Watch a 3 minute video on Quertle, a biomedical database that focuses on finding conceptual relationships not just query terms, in a document. Quertle draws its data from sources including PubMed, Toxline, coporate white papers and grant applications. It contains a database of over 270,000,000 meaningful relationships. Continue reading
Library Holiday Hours: Christmas
The main Library, located in the Rockefeller Research Laboratories Building, will close at 5:00 pm on Tuesday, December 24th.
It will be closed on Wednesday, December 25th, in observance of Christmas.
The Library will reopen on Thursday morning, December 26th at 8:30 am.
The CyberLibrary, located in the Zuckerman Research Center, will be closed on Wednesday, December 25th in Observance of Christmas.
It will also be closed on Tuesday, December 24th and Thursday, December 26th.
The CyberLibrary will reopen on Friday, December 27th at 8:00 am.
The Library staff would like to extend best wishes for a happy holiday!
Nobel Prize Winner stirs the pot, science needs to archive data, and more!
Randy Scheckman (on top journals, the impact factor & open access), disappearing data, 23andMe craziness, and more…all in this edition of Blog Buzz!
- Nature News writes about a recent study which showed the rapid loss of original scientific data over time, yikes! A more in depth discussion of this important issue in an item from Scientific American.
- A recent study looked at the rate of publication (and time lag) following the presentation of abstracts at conferences in Medical Education, Publication results of abstracts presented at medical education conferences…from JAMA. Continue reading