DigiCMB

Reponses on Test Comparison Medical Journal Apps

2013-03-18T16:08:00.000+01:00

End of last week (March 15th 2013) was the official kick-off of our test and trial period for 4 different Journal Apps. See our LibGuides page on E-Journals.

Comparison of (Medical) Journal Apps by Cmb Umcg

I will try and post all relevant comments and responses to the test trial and the apps below in this post.

In the end I want to create a kind of comparion chart/map/table and list a number of criteria. here are some criteria I am thinking off. If you have suggestions for additional criteria, please do not hesitate to contact me!

Registration process
User interface
Performance
Access to full text
Pdf view + extra's
Share options
"Open In" other Apps
Notifications
Search options
Platforms
Support

Some Responses

Am I right that docwise and Read by QxMD do NOT have option to Open PDF in another Apps, like GoodReader?
Answer docwise: will launch this approx. 2 months. Answer Read: It's on our Roadmap!

How does this "Featured" Tab work in ReadbyQxMD?
Answer Read: Over time, you will find that the Featured tab will become more and more personalized. The featured tab is populated by content that is algorithmically determined. We use dozens of signals to figure out the content that you might otherwise be missing. For example, if you are a cardiologist and thousands of other cardiologists have been reading article X, we are more likely to include article X in your featured stream even if it's from a journal that you haven't subscribed to.
I am missing Critical Care Medicine + American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care in BrowZine. can you add them for me?
Answer BrowZine: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care is a Highwire journal, we'll be adding this very soon (probably within the next week). Critical Care Medicine is a LLW title and we are still a ways out from supporting these journals (more than a month out).

Comparing Journal Apps; February Update

2013-02-22T15:01:00.000+01:00

Screenshot Docwise

Here is an update on the Comparing Journal Apps Post from February 4th 2013.
The plan is to arrange a trial and comparison period of 4 journal apps within the University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen.
Just talking and tweeting about it already had some nice feedback from patrons, but also some libraries are interested. It would be great to have more people doing the comparison in the same time.
Béfore we will start the actual trial period, we want all apps to be ready for our users to:

be abled to register, because for all app you need to...

Today (22.2.2013) the DocPhin registration is open for our Institution. Choose: Other: University Medical Center Groningen
DocWise made the Netherlands (and other countries) available with currently two in there: UMCG and University Utrecht
Read by QxMD has "Rijksuniversiteit Groningen" to use for proxy access

have the fulltext access via our ezproxy installed or availabe for all 4 apps.
use BrowZine (the only one covering ALL journal categories, not just MEDICAL) with our proxy and Holdings.

Flipboard-like (Medical)

Docwise and Read (by QxMD) personalized "Flipboard" for medical journals, news and topics.
Both these Apps have Settings for our library's proxy off-campus access.

Docwise has updated the new version with new (read: outside US) countries like Australia, Germany, UK, France, Sweden and the Netherlands!

available for iPad only
fulltext via proxy settings; Choose Netherlands; UMCG
free

In Read: Choose Rijksuniversiteit Groningen for fulltext-access(reviews Docwise and Read)

available for iPad and iPhone
has push-notifications
free

Start Pages-like (Medical)

Docphin (22.2.2013: Just been activated to accept patrons from UMCG by email, we are cheking if proxy-settings are working). review Docphine

available for Web, iPhone and Android. (iPad in preparation; Use Puffin Browser for best performance on iPad for now!)
fulltext access via proxy settings. Choose "Other: University Medical Center Groningen.
free

Bookshelf-like (All Topics, including Medical)

BrowZine (We are talking to them for a possible trial. This is the only App with a license-fee plan)

available for iPad
fulltext via proxy-settings ánd Holdings file
covering ALL journal categories
licensed
review BrowZine

What do you think?

Reach Out to Research : library support services (R2R)

2013-02-19T16:57:00.001+01:00

I had a great time in Tromsø for the

ReachOut to Research (R2R)

Small seminar about library services supporting research and technology

I did two presentations of 1 hour on the Thursday for a large group of staff members of the University Library of Tromsø. On the Friday we did a roundtable session of almost 2 hours on various topics touched in the two talks. I created a special Scoop.it Topic to keep up to date on library support services for Research and called it ReachOut to Research (R2R)

Reach Out to Research : library support services (R2R) from Guus van den Brekel

The user, the Technology & the Library (and why to go in between) from Guus van den Brekel

The EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries) 2013 workshop

2013-02-05T23:05:00.002+01:00

Do you want to develop your own strategies to meet challenges facing research and health libraries? Do you want to participate in creative dialogue and gain new insights on key topics? Do you want to build your network amongst european collegues?

Then the EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries) 2013 workshop in the archipelago of Stockholm is for you!

The 2013 EAHIL Workshop will be hosted by the University Library at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, from June 12th - 14th. The biannual EAHIL Workshop will take a more participatory approach than traditionally seen at most conferences and workshops, without papers and posters. A range of methods will be used to stimulate dialogue around a topic allowing participants to gain insight and understanding. The key words that will permeate this workshop are interactive, innovative and inspiring.

Be prepared to leave your comfort zone!

Only 200 people can attend, so don’t wait too long to sign up! Please note that the price includes 2 nights at Vår Gård.
Read more at http://eahil2013.kib.ki.se/

Comparing (Medical) Journal Apps

2013-02-04T12:15:00.002+01:00

There are a couple of great Apps available to read your preferred Journals, scan them and keep up to date on your tablet.
The CMB UMCG want to test a few of them more thoroughly in the next weeks.

Flipboard-like (Medical)

Docwise & Read (by QxMD) personalized "Flipboard" for medical journals, news and topics.
Both these Apps have Settings for our library's proxy off-campus access.

In Docwise you choose: Alabama; University Medical Center Groningen
In Read: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen(reviews Docwise & Read)

Start Pages-like (Medical)

Docphin (unfortunately they are not responding to my requests to include our outside-US Institution, we can't test it. Update: They are willing to activate my institution, details sent, now we have to wait!)

review Docphine

Bookshelf-like (All Topics, including Medical)

BrowZine (We are talking to them for a possible trial. This is the only App with a license-fee plan)
Finally reading Tables of Contents in a useful way?

review BrowZine

What do you think?

RSS Feed Translation "Google Script"

2013-01-22T16:23:00.001+01:00

I am working on the Twitter account of @ResearchUMCG and was asked to include the UMCG Press Releases. Unfortunately these Press Releases are only in Dutch for now. And the intension is to tweet in English ....
I found a very useful blog called Digital Inspiration explaining how to execute this translation automatically via Google Script.
Strangely enough I was not abled to see the script in Google Script at all in my preferred Chrome Browser (who's product is that again?)
Instructions were very clear and setting up the translation script was done in minutes. I used Twitter feed to deliver it to the Twitter account. I like Twitterfeed for the prefic etc. It takes a long time to load screens though .... Next time I will try DLVR.IT (anyone any experience?)
We feed the atUMCG publications also directly into this Twitter-account.

Educational value of tablets in medical education

2013-01-21T15:56:00.004+01:00

The Dutch Medical Education Association had it's yearly event in November 2012 and it was my first time there.
I was there partly to present our experiences with the "iPads on Loan" -project of the CMB, UMCG in a joint-session with an Anatomy teacher (Peter Room) & medical student Rens Teeuwen.
(watch our three slide-sets)
We gathered all information used in this BIT.LY BUNDLE: http://bit.ly/tabletsNVMO

iPad en snijzaal | NVMO 2012 RondetafelAuteur: Rens Teeuwen Alle links http://bit.ly/tabletsNVMO A16 De didactische waarde van de tablet-pc. Eerste ervaringen met het gebruik van iPads in het medisch onderwijs *Educational value of tablets in medical education*from digicmb, 2 months ago in Health & Medicine15 slides | 1 favorite | Download
Didactische waarde van de tablet-pc | NVMO 2012 RondetafelAuteur: Peter Room Alle links http://bit.ly/tabletsNVMO A16 De didactische waarde van de tablet-pc. Eerste ervaringen met het gebruik van iPads in het medisch onderwijs *Educational value of tablets in medical education*from digicmb, 2 months ago in Health & Medicine37 slides | 1 favorite | Download
Te leen : iPads | NVMO Rondetafel over TabletsAlle links http://bit.ly/tabletsNVMO A16 De didactische waarde van de tablet-pc. Eerste ervaringen met het gebruik van iPads in het medisch onderwijs *educational value of tablets in medical education*from digicmb, 2 months ago in Health & Medicine46 slides | 1 favorite | Download

Related: http://digicmb.blogspot.nl/2012/11/nvmo-2012-dutch-medical-education.html

The Power of a Linkresolver : PubMed & SFX Ex Libris

2013-01-11T17:25:00.002+01:00

In my opinion linkresolvers like SFX from Ex Libris have been libraries saviors for visibility and findability in the ever expanding webification of information.

Findings show users are moving away more and more from library websites and find scholarly information in big freely available search engines like Google Scholar.

Linkresolvers are contributing largely in the awareness that libraries are responsible for making the information available and accessible for their patrons. They connect information on the web with the local library and the library services. Without linkresolvers the idea that all information is free and in fulltext available for everybody on the web would have become an idée fixe by all (and not just by many which is the case right now...;-)

I have been tracking the use of out preferred linkresolver SFX for years in relation to PubMed and wrote some posts about the use and functionality in the past :

Here is the 2013 update on the use of PUBMED wíth Get it!, our Outside-tool, the SFX-linker (previously called "RUGlinks").
The special URL turns on our library’s Outside Tool for every record displayed in PubMed.

In 2012 it was clicked: 286893 times

Unfortunately we do not have the full data for 2010 ( 276.897 in oktober 2010) and 2011. The 2009 amount was exceptional. I think we can conclude that there seems to be a steady amount of clicks per year now with no big growth to be expected.

The questions are:

Is there another tool getting more popular (UpToDate, Google Scholar ...) to get to PubMed data?
Are other databases used more frequently to find biomedical scientific information?
Are people getting to PubMed more WITHOUT using the right url?

People click the special URL with our Outside Tool username on average:

• 786 times per day

• 32 times per hour

• every 111 seconds somebody clicks TO PubMed with this URL!

(See previous posts for more details)
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Even more interesting is the numbers of users actually CLICKing on our library’s Outside Tool icon, on average:

• 1109 times per day
• 46 times per hour
• every 79 seconds somebody clicks the GET IT! icon in PUBMED to get access to the fulltext and see info about the availability of the specific document.

•Total 2012: 404833

SFX from Ex Libris is also used at University of Groningen Library and the Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen to:

find E-Journals: A-Z Titles, By category, Locate by Vendor/Category

create persistent Citation Links: Citation Linker

An customizable advanced LinkResolver Menu to fulltext, other library and scholarly services

create an xml-holdings file to activate PubMed Linkout tool and make library collection and fulltext availability direct visible
(more on this later, read also: PubMed Updates : Linkout & Filters & New records)
create an xml-holdings file to activate the OpenURL Get It visible in Google Scholar. IN Settings of Google Scholar users can set their preferred Library to connect with and again, make the library visible for the user to contact directly.

Search Smarter with Google II

2012-12-27T14:49:00.001+01:00

Last week I presented Part II of Search Smarter with Google in one of the "Kennissessies"( Knowledge Exchange session) of the University of Groningen Library for library staff.
It lists various topics new to Google search or related to Google search products.
The slides are out on Slideshare.net (and even featured on their frontpage as of wednesday 26.12.2012 for about 16-20 hours according to their email)
(It boosted the number of views hugely from around 280 till 1081 in 15 hours, ok i tweeted and shared it an Facebook too ...)
In order to keep up with new interesting Google Search related issues, I am curating a Scoop.it Topic.
It give me powerful options to generate a relevant amount of quality posts, news, tweets ...etc to a) keep up myself and b) to share with others in this pleasant format of Scoop.it
Try it yourself and if you have content to share yourself, suggest it to me via Scoop.it.

Search smarter with google 2 from Guus van den Brekel

This is Part I

Search smarter with Google from Guus van den Brekel

I am still working on the new Prezi for our Library Course ...

F1000 Posters : UMCG Institutional Portal

2012-12-12T12:14:00.002+01:00

We are now adding posters in a growing rate, as we are contacting authors with paper posters hanging in the hallways of the hospital. And we are getting good response!

So, it is important we publish about the new available posters and presentations in the F1000 UMCG Institutional Portal.

For this the F1000 site really lacks a good RSS functionality!

To make some kind of workflow and updating possible we now run new Posters and Talks of UMCG via a Scoop.it Topic

http://www.scoop.it/t/posters-presentations-by-umcg-staff

And the RSS of the Scoop.it topic we import into our Blog about the scientific output of the UMCG in general.

http://atumcg.cmb.med.rug.nl

As of today we started publishing the posters deposited into F1000 on this platform too!

Promotion of Scientific Output : made possible by your library | my EMTACL12 talk

2012-12-09T20:18:00.002+01:00

Guus van den Brekel: Promoting scientific output : made possible by your library! EMTACL12

Location A
Old services in new clothes
2 October, 15:30-16:00

Slideshare of presentation:
slideshare.net/digicmb/promotion-of-scientific-output-made-possible-by-your-library

Link to Flickr photos:
flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=emtacl12+guus&m=text

Lending out iPads to Medical Staff : my #online12 talk

2012-11-26T17:00:00.001+01:00

LENDING IPADS TO MEDICAL STAFF: INTEGRATING IN INFORMATION WORKFLOW from Guus van den Brekel

The Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen started to lend iPads to clinical and research staff in Februari 2011.
We brought this new innovative technology to them to engage them in an experience that most certainly would affect their daily workflow in patient care, research or education.

The iPads were pre-loaded with apps on workflow, communication, medical specialities, journals, books and library resources.

It brought the library many useful direct user contacts as the iPads were exchanged only with a initial personal "briefing" ánd a de-briefing meeting when the iPads were returned.
One of our goals for this project was to learn where the library's focus should be for the next years regarding mobile technology & library services.
This talk will explain how pro-active projects like lending out iPads to patrons, can have a huge impact on the user's perception of the library. Throughout the whole organization the library became the first stop to go, for anything related to the use of iPads or other tablets.
I will picture what elements for libraries will be important in the next years to keep up to date, to maintain an important player in your organization to conclude with solid predictions for future trends your library simpy can not ignore!

Key learning points:
1 - You can change the way people look at the library by engaging in pro-active projects focussed on information workflow
2- Libraries can play an important role in driving technological innovation in your organisation
3 - Lending out iPads to library patrons is the best pr & marketing activity for libraries since the invention of "sliced bread"!

http://www.online-information.co.uk/static/track-1-tablets-in-the-workplace

Interactive Poster by StudentBureau UMCG : touch and swipe me!

2012-11-26T16:52:00.002+01:00

During the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Dutch Medical Education Association (NVMO) an innovative concept of a poster was presented by Jan Pols and Annelies Muurman (StudentenBureau UMCG)

Here is a short YouTube movie, shot by me (in Dutch):

More info

E14.4 De poster ná 2012: werken met studenten uit andere studierichtingen
Pols J, Muurman A, Boer J de, Sanroesdi ER, Buiter DJ
UMC Groningen, Hanzehogeschool

NVMO 2012 : the Dutch Medical Education Association Annual Meeting

2012-11-26T16:00:00.001+01:00

The Dutch Medical Education Association had it's yearly event and it was my first time there!
I was there partly to present our experiences with the "iPads on Loan" -project of the CMB, UMCG in a joint-session with an Anatomy teacher (Peter Room) & medical student Rens Teeuwen.
(watch our three slide-sets)

Observation: there was hardly any knowledge about the excistence of Slideshare.net or Authorstream.com among the people I spoke to at the conference (mostly medical educators/teachers). I did not even start about the medicine focussed SLIDEWORLD.org, which is unluckily infested with adverts.
(It is not to be confused with Slideworld.COM, which pretends to be thé Search Engine for presentations.)

Here is my contribution (in Dutch):

Te leen : iPads | NVMO Rondetafel over Tablets from Guus van den Brekel

I attended two interesting sessions worth mentioning:

"Augmented reality" in het medisch onderwijs. After a short clear intro into about what AR actually is and how it is used at the moment, we engaged in a couple of debates around key-issues. I hope to get my hands on the slides soon! Some pictures about their session are in this Flickr-set. They used the JUNAIO App to view a prepared AR-example on A4.

Werkgroep E-Learning about technology & blended learning with a nice historical overview and discussion on 4 scenario's mixed out of 4 elements: Local, Global, Individual & group learning.

Custom Search F1000 Posters

2012-11-09T12:59:00.001+01:00

The Open Access UMCG Poster Portal project is growing steadily. The collaboration with F1000 resulted in the first ever Institutional Portal within F1000 for the University Medical Center Groningen. There is still an ongoing process of improving and exploration between the CMB and F1000.

In summary, here's what is possible:

uploaded posters & slides are connected to relevant Departments of the UMCG
one can search within the UMCG posters/slides
filter for just posters or presentations
resulting articles can be connected to posters/slides
relevant faculty topics are visible
we have a branded page for the UMCG, including a promotional banner & sidebanner with 5 related links,
Conferences by UMCG can be facilitated in hosting and publishing their posters and slides for years on, including settings for publication embargo's.
all posters and slides are published with
This poster is open access subject to the CC BY Creative Commons 3.0 License
we added the Central Medial Library as Department and will be uploading our posters & slides.

As part of trying to improve the search feature of the F1000 Poster, I have created a Google CSE for the Poster section of F1000, making use of the fulltext search feature of Google. You can try it in the right sidebar of this blog or go there.

I did a quick search on some Dutch Universities, to see how many hits it would generate. These could indicate how many posters/slides are already uploaded by authors individually. (searched on 09-11-2012).

(Please bear in mind Google searches IN the documents too, results are just an indication. Also the F1000 search is not only searching in address fields)

University Utrecht: 44 (search: Utrecht) | F1000 Search: 14
Wageningen University: 18 (search: Wageningen) | F1000 Search: 8
"Amsterdam": 58 | F1000 Search: 11
VU Amsterdam: 12 (search: vu amsterdam)
University of Amsterdam: 18 (search "university of amsterdam")
Leiden University: 40 | F1000 Search: 7
Erasmus University Rotterdam & MC: 28 (search: Rotterdam) | F1000 Search: 1
Delft University of Technology: 2 (search: Delft) | F1000 Search: 1
Tilburg University: 6 (search: Tilburg | F1000 Search: 1
Maastricht University: 14 (search: Maastricht) | F1000 Search: 5
Radboud University (as Society): 49 (search: Nijmegen) | F1000 Search: 16

The custom search also has an IMAGE Tab to show the documents found visually.

Promotion of scientific output : made possible by your library (EMTAC12 Talk)

2012-10-07T20:35:00.000+02:00

On Tuesday, October 2nd I talked at the 2012 version (the 2nd) Conference "Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries, EMTACL12 in short.
Before I say something about it, I must add that this time -being involved as member of the International Programm Committee ánd as speaker , was an even more thrilling than the previous version EMTACL10.

In my opinion we succeeeded in putting in an impressive line-up of keynotes, a range of other presentations of which the overall level felt even higher than in 2010, and all this planned in perfect grouping with sufficient breaks long enough to really discuss with presenters and participants.

You can read my abstract of the talk. All presentations will become available on the EMTACL.COM site, including the video recordings.

Promotion of Scientific Output : made possible by your library from Guus van den Brekel

I am still writing on a summary of EMTACL12 .... to be continued..
Be sure to check out the EMTACL Facebook Page, and please Like it. Nice posts up there already, and more to come ... what to think of this Doodle by Patrick Hochstenbach!! (available also in EMTACL12 Flickr Group with more Doodles!)

(The educational value of the tablet-pc) | De didactische waarde van de tablet-pc | NVMO Round Table Session

2012-09-12T10:07:00.005+02:00

De didactische waarde van de tablet-pc. Eerste ervaringen met het gebruik van iPads in het medisch onderwijs. P. Room, A.J.P. van den Brekel, L.A. Teeuwen. UMCG, Groningen Round Table Session at NVMO Congres 2012, 15 en 16 november 2012, Maastricht

RONDETAFELSESSIE

Abstract: De didactische waarde van de tablet-pc.Eerste ervaringen met het gebruik van iPads in het medisch onderwijs.
P. Room, A.J.P. van den Brekel, L.A. Teeuwen. UMCG, Groningen.
Achtergrond:

De tablet is een computer die in de hand kan worden gebruikt. Voorzien van multi touch-scherm en hoge resolutie display is deze interactieve gadget bezig aan een spectaculaire opmars. Vrijwel dagelijks verschijnen er nieuwe apps (applicaties) die bruikbaar zijn in het onderwijs.

Maar hoe staat het met het gebruik ervan in het medisch onderwijs? Wat is het voordeel van de tablet boven de labtop? Zijn de touch screens wel zo intuïtief als beweerd wordt? Wat is de kwaliteit/prijsverhouding van de applicaties (apps)? Wat is het verschil tussen een iPad en een Android tablet? En misschien wel de belangrijkste vraag: wat is het oordeel van de gebruikers, in het bijzonder die van de studenten?

Anatomie is een zeer visueel ingesteld basisvak en op snijzaal wordt naast het kadavermateriaal veel gebruik gemaakt van modellen en anatomische atlassen, met alle beperkingen van dien. Dit voorjaar zijn we gestart met het gebruik van iPads voorzien van anatomie apps op snijzaal.

De Centrale Medische Bibliotheek heeft de laatste jaren iPads uitgeleend aan medische gebruikers.
De ervaringen met beide projecten vormen de basis voor deze rondetafelsessie.

Doel:
Het primaire doel van de rondetafelsessie is uitwisseling van eerste ervaringen met het gebruik van tablet computers in het medisch onderwijs door aanbieders (docenten) en gebruikers (clinici en studenten) met als uiteindelijke doel: meer inzicht in het onderwijskundig gebruik van de tablet.

Doelgroep:
De doelgroep bestaat uit al diegenen die geïnteresseerd zijn in de didactische toepassing van tablet-pc’s in het onderwijs.

Opzet:
Na korte inleidende presentaties van drie ervaringsdeskundigen (docent, medische informatie specialist, student) volgt een discussie over de sterke en zwakke punten van de tablet. Hierbij komen technische, didactische en logistieke aspecten aan de orde.

Maximum aantal deelnemers: 50

Programma in grote lijnen:
inleidende presentaties:
-P. Room, docent Anatomie, UMCG
-L.A. Teeuwen, student geneeskunde, UMCG
-A.J.P. van den Brekel, medische informatie specialist Centrale Medische Bibliotheek, UMCG

Gestructureerde discussie tav de ervaringen met implementatie, techniek, onderwijs, gebruikersgroepen, uitleenfaciliteiten, educatief materiaal, distributie, financiën, etc …...

Trefwoorden: tablet, iPad, didactiek, anatomie, app

Lending iPads to medical staff : integrating in information workflow | My #online12 Abstract

2012-09-12T09:58:00.002+02:00

Presentation Title : Lending iPads to medical staff : integrating in information workflow
Online Information 2012, 20-21 November, Victoria Park Plaza, London
See the rest of the speakers and the Programm (pdf)

Theorems

1	Libraries can play an important role in driving technological innovation in your organisation

2	Lending out iPads to library patrons is the best pr & marketing activity for libraries since the invention of "sliced bread"! (Thank you Oliver Obst)

3	You can change the way people look at the library by engaging in pro-active projects focussed on information workflow

The abstract	The Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen started to lend iPads to clinical and research staff in Februari 2011. We brought this new innovative technology to them to engage them in an experience that most certainly would affect their daily workflow in patient care, research or education. The iPads were pre-loaded with apps on workflow, communication, medical specialities, journals, books and library resources. It brought the library many useful direct user contacts as the iPads were exchanged only with a initial personal "briefing" ánd a de-briefing meeting when the iPads were returned. One of our goals for this project was to learn where the library's focus should be for the next years regarding mobile technology & library services. This talk will explain how pro-active projects like lending out iPads to patrons, can have a huge impact on the user's perception of the library. Throughout the whole organization the library became the first stop to go, for anything related to the use of iPads or other tablets. I will picture what elements for libraries will be important in the next years to keep up to date, to maintain an important player in your organization to conclude with solid predictions for future trends your library simpy can not ignore!

Promoting scientific output : made possible by your library! My EMTACL12 Abstract

2012-09-12T09:50:00.004+02:00

Here is my abstract for the EMTACL12 talk. Check the Programm!

Presentation Title Theorems 1	Promoting scientific output : made possible by your library! Promoting scientific output has huge impact on library, the organisation & their relationship

2	There are more ways of doing things than the corporate way!

3	Everybody wants or needs to make publication overviews : using blog and easy aggregation techniques is within every library's reach!

The Abstract	With the launch of a separate website focused on the complete scientific output of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) the visibility of these publications were improved considerably, as well as the awareness of them with the corporate community. Possitive side-effect was also the rise of the awareness of library’s resources, skills and services. Our large academic hospital publishes over 2000 scientific publications every year and it’s rising. The library has made massive resources available for all staff and students, but finding out who published what within the hospital, is not that easy, especially if you want to be as complete as possible. With the worldwide “battle of the ranking” between institutions in higher education, it is essential to make every effort to visualize this output of your organization. From the corporate point of view having that data easily available is good for PR and marketing activities ánd it is an answer to the growing call for more “open Science”. From the library’s point of view, it is very important to be seen as a partner to contribute to this task. With a minimum of cost and effort, the use of freely available web-technology and (social-media) plugins the library created “atUMCG” http://atUMCG.cmb.med.rug.nl It’s simplicity in design and content clearly appealed to many inside the hospital. It’s launch had a great spin-off for the library. The presentation will focus on describing this “controlled aggregation” website and it’s use in more detail, but also on all spin-off effects i.e, the great need and benefits of simple, complete publication overviews made available by the library.

EMTACL12 coming up in October! Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries

2012-09-10T09:52:00.001+02:00

There still is time enough to decide to visit the 2nd Conference on "emerging technologies in academic libraries", but why wait if you can book today!
Booking Flights & hotel rooms might become more difficult from now on....
Check the programm (Google doc at http://emtacl.com) to discover there is a really remarkable Keynote List:

Herbert Van De Sompel: "Paint-Yourself-In-The-Corner Infrastructure"
Karen Coyle: “Think Different”
Richard Wallis: “OCLC Worldshare and Linked Data”.
Brian Kelly: What Next for Libraries? Making Sense of the Future
Rudolf Mumenthaler: Innovation Management in and for Libraries
Eirik Newth: Forecast for the academic library of 2025: Cloudy with a chance of user participation and content lock-in
Rurik Thomas Greenall: “Defining/Defying reality: the struggle towards relevance in bibliographic data”
Jens Vigen: “Connecting people and information: how open access supports research in High Energy Physics. Since 50 years!”

This is a really special list of keynotes, but we have even more promising presentations. Check the accepted abstracts: http://emtacl.com/submitted-abstracts/

Register here http://emtacl.com/registration/
(and make sure that you too can visit the unique Rockheim, the national experience center for pop and rock, in Trondheim ;-) www.rockheim.no
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emtacl12 - emerging technologies in academic libraries

International conference on emerging technologies in academic libraries 2012

1-3 October 2012, Trondheim, Norway
<http://www.emtacl.com>
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Emerging technologies and evolving user behaviour keeps changing the rules of the game for academic libraries. Emerging technologies include new ways of using existing technologies and totally new, disruptive technologies. Examples include:
- Semantic web / linked open data
- Social media
- Augmented reality
- Mobile technologies
- Visualisation
- etc

emtacl12 is an international conference for academic librarians, information professionals, academic staff, students, library system developers and suppliers, among others. The aim is to provide answers to the following questions: What can academic libraries do to address change? How can we adapt? Which technologies can/should/must we use/create? The conference is hosted by NTNU University Library, the Library of the Norwegian university of science and technology in Trondheim, Norway.
The programme committee invites original presentations and posters taking one or more of the following perspectives as a point of departure:
- Linked open data and other semantic web applications in the library
- New literacies
- Supporting research
- Organizational change within the library
- Analysis of user behaviour and use of statistics
- New services/old services in new clothes
- Other relevant perspectives on emerging technologies

Conference dates: 1-3 October 2012
For additional information, please visit the conference website:
http://www.emtacl.com or email us at emtacl@ub.ntnu.no

atUMCG Update : Top 25% tag

2012-05-17T14:00:00.001+02:00

The University Medical Center Groningen has introduced a mechanism to evaluate research output by UMCG staff. Basically it comes down to: a better citation score in highly valued Journals gets rewarded.
Of course more aspects are taken into account, but those will not be the topic of this post right now.
Main focus is to stimulate researchers to target the Top 25% Journals of the relevant JCR (Journal Citation Reports).

The above picture is an illustration of how departments are promoting these articles. The Department Biomedical Engineering (BME) actually bought a stamp to mark the articles on their bulletinboard!
In an earlier stage our Library made lists available of those Top 25%.
We automatically publish all UMCG scientific articles and research-related news in our atUMCG blog since September 2011.
And now we added the Top25-tag to articles indexed in PubMed ánd were published in those range of Top 25% Journals.
From the Tagcloud all Top25 articles can be selected for further reading.

Search Smarter with Google

2012-05-17T13:30:00.000+02:00

Search smarter with GoogleA "knowledge exchange session" delivered to University of Groningen Library staff.

View more PowerPoint from Guus van den Brekel

Yammer and Social Media : a workshop for UMCG staff

2012-05-17T13:27:00.002+02:00

Yammer & social media workshop UMCGYammer seems to fill in a gap for a growing group of staff members of the UMCG. The workshop shows possibilities, features and hands-on practice.

View more presentations from Guus van den Brekel

iPads, Apps, Mobile & other services of the Central Medical Library UMCG

2012-05-17T13:25:00.000+02:00

iPads, Apps, Mobiel & andere diensten CMB A presentation for a Dutch group called Noordelijk informatie Netwerk. They visited the UMCG for a so-called "expert session".