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Comment on Grammarly and Irony by David Rothman

David Rothman — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:09:32 +0000

Huh. Still no response.

Comment on BioMedLib.com (bmlsearch.com) – Successor to ReleMed by mir

mir — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:16:30 +0000

This is Mir with BioMedLib (BML) David, thank you for expressing your opinion.

The monthly journal from BML, Who Is Publishing In My Domain; I agree you can use free tools to do many parts of it. Question: how do you find the related articles of a given publication which are published in the past 6 months?
For the health professionals who are not necessarily search experts, the journal is quite helpful and unique, their registration rate shows. And the Standard version is free of charge.

Yes I recall your positive view toward relevance ranking of Relemed.com and I assure that the relevance scoring of BML has improved significantly (both Precision and Recall).

The “Melissa Rethlefsen” search; NLM has included complete firstnames sporadically in Medline. Medline usually includes only the initial letter of first name, as your “Rethlefsen M” search shows. Pubmed uses conversion tables which are not exported as part of Medline or any other data source. Hence we don’t have access to such info to load to BML in the first place, no wonder it can not locate it.

The BML domain name; the BioMedLib.com is the higher level website which branches to several specific sites each for a specific product; for example the bmlsearch.com for the BML search engine. Currently BioMedLib.com redirects to bmlsearch.com so this might cause confusion in some users, I agree with you.

Comment on Grammarly and Irony by Abigail

Abigail — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:49:12 +0000

*Snork* Ooops….

Comment on Grammarly and Irony by Karen

Karen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:00:01 +0000

Love it. Thanks for the laugh.

Comment on Alert Sounds for Library Computers by bentley

bentley — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:49:20 +0000

Maybe something from here or here?

e.g., “Delete!” or “Someone wants a word with you” or Don’t blink!

Comment on Zotero and Jason Puckett by Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:02:07 +0000

Well Stephen, if your institution is IE and locks down its computers so that nobody can install anything, including Firefox or Chrome then as a whole the institution really doesn’t use Zotero since it currently doesn’t work with IE.

The publisher insisting on a particular citation manager hit me about 2 years ago. I had a research call me about EndNote and when I suggested other products he said the important journal in his field require they use EndNote. I can’t remember the journal anymore but I was skeptical at the time and I remember looking up the journal’s instructions for authors and it did say they preferred authors to use EndNote. Perhaps things have changed, it has been 2 years a lot has happened in this area.

Comment on Zotero and Jason Puckett by Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:23:42 +0000

I don’t understand what it means that “the institution does not use Zotero as a whole…” given that these are free personal productivity tools. I’ve not heard of a publisher insisting on a particular citation manager, and it doesn’t make much sense that they would care – is this true? I think researchers are moving to Zotero and Mendeley (for good reason) to the extent that EndNote and RefWorks will struggle to survive. We’ll see.

Comment on Zotero and Jason Puckett by Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:36:32 +0000

We are an IE only place so we really don’t use Zotero in a large way. The College of Medicine students do for their portfolios and I think the reason the College wanted them to use it was because it played nice with their class management system or it had APIs that could be adapted to the class management system.
The institution does not use Zotero as a whole most of our researchers and writers use EndNote, RefMan and RefWorks. Of those three it really depends on the person’s tastes and what journals they primarily submit to. There are journal publishers that want their submitted manuscripts to specifically use EndNote. I don’t know how they can tell if you use something else, maybe it is in the coding, but they say that their manuscript submission systems do better with EndNote. Again I don’t know how much of that is true or not.
I don’t see people really branching off to other bib. management systems primarily for two reasons, the publisher manuscript edict that they use a specific program and as a creatures of comfort they use what they are familiar with.
On a somewhat related note I am seeing more people using Dropbox to hold PDFs and other things. I think people are doing it more with conferences or when they travel and see something cool. They drop it all in for that subject/conference/trip.

Comment on Zotero and Jason Puckett by Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:56:11 +0000

Zotero Standalone has worked very well for me with Chrome. I prefer it to Mendeley mainly because importing is easier (not one at a time like the Medeley Web Importer) and because you can set it to fetch full text through SFX. Open source is also a big plus. RefWorks is awful, but I use it to send search results through shared folders since it requires nothing from the recipient of the link.

Comment on Zotero and Jason Puckett by David Rothman

David Rothman — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:22:25 +0000

@Abs- Looks like they’re working on a connector for Internet Explorer. http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/19644/internet-explorer-connector-is-still-planned/