Tech Zone: National Library of Medicine launches “NLM Mobile”

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a new mobile website to serve as a guide to its mobile resources. Created in HTML 5, the site is accessible via all mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Microsoft, etc) and can be saved to the user’s home screen for offline browsing.

Resources are organized by Type, Device and Descriptive Tag. Each entry contains a brief description of the resource, a preview image, descriptive tags and the option to launch/install.

To access the site, go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile-app/ from a mobile device. You may also access the site, as well as other mobile resources, by visiting the MSK Library’s Mobile Resources LibGuide

To access this guide from the Library website, simply click on the LibGuides link under the Select Library Resources on the upper left hand side of the page.

Blog Buzz: August 4 – August 10

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Interesting news from the blogs and elsewhere this week…

Jonathan Eisen over at The Tree of Life gives a great analysis of the new Google Scholar “Updates” feature and gives it a 9.4 out of 10 when it comes to sifting through science literature for relevant content! Here’s more information from the official Google Scholar Blog.

Scientists at the University of Wyoming have discovered a possible new way to target certain genes for anti-cancer therapy using nematode worms. They used worms that carried a gene mutation “similar to one that is inactivated in some human cancers”. The gene is thought to be linked to tumor progression and cancer cell growth. LabSpaces has more about the study.

Have you noticed? In its latest issue, NLM’s Technical Bulletin highlights updates to PubMed Central, now known as PMC, and gives details about the popular site’s cleaner, more organized feel. Check out what’s new and improved.

To continue our coverage of the Open Access debate… Bo-Christer Björk and David Solomon have published “Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact.” As an open access article itself, perhaps not surprisingly, it is available for free from BMC Medicine.

Journal of Hospital Infection Available

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The library has recently subscribed to Journal of Hospital Infection. It is the official scientific publication of the Healthcare Infection Society. The journal seeks to promote collaboration between the many disciplines in infection control in different countries.

Journal of Hospital Infection has an impact factor of 3.393. Its 5-year impact factor is 3.411. 

Research areas include but are not limited to:

• Outbreak prevention in hospital or community settings
• Healthcare-associated infection surveillance
• Methods of prevention of healthcare-associated infection
• Prevention of infection in immunosuppressed patients
• Infection hazards associated with medical devices
• Role of medical equipment in healthcare-associated infection
• Disinfection and sterilization
• Cleaning, environmental contamination and its surveillance
• Management of clinical waste
• Laboratory diagnostics in relation to infection prevention and control
• Use of antibiotic prophylaxis in infection prevention
• Use of IT systems in infection surveillance
• Design of hospitals and healthcare premises
• Infection hazards associated with critical care units, or other specific healthcare departments

You can access the journal from here, or through the Ejournals and Ebooks MSKsearch search box from the Library’s Website.