Blog Buzz: January 21 – January 27

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Some topics getting buzz this week:

The debate on Avastin and breast cancer may have been rekindled by new studies.

The NY Times ArtsBeat covered a great example of innovation and the public use of digital library collections, which resulted in New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator, do-it-yourself 3D historical images!

Google’s announcement that it is putting 60 of its services under a single privacy policy and sharing data between them generated some buzz. This Washington Post/Bloomberg piece covers what is happening and how to close your account, while over at Scholarly Kitchen there is an interesting post asking The End of the Salad Days-Where is Google Headed Next?

Talk of the Research Works Act continues…an item by Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses Who gets to see published research?, and the Modern Language Association (both a publisher and membership organization) released this letter.

ARL Policy Notes posted why the Association of Research Libraries’ new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries is different from all the other recommendations out there.

GLAD4U is Now Available

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GLAD4U is an alternative search interface for locating specific gene information found within the NCBI resources. Developed by the department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, GLAD4U allows you to query the scientific literature to retrieve and prioritize a list of Entrez-Gene IDs. If any of the genes are found, their ID will be linked to the Entrez-Gene page, along with their score and position in the current GLAD4U list. You can also Click the link “see all supporting publications in PubMed” to open a new window showing all the supporting publications for each gene within PubMed. Results can be downloaded in an excel file, a text file or as a TAR archive (.tar.gz). Detailed documentation of GLAD4U can be found here.

To search this resource, click on the link above, or look it up using the MSKsearch search box on the Library’s Website.