| Come help us celebrate! This month is National Medical Librarians Month (NMLM) and a wonderful opportunity to highlight the fact that medical librarians can be your best resource when searching for health or medical information. This year’s theme is “Medical Librarians: Your Ultimate Search Engine.”
If you’d like to share a story of how one of the MSKCC Library staff helped you to find needed medical or scientific information, please drop me an email. Donna Gibson |
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Blog Buzz: September 24 – September 30
Out in the wide sea of blogs this week…
- The new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is available for pre-sale. Search Engine Land says Amazon is thumbing their nose at Google, over at ScienceBlogs Greg Laden thinks he may want one, and Jeffrey Young at Wired Campus gives some reactions from around the higher-ed web.
- Faculty at Princeton have unanimously adopted an open access policy – here is Wired Campus’ take
- NLM has released a Technical Bulletin about PubMed Health. Alisha764 had recently blogged about changes on the site (including a “Behind the Headlines” section); she sees it as a consumer tool and imagines it as a good tool for students and teachers.
- PLoS Computational Biology has this editorial about getting help from online scientific communities.
An Open Access Journal Added to the Library’s Collection
Open Biology is an open access journal published by Royal Society. It covers biology at the cellular and molecular level. Open Biology accepts research articles in cell biology, developmental and structural biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics. Continue reading