Who should own medical knowledge We are part of a grassroots movement of doctors and researchers who believe that medical research results should be a freely available public resource. Governments worldwide invest billions of dollars in medical research every year�the National Institutes of Health in the United States will alone spend $28bn (�15bn; �23bn) in [...]

Vinod Scaria has launched a beta version of Journal Central, a portal and search engine for open-access medical journals. The site is still under construction but already has separate lists of journals that are free for all and journals that are free for developing countries. It also has a useful subject index of all the [...]

Many information professionals, understandably busy with both day-to-day responsibilities and keeping up with our rapidly-changing field, may feel overwhelmed by the idea of making original contributions to the profession. One of the best ways to remain current and connected, however, is by taking the time to contribute through writing for publication. Our research and writing [...]

I saved TechnoBiblio: More mybrarian thoughts…. until I had the time to really read it . And I’m glad I did. The concept of a “mybrarian” as well as the real life Radical Reference team are exactly the kinds of things creative librarians should be doing. Libraries were created when all information was in printed [...]

Chronicle Careers is a subset of “The Chronicle of Higher Education.” It contains jobs from more than 800 institutions is a searchable and categorized database. My favorite part is that the categories have their own RSS feeds. You can let the job ads come to you. Chronicle.com – Jobs in Librarians/library administration (rss) Chronicle.com – [...]

The New York Times >In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards looks at the experiences of teachers using the technology instead of in-class discussions or essays. It mentions several advantages, such as involving the children in updates instead of the teacher being solely responsible and “leveling the playing field” so that all [...]

One of the most-cited reasons against the open-access model is that authors wouldn’t pay the fees to publish their articles rather than rely on traditional methods. Open Access News has a nice post on evidence to the contrary from journals giving authors the choice.

You can become a trusted information source. The more you add useful links to your weblog, the more you become a trusted source for information. For example, Oceana’s weblog provides useful and regular information from experts pointing to studies, projects, and other information that I would not be able to find on my own. I [...]

The Shifted Librarian: ALA OITP Is Blogging and RSSing! It’s for the Copyright Advisory Network

Weblog Tools Collection » Educational blogging as a research tool I believe that educational blogging is a very powerful vehicle to collect and aggregate research and assignment information as well as a powerful means to assimilate and search the stored information by a worldwide audience.