Examples of social networking sites that might be useful to researchers/clinicians/academics...
NHS Evidence Facebook Page - http://www.facebook.com/evidence.nhs.uk
This is an easy way for clinicians to keep up to date with NHS Evidence news and resources, which may then aid them in practice and research.
NEJM on Twitter - http://twitter.com/#!/NEJM
Clinicians and researchers might like to follow the New England Journal of Medicine on Twitter. Article headlines or very brief synopses are tweeted, with the option to then click through to the article abstract/full text. This would be a really useful way of keeping up with new research whilst on the move, e.g. viewing tweets on a mobile phone whilst on a train etc. It is very easy to scan down the list of tweets and quickly establish which articles are of interest.
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Thoughts on blogs...
Whilst looking for suitable blogs for 'Thing 2' the following thoughts occurred to me:
- As with searching the general web, when searching for blogs you find a lot of rubbish! There are millions of blogs out there and you need to wade through a lot of 'stuff' in order to find a few gems (hopefully this isn't too reflective of my searching techniques!).
- Blogs (particularly personal ones) seem to exist as much for the author's enjoyment in creating them as they are for the benefit of distributing knowledge to readers (this one included!)
- When searching for blogs, search results are displayed in reverse chronological order in terms of date last edited, this is really useful.
Thing 2
A couple of useful blogs that may be of interest to researchers/academics/students/clinicians in the biomedicine and health fields.
UK PubMed Central Blog - http://ukpmc.blogspot.com/
This is useful for researchers, PhD students and health librarians wishing to keep up with developments in serials and publishing in the fields of medicine and the health sciences. Given that most of our users use PubMed as their default search tool, the PubMed brand is one that they already trust and are familiar with.
The Wellcome Library blog - http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/
This is very comprehensive and an excellent example of how a blog can act as a platform from which to access a library's other online resources. I particularly like the integrated library catalogue, the label cloud, and the link to the library's image collection.
A couple of blogs that may be of interest to librarians:
Social Software, Libraries & E-learning - http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/socialsoftware/
Phil Bradley's weblog - http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/
UK PubMed Central Blog - http://ukpmc.blogspot.com/
This is useful for researchers, PhD students and health librarians wishing to keep up with developments in serials and publishing in the fields of medicine and the health sciences. Given that most of our users use PubMed as their default search tool, the PubMed brand is one that they already trust and are familiar with.
The Wellcome Library blog - http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/
This is very comprehensive and an excellent example of how a blog can act as a platform from which to access a library's other online resources. I particularly like the integrated library catalogue, the label cloud, and the link to the library's image collection.
A couple of blogs that may be of interest to librarians:
Social Software, Libraries & E-learning - http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/socialsoftware/
Phil Bradley's weblog - http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/
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