P C R : Publish, Cite Cyagen and get a Reward of $100 or more !?
Thursday I got an odd mail from Cyagen. Cyagen offered me $100 or more in reward for citing their animal model services in an article. Even more surprising the reward was dependent on the impact factor of the journal I was publishing in. Cyagen gives the following example: If you published a paper in Science (IF = 30) […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - August 15, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: General Source Type: blogs
The Accidental OPL
My name is Alexia Estabrook and I am honored to be part of the group of fine librarians assisting Michelle Kraft with her blog during her tenure as MLS President. Some of you may remember me as the Medlib Maven from a while back. It’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged and I’m excited to be back.
I am the Librarian at Providence-Providence Park Hospital (PPPH), Southfield Campus, and have been a medical librarian for over 20 years now. When I started at PPPH, the library had a staff of 5 FTE’s and now we are down to 1.5 FTE’s. While I plan to write on a myriad of topics, my mail focus will ...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - August 12, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Alexia Eastabrook-Isely Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Mental health on, or in, film
A conversation at home about F.D.C. Willard reminded me of Ian McEwan's novel "Enduring Love", for reasons which will become apparent in a later post. There is brief mention of this novel in an earlier post about autobiography and biography as health literature, as it is a novel that deals with mental health issues.Looking for material on the web about the novel, I found the Minds on Film blog from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which has an entry about the film of the novel. This blog has been going for five years (there is an index, by health condition, of the first five years) and features structured re...
Source: Browsing - August 11, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: dementia mental health psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Another Kraft Worker
It’s an interesting idea to have a communal blog.
My name is Rob Penfold and like one of the other posters (Tobin), I also have a PhD in microbiology and genetics and funnily enough also worked in the malaria area.
I now work in a hospital library setting and hail from Down Under so perhaps can provide a different perspective.
Once, at the forensic library where I worked, we had a Crappy Craft day. My contribution was Krappy Koasters made out of Kraft cheese slices. This rather bemused the lucky recipient. This is my passport for being able to post to the Krafty Librarian blog. (Source: The Krafty Librarian)
Source: The Krafty Librarian - August 10, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Rob Penfold Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Evidence based practice for seven year olds
Or, "to rinse or not to rinse". Towards the end of last term, it was health week at my younger son's school. Parents were invited in to take part in a lesson about oral health, with the teacher and pupils talking about different types of teeth and doing some tasks. One was to use dental disclosing tablets to show how clean your teeth really were. Sadly I could not stay for this bit, but I did watch the video about cleaning your teeth. This included the advice not to rinse your mouth after you had brushed. I had never thought of this, but the idea was not to wash the toothpaste away,...
Source: Browsing - August 10, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: dental health EBP toothbrushing Source Type: blogs
Wearable technologies in a library setting
Next time you are at the gym, take a look around! Look at the people on the treadmills, the elliptical or even in the bikes. How many of them are wearing wearable technologies, like the Fitbit, Jawbone’s Up or the Apple Watch. Wearables are on the rise. Studies show that the markets for smart watches, smart glasses, personal health and fitness products will be worth USD 101.2 billion in 2018.
Wearables are not just for health tracking either. There are wearables that help companies track worker productivity (http://wearkinetic.com/); perform 3d scanning (https://www.fuel-3d.com/) and electronic glasses that help th...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - August 10, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Sharon Whitfield Tags: SmartPhones Technology wearables Source Type: blogs
Is there something odd about this paper?
Or cats and critical appraisal. I wrote in the previous post about F.D.C. Willard, co-author of a paper on low temperature physics, and actually sole author of another in French a few years later. Willard, as the lead author of the first paper, J.H. Hetherington admitted some years later, was in fact a cat, added to the paper as a reaction to editorial policy about the use of "we" when there was only one author. I used to do a drop in workshop for research postgraduates on critical appraisal, which I started after talking to one of the departments I worked with about whether there was a need fo...
Source: Browsing - August 8, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: cats critical appraisal Source Type: blogs
F.D.C. Willard, the cat who wrote papers
I had forgotten about F.D.C. Willard. Some years back, I referred to him in a class on critical appraisal, as a way into the idea that journal articles are not always what they seem.I was reminded, and delighted to be so, by The Scholarly Web column in today's THE (6-12 August 2015, p. 21), which was talking about the Academia Obscura blog, which mentions it.So, this is the story. This paper in Physical Review Letters, in low temperature physics, was written by J.H. Hetherington. The journal pointed out that its rules said that if there was one author, you could not say "we" did this or "we" found ...
Source: Browsing - August 7, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: cats journalology physics Source Type: blogs
MeSH on Demand
Does MeSH on Demand have possibilities for identifying thesaurus terms for use in a search, as I wondered if in a previous post?MeSH on Demand is here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MeSHonDemand.html. There is information about it in this NLM Technical Bulletin article. As a first test, I entered this text:The use of antibiotics to treat otitis media in children under 5. MeSH on Demand suggests: Anti-Bacterial AgentsAntibiotics, Antitubercular ChildDermatologic AgentsHumansOtitis MediaThere is a disclaimer that says that humans might have come up with different terms, and that MeSH on Demand might sugge...
Source: Browsing - August 4, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: literature searching medline pubmed Source Type: blogs
Identifying search terms
For any literature search, you will need to identify your search terms. What words or phrases are you going to search for? What thesaurus terms are you going to choose? If you are doing a detailed search for evidence for a systematic review, or doing a systematic search for some other reason, identification of search terms will include identification of synonyms, that is, alternative terms for the concept you are interested in.Here are some possible ways to identify thesaurus and free text terms, and synonyms. Scoping searchUse a PICO grid or similar to identify the search concepts, and search for those...
Source: Browsing - August 4, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: literature searching systematic reviews Source Type: blogs
Health vignettes
Health is everywhere, which is one reason why being a health librarian is so appealing and compelling.I made a journey through a particular part of my home city. At one end of the journey, shop staff were talking to each other about people they had observed through the window. There was a man who was having what might have been a fit, who then refused the ambulance that the shop staff called for him. There was another who tripped and fell on the tramlines. And there was someone who had fallen from their bike on the tramlines. If this has happened to you in Sheffield, you should put the details...
Source: Browsing - August 3, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
Bees and neonicotinoids, and choice of database
There are petitions circulating online at the moment about the effect of neonicotinoid insecticides on pollinators like bees, and asking for those insecticides to be banned.Neonicotinoid insecticides were banned, it is said on scientific advice, but now are not, it is said on pressure from the manufacturers and farming interests. I have been signing the petitions, having become interested in bees since we had tree bumblebees living in the roof of our last house, and as part of my general pottering in the garden. I have been involved in research into them and other pollinators by taking part in the University of ...
Source: Browsing - August 3, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: bees pesticides Source Type: blogs
Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV)
In the last hour or so up popped an alert on my phone from the Guardian, reporting that Manchester Royal Infirmary has closed its A and E department while it investigates two possible cases of this syndrome.A search of Google for news shows that many other news sources are reporting the same story.According to the Guardian, reporting Public Health England, there have been no new cases of MERS-CoV in the UK since February 2013. This is PHE's guidance, first produced in 2012, but still being updated. NCBI have a MERS-CoV Resource Page, giving links to their MERS coronavirus database and other NC...
Source: Browsing - July 27, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: MERS-COV Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Source Type: blogs
Hello!
I’m Rebecca Carlson, the Mercy College of Nursing and Health Sciences Library Director at Southwest Baptist University in Springfield, Missouri. I’ll be one of the guest writers sharing Krafty posts with you this year.
I am the solo librarian on the SBU health sciences campus and I work with faculty and students in our nursing and radiology programs. I wear many hats and have a lot of “other duties as assigned,” but I love the challenges and unique opportunities of medical librarianship. This summer I have been teaching an online class with a nursing instructor on professional writing and APA...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - July 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Rebecca Carlson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Getting Ready for IFLA Meeting
I leave for South Africa in two weeks for the IFLA meeting. I will spend the first week traveling with my husband, sister, and brother in law. My brother in law is South African so we are fortunate to have our own personal tour guide to take us around. August is winter in South Africa (highs of 60-70 degrees and lows of 40-50 degrees). It is chilly but coming from Cleveland, that ain’t winter, that’s spring weather in my mind.
As excited as I am about touring around the country that first week, I am just as excited about going to my first conference outside of North America. Along with this exciteme...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - July 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Other Medical Library Stuff Tales from MLA President Source Type: blogs
