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Hacking ReadBurner URLs
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on January 29, 2008
You’ve probably heard about ReadBurner by now.The idea behind ReadBurner is that it aggregates counts of items that are frequently shared in Google Reader.First a point of clarification: ReadBurner doesn’t get its data directly from Google Reader in aggregate via an API- it gets the data from the RSS feeds of public linkblogs fed by Google Reader. This is explained on ReadBurner’s About...
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More MLA 2008 Slides: Ebling RSS
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on May 29, 2008
(I don’t care that Ratcatcher beats me to posting cool stuff. I’m gonna’ post ‘em anyway- they’re cool and deserve multiple mentions from MedLib blogs.)From the Ebling Library at the University of Wisconsin Madison:Also available as PDF.I also really enjoyed this poster from Ebling1:(Fair Warning: PDF is about 7 MBs)Lots more on this project from Ebling here1Pronounced...
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e-LiSe
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on June 17, 2008
Been meaning to post about e-LiSe since I saw the article about it in March.“e-LiSe (e-Literature Searcher) is an easy-to-use web-based application which finds biomedical information truly related to English words provided by the user. The program uses PubMed database of scientific abstracts as the source of data and a novel bio-linguistic statistical method (based on Z-score), to discover true...
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Web Geekery in Recent Literature - 2/15/2008
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on February 14, 2008
On the internet and patient education:Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2008 Jan;12(1):55-63.The internet: friend or foe when providing patient education?Anderson AS, Klemm P.James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.The Internet has changed how patients with cancer learn about and cope with their disease. Newly diagnosed patients with cancer often have complex...
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The Doctor’s Channel: YouTube for Doctors (again)
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on February 15, 2008
New to me, The Doctor’s Channel appears to be another video site for clinicians and scientists. Berci has a list of similar sites here.
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Article about Anne O’Tate (3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tool)
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on February 18, 2008
... such as the “most important” words found in titles or abstracts; topics; journals; authors; publication years; and affiliations. Clicking on a given item opens a new window that displays all papers that contain that item. One can navigate by drilling down through the categories progressively, e.g., one can first restrict the articles according to author name and then restrict that subset ...
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Human Brain Atlas
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on February 19, 2008
From Michigan State University’s Brian Biodiversity Bank, The Human Brain Atlas looks like just the cool sort of thing that anyone with an interest in neuroanatomy would like to play with.In this atlas you can view MRI sections through a living human brain as well as corresponding sections stained for cell bodies or for nerve fibers. The stained sections are from a different brain than the one...
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MScanner: a classifier for retrieving Medline citations
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on February 25, 2008
MScanner: a classifier for retrieving Medline citationsGraham L Poulter, Daniel L Rubin, Russ B Altman and Cathal SeoigheBMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:108doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-108Published: 19 February 2008Free full text: [PDF]Article is about a third-party PubMed/MEDLINE tool that I have not been able to make work, MScanner.[Other posts about third-party PubMed/MEDLINE tools]
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Video: Dr. Joshua Schwimmer on Google Book Search
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on February 28, 2008
A few weeks ago I mentioned a post from Dr. Joshua Schwimmer about Google Book Search in which he described a time when it proved extremely useful in a clinical setting.Google must have liked the positive exposure because they interviewed Dr. Schwimmer. The interview (just over two minutes) is embedded below.If you’re reading this in an aggregator or via email, you may have to visit the site...
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Cochrane Library Tutorial (video)
via davidrothman.net by David Rothman on March 16, 2008
From Lake-Sumter Community College Libraries:
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