[Libs-Or] Collection of links on science, medicine, scholarly communication and general Web stuff

[hleman at samhealth.org]

Hi, all.  I have just learned how (sort of) to use Tweetdeck and would like to pass various items I came across that I found interesting in the time sink that Twitter is.

Diagram of the citation chain

http://undergraduatesciencelibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/diagram-of-the-citation-chain/

Why OpenNotes and access to the medical chart is important

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/08/opennotes-access-medical-chart-important.html

Glimpse at image credits on science blogs

http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com/2010/10/glimpse-at-image-credits-on-science.html

How the NEJM became an advertisement platform for the pharmaceutical industry

http://survivingmyphd.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-nejm-became-advertisement-platform.html

6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Animations

http://mashable.com/2010/10/27/create-animations-online/

iPad health care use by doctors, a comprehensive infographic

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/08/ipad-health-care-doctors-comprehensive-infographic.html

8 Ways to Reduce Your Site’s Bounce Rate

http://mashable.com/2010/10/29/how-to-reduce-bounce-rates/

Information Gulags, Intellectual Straightjackets, and Memory Holes:
Three Principles to Guide the Preservation of Scientific Data

http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/9/0/9_ES1/_article

The data isn’t in the papers anymore, you know.

http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=5384&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+openhelix%2FGhpE+%28The+OpenHelix+Blog%29&utm_content=Twitter

Public or Private Cloud, or maybe Hybrid?

http://blog.eaglegenomics.com/?p=300

'Liquid Journals' Use the Web to Upend Peer Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25683/

Web Optimization: W3C Takes Semantic Web to Next Level

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/web-optimization-w3c-takes-semantic-web-to-next-level-009014.php

Linked Data – Coming Together

http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2010/10/linked-data-coming-together.php

Some possible ideas for marketing that public and academic libraries might find useful:

Ten Forms of Alternative Advertising Opportunities You’re Not Using (But Should Be)

http://www.facebooksniper.com/ten-forms-of-alternative-advertising-opportunities-youre-not-using-but-should-be.html

And here is a corrective to groupthink worship of big thinkers on Web matters:

Future Guy
Clay Shirky has perfected the art of the bold, meaningless epigram.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/future-guy_513321.html

Neat video of a free visualization tool worth looking at. This is really, really cool. Librarians could develop all sorts of  databases and see them become widgets on other sites—talk about great for viral marketing of librarians’ expertise and that of their researchers:

Tableau is a free Windows-only software for creating visualisations –

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/

JAMA Published Fewer Industry-Funded Studies after Introducing a Requirement for Independent Statistical Analysis

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013591

This one is useful for those of us who work on Web sites and it is kind of fun in and of itself:

And They’re Off! Compare Website Loading Times With Whichloadsfaster

http://www.40tech.com/2010/10/31/and-theyre-off-compare-website-loading-times-with-whichloadsfaster/

9 Tips To Increase Your RSS Subscriber Count

http://techdusts.com/2010/05/25/9-tips-to-increase-your-rss-subscriber-count/

This one is worth a look by those who work with educators in general:

Medical and Nursing Education in the Virtual World of Second Life Video

http://jsmillerrn.blogspot.com/2010/10/medical-and-nursing-education-in.html

and here is the nurse educator who tweeted it and who is worth following on Twitter, as she has good eye for neat apps and useful stuff:

Teresa Heithaus

http://twitter.com/NurseEducator

Report very much worth reading:

“Emerging Genres in Scholarly Communication”

Can be downloaded here:

http://www.uvasci.org/current-institute/sci-8-report/

The Empowered E-Patient: An Infographic

http://ht.ly/320YO

This is a neat little search engine to watch:

Alternative Search Engine Blekko Launches to Eliminate Spam in Search

http://mashable.com/2010/10/31/blekko-launch/

Here is the video:

http://blekko.com/ws/+/press-videos?h=1

How do search engines handle special characters? Should you care?

http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2010/11/02/how-do-search-engines-handle-special-characters-should-you-care/

Yeah,  we all know about Mendeley, but company man and nice, smart guy Jason Hoyt does a great job explaining its value to researchers in the video here:

Mendeley: Reference Manager on Steroids

http://www.americanbiotechnologist.com/blog/mendeley/

Most Creative 404 Error Pages on the Web:

http://www.denzomag.com/2010/10/most-creative-404-error-web-pages-on-the-web/

Create a Custom Social Media Dashboard with Metricly

http://www.stayonsearch.com/create-a-custom-social-media-dashboard-with-metricly?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+stayonsearch+(StayOnSearch)

Possibly useful Twitter trends tool for those in public health

http://trendistic.com/

The Electronic Medical Home

http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2010/11/electronic-medical-home.html

Hope Leman, MLIS
Research Information Technologist
Center for Health Research and Quality
Samaritan Health Services
815 NW 9th Street Suite 203A
Corvallis, OR 97330
(541) 768-5712


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