Ardito, S. C. (2009). The medical blogosphere. Searcher, 17(5), 22-51.

 

Ardito, S. C. (2009). The medical blogosphere. Searcher, 17(5), 22-51.

About how social networking trends are changing searching for health information.

PubMed Central Releases New Search Option for Embargoed Articles

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“With the implementation of a new PubMed Central (PMC) search option, you can easily retrieve both the citations for embargoed articles and their corresponding PMC reference numbers, known as PMCIDs. Because articles under embargo do not show up during a regular PMC search, this new feature is particularly valuable for authors and publishers who must submit PMCIDs as proof of compliance with the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy.”

Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net

Docuticker: Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net
Source: Center for Studying Health System Change

“Although suburban poverty has increased in the past decade, the availability of health care services for low-income and uninsured people in the suburbs has not kept pace. According to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) of five communities—Boston, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Miami and Seattle—low-income people living in suburban areas face significant challenges accessing care because of inadequate transportation, language barriers and lack of awareness of health care options.”

PHD Comics: Science News Cycle

PHD Comics: Science News Cycle

With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books – NYTimes.com

With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books – NYTimes.com

An expanding appetite for e-books has spawned a bumper crop of pirated editions on Web sites.

Irish student hoaxes worlds media with fake quote – Yahoo! Finance

Irish student hoaxes worlds media with fake quote – Yahoo! Finance

A sociology student added a fictional quote to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer’s death March 28, 2009.  It was picked up and reported by dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the inaccurate material even though administrators at the Wikipedia twice caught the quote’s lack of attribution and removed it.

“I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn’t come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up,” the student said. “It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact.”

“The moral of this story is not that journalists should avoid Wikipedia, but that they shouldn’t use information they find there if it can’t be traced back to a reliable primary source,” said the readers’ editor at the Guardian, Siobhain Butterworth, in the May 4 column that revealed Fitzgerald as the quote author.

Merck published fake journal :The Scientist [30th April 2009]

Merck published fake journal :The Scientist [30th April 2009]

“Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles–most of which presented data favorable to Merck products–that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure of company sponsorship.”

The city without a memory: treasures lost under collapsed Cologne archives – Times Online

The city without a memory: treasures lost under collapsed Cologne archives – Times Online

The archives building in Cologne, Germany inexplicably collapsed. Many unque and valuable documents were lost. No one yet knows why it collapsed. The building had once been regarded as a model for archives.

Ping.fm

Ping.fm allows you to post to multiple blogs simultaneously. This is a test posting. – SA

Docuticker » Blog Archive » FTC Staff Revises Online Behavioral Advertising Principles

Docuticker » Blog Archive » FTC Staff Revises Online Behavioral Advertising Principles

The FTC issued guidelines for online advertising. The report discusses the potential benefits of online advertising, including the free online content often provided, and it also discusses the privacy concerns that the practice of collecting personal information raises.