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Web 2.0 and Medical Librarians: Web 2.0 and Medical Librarians Tech, Search, & Books
By Greg R. Notess
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Overview: Overview Changing Librarianship
Web 2.0 Potential & Pitfalls
Search Overlaps/Updates
New Generation Challenges
Book Searching
Changing Librarianship: Changing Librarianship Organization
Teaching
Reference
Organize / Collect: Organize / Collect Increasingly complex
E-collections in catalog
-or- separate database
-or- only via PubMed?
OpenURL, CrossRef
Much still to solve
Teaching/Instruction: Teaching/Instruction One on one or Group
As we push our resources
Push instruction online
Screencasting notess.com/screencasting/
Reference Service: Reference Service Face to face & phone continue
Virtual increasing, via
Chat
Instant Messaging
Social networking
Two Sides of Web 2.0: Two Sides of Web 2.0 Communication
Frequent Focus
Wikis, Twitter
Blogs & Comments
Social Networks Web Services
Read/Write Web
Software Online
Sharable
Embeddable
protopage.com/websoft: protopage.com/websoft
Web 2.0 Potential: Web 2.0 Potential Online files
Access anywhere
Shared Editing
Zoho, Google Docs
Embedding Content
YouTube, Scribd
Comments, Community: Comments, Community YouTube & Other Video Sharing
Comment, rate, respond, embed
Presentations Online
Comment, embed
Scribd: Documents Online
YouTube & Scribd: YouTube & Scribd
Data Interchange: Data Interchange Embedding
searchengineshowdown.com/test/embed.shtml
YouTube Video on MySpace
Spreadsheet on your Intranet
RSS Feed for News and Website
Scribd Docs on Web Pages
Web 2.0 Pitfalls: Web 2.0 Pitfalls Blogs:
Quick Website
msusymposium
“Can’t find anything worthwhile”
RSS (Really Simple Syndication): RSS (Really Simple Syndication) RSS Potential
PubMed Alerts, News feeds
Quick communication
But how many use it?
Engineering Village
RSS feeds and Blog button
Wiki Wake-Up: Wiki Wake-Up Shared Editing
Rise on Intranets
Conference Wikis
Empty Wikis?
Forums?
Hype Meter: Hype Meter How self centered?
Blogs about blogging
Diggs about Digg
Wikis about wikis
Beware closed conversations
Searching 2.0/Community: Searching 2.0/Community Best: General Search Engines
Or Direct on Site
MySpace, Facebook
Del.icio.us
Technorati
& Other Blog Search Engines
Searching Current Interests: Searching Current Interests Tags at social bookmarking sites
Del.icio.us for tech and buzz
FURL for more professional?
Connotea for scientific
Searching Difficulties: Searching Difficulties Web 2.0 Content Unindexed
Embedded Content Not Indexed?
Scribd
ZohoSheet
State Libraries Example
Custom Search Engines: Custom Search Engines Google Custom Search Engine
google.com/coop/cse/
Swicki from Eurekster
swicki.eurekster.com
Yahoo! Search Builder
builder.search.yahoo.com
Google Co-Op: Health: Google Co-Op: Health google.com/coop/topics/Health
Need Account to Contribute
Current Stakeholders
Important Health Players
Multiple Medlines: Multiple Medlines Where Searched?
Google, Scholar, Scirus, Live Academic
Professional Audience Med Sites
Where Not?
Consumer-Oriented Med Sites
. . . Sometimes
Search Overlap: Search Overlap Between majors
Freshness of articles
Web search engines
Pubmed
Other Medlines
Google Scholar
"Chronic critical ischaemia of the legs“: "Chronic critical ischaemia of the legs“ PubMed on May 7th
May 26th , found in
Scirus
ISI Web of Knowledge Medline
But not in
Google Scholar
Live Academic Update Sept. 30
Still not in Web engines
Google, Live, Ask, Yahoo
But in Scholarly
G Scholar, Live Academic
“... infliximab of refractory pyoderma ...“ : “... infliximab of refractory pyoderma ...“ PubMed on May 16th
May 26th, not found in
Scirus
ISI Medline
Google Scholar
Live Academic Sept. 30 Update
In
Google Scholar
Scirus
Not
Google
Live Academic, Live
New Generation Challenges: New Generation Challenges Citation confusion
Varying communication
Citations: Why & What?: Citations: Why & What? Why need to cite?
What is the original source?
Example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine
No full text link: No full text link
Book Searching: Book Searching Amazon's "Search Inside the Book"
Google Book Search
Open Content Alliance
Internet Archive Text Archive
Live Search Books
Individual publishers' initiatives
Full Text Searching: Books: Full Text Searching: Books New information source for searchers
Searching, Not Reading
Think About Potential Uses
Limited Access, but Full(?) Search
Amazon Search: Amazon Search Limit to Books Database
Look for
“Search Inside” or “Look Inside” image
Excerpt
Google Books Search: Google Books Search books.google.com
Limited Access (May require logging in)
Sample Pages (with publisher agreement)
Snippet View (without agreement)
Full View
Or No Preview Available
Google, Amazon, Live: Google, Amazon, Live Have Old and NewBooks
Amazon: As Reprints
View Extracts Only, Log In to View
How Much Depends on Publisher
Publishers’ Sites: Publishers’ Sites National Academies Press
www.nap.edu
3,700 books online free
Search Well and Be Wise!: Search Well and Be Wise! Thank you!
Questions?