   Repositories and how they can Assist Research
4. 11.15   Moira Brent, Faculty Liaison Librarian, National Teaching
   Fellow Robinson Library, Newcastle University, Information
   Literacy and Support for Researchers
5. 12.00 Sinead Keane, Editor of the Irish Veterinary Journal will speak about recent developments with the journal.
6. Nick Short, Head of Electronic Media  Unit Royal  Veterinary College: WikiVet
7. 14:45 Robert Kimberley, Regional Director, UK & Ireland, Ovid Technologies will speak about Animal Health Resources from Ovid
8. 15:00 Natalia Timiraos, Senior Sales Executive, BioMed Central will talk to us about Open Access and it’s Benefits in the Dissemination of Research

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After introductory remarks by Fiona Brown and Diarmuid Stokes, the Dean welcomed everyone and wished for a fruitful conference.

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Niamh Brennan first introduced the existing open access resources  and the possibilities connected with them, cf.  Romeo Sherpa. Many repositories can be found in the Registry of Open Access Repositories.   Then she showed how they are utilized in  the Trinity College in the Current Research Information System and TARA (Trinity’s Access to Rearch Archives) and what the benefits are to the Trinity Community. A further emphasis was placed on e-theses. She closed with the presentation of various other Open Access Repositories, focussing on the  HEAnet (Irelands National Education and Research Network) and the IREL- Open Project. All in all there was a wealth of information both to the newcomer and the experienced.

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A phenomenological review of the different stages of academic career and the inherent information retrieval habit was goiven and the role of tle library in supporting research was stressed.

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Sinead Keane gave an insight into the interaction of researchers, practitioners and the publishers of the Irish Veterinary Journal, presenting details on how it is managed and edited.

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Nick Short gave an introduction to WikiVet and a short workshop on how to write a Wiki.

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Robert Kimberly gave an overview over the current Wolters-Kluwer / Ovid services.

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Natalia Timiraos gave an overview over the BioMedCentral services.

This was followed by discussion and a social gathering.

Friedhelm Rump, June 2nd, 2009

Update on RSS-Feeds of Journals TOC

In addition to a previous blog entry it seems highly desireable to include the “List of Journals with RSS Feeds” displayed on the Highwire Press page here.  More lists can be generated by starting a google search using “site:domain RSS” like this one “TOC site:www.bioone.org/ RSS“. It is  a little more work, as the feeds are not listed, but only the respective journal’s current TOC.  The RSS-feed icon on the same page will then allow to subscribe to the feed.

Friedhelm Rump

New Browsers

The Internet Explorer is now available here in its betaversion 8.1.  I started to download it and then stopped in the middle of the process, as it seemed to go deep into my PC. The Spybot-security check also made its complaints. Also there is some co-operation expected  for which I do not have he time at present. So I will just wait for the alphaversion.

Chrome by Google, in its betaversion available here,  on the other hand is not half as clumsy as the Internet Explorer and immediately imports all the bookmarks from Firefox . First tests I did left me with a good impression. it is particularly handy to be able to search with in the navigation bar.

For further information by Google Chrome itself see here.

Friedhelm Rump

Toc and RSS

There are two databases of journals’ TOC with RSS available which would well be worth the veterinary librarians’ interest, subjects not being limited to the veterinary field only:

• Tictocs,  a database with 7,771 journals (June 25th, 2008), searchable by journal title ( or segment of it, even truncated *) or by publisher, maintained by a British consortium
• Journals Feed Navigator which is just one application of the broader Feed Navigator, maintained by the Finnish National Library of Health Sciences – Terkko. It has various functionalities.

Purely veterinary titles are available here and here.

Friedhelm Rump