Thank you very much for your participation – your comments will make help inform a very difficult decision. We’ll be making the prize draw shortly, and will contact the winners direct. Don’t forget – you’ve still got a few days before the NHS e-journals survey (http://tinyurl.com/onlinejournals) closes on 24th August.

Text Mining Hands-on course and Training Seminar – 5th-6th October 2009 The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the National Centre for Text Mining (University of Manchester) are organising a joint training event at the EBI (Hinxton, near Cambridge) The purpose of this event is to teach basic techniques in information retrieval (IR) and information extraction […]

At this time of year we must review our spending on journals. Unfortunately, owing to the reduction in funding for the next academic year, the increased costs of electronic and print journals plus the £:$ exchange rate, the Medical Library must cancel some of its journals. We have already been surveying usage of the paper […]

Monday 31st August 2009 – the Library will be open from 9.00am till 6.00pm

Here at the Library, we need to find out how people with NHS ATHENS logins use (or don’t use) the online journals we buy. Please help by answering five short questions at http://tinyurl.com/onlinejournals As an added sweetner, there’s a prize draw for a £20 Amazon voucher on 24th August 2009 – 3 chances to win!We’d […]

“Scientificprogress is set back by faulty hypotheses and redundant researchthat is propagated by selective and erroneous citation practices. “ BMJ editorial on the consequences of inappropriate, inadequate and erroneous referencing of research articles, commenting on an article by Greenberg: “How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network” Fergusson D. Inappropriate referencing in […]

BBC Radio 4 has begun a new series of “Inside the Ethics Committee“.Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the ethical dilemmas facing patients and their medical teams across the country. This week “should patients with a phobia of operations be forced to have surgery?” Next week “Should a woman be […]

http://clinicalreader.com/ Clinical Reader is a new medical RSS aggregator. The service has a simple and easy to understand interface which is showcases the great benefits of using RSS to gather medical information. There are specialty-specific pages too, for example, Medical Students or Oncology, Please bear in mind that linking to the full-text of any journal […]

There are several Cochrane reviews of the evidence relevant to different aspects of the prevention and treatment of influenza. Plenty more information, particularly on swine flu, is available from a previous blog post. Plus, the Cochrane Library has just published Issue 3 of 2009 – see a list of the new reviews at www.thecochranelibrary.com

We’re pleased to be able to offer self-service printing in the library. buy printing credit from the reception desk (available in £10, £5, and £1 cards) send your pages to print – default setting is black & white duplex (double sided), but you can change this if you want collect your pages from the printer […]