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Mar
03
0 comments Tags: nih, open access, public access, scholarly publishing
April 7, 2008 will be an important day for scholarly communication. All NIH-funded research articles accepted for publication on or after April 7 must be deposited in PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. This and other changes to the NIH Public Access Policy will significantly… Read More »
Posted in: News from NLM
Feb
26
0 comments Tags: spool, usability
Does your web content suck? If not, maybe it should. Web usability pioneer Jared Spool delivered the keynote address “Why Good Content Must Suck: Designing for the Scent of Information” at the Online Northwest 25th Annual Conference last Friday in Corvallis, Oregon. Here are some key points from Spool’s presentation. Keep these concepts in mind… Read More »
Posted in: Technology
Feb
13
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EFTS, the Electronic Fund Transfer System used to debit and credit member accounts for the cost of interlibrary loans, was started in 1996 and currently has over 1200 participants. There are now EFTS libraries in each of the 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. In developing the service over the past 12 years, EFTS staff has… Read More »
Posted in: Resource Sharing & Document Delivery
Feb
05
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Have you ever wondered which blogs (other than the Dragonfly, of course) you should be reading? What about new journal articles? Podcasts? LibWorm can help you decide where to focus your attention. LibWorm is a search engine for library-related RSS* feeds. Feeds are organized into useful categories such as Medical Librarianship, Academic Libraries, and even… Read More »
Posted in: Technology
Jan
30
0 comments Tags: MEDLINE, RML Rendezvous, searching, seminar
Are you a new MEDLINE searcher or do you feel that you’ve forgotten some of those tips you learned about searching MEDLINE when you took the class years ago? Join us for this exciting distance learning seminar. The seven one-hour bi-weekly web sessions will help you get, or remember, tips and tricks for becoming, or… Read More »
Posted in: News From NNLM PNR, Training & Education