Monthly Archives: March 2011

Micromedex 2.0 Now Available

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Micromedex 2.0 is an updated interface that makes searching Micromedex easier and faster. The all new Micromedex 2.0 includes:

  • Advanced search functionality
  • Uncluttered, user-friendly interface
  • Results ranked by relevance
  • Direct links to summary-level and in-depth content
  • Single results page with dosage, cautions, interactions, comparative efficacy, labeled and off-label indications, and more
  • A 360 View Dashboard, which allows you to navigate through all parts of the site pertaining to one drug
  • Use the Other Sources button found on each detail page to navigate to DRUGDEX, toxicology lookup or back to the 360 View Dashboard
  • Mobile access via mobileMicromedex for the iPhone®, iPod Touch®, BlackBerry®, and other mobile devices

Blog Buzz: March 12 – March 21

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News of interest from the medical librarianship, informatics and oncology blogosphere:

  • Science blogger Kevin at We, Beasties urged scientists and researchers to contact their Congressional representatives to support continued funding of science by the U.S. government. Many programs, including NIH funding, are facing budget cuts.
  • Martin Fenner of the PLoS blog Gobbledygook discussed strategies for discovering conversations about new scientific articles using blog aggregators and microformats.
  • The Scholary Kitchen posted about a new report on peer review from The Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley. “If there is a general theme in this report, it is that academic publishing has yoked a system of distribution (journal and scholarly book publishing) to a system of evaluation (promoting and rewarding faculty), and that this coupling has resulted in a dysfunctional system.”
  • James Gleick’s new book The Information was reviewed in the New York Times last Sunday.