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Deze weken geven de medisch informatiespecialisten onderwijs in diverse halve minoren geneeskunde, de master farmacie en de eerstejaars biomedische wetenschappen.

#UBLeiden #LUMC #Walaeus

Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions

This week we launched the LUMC PhD Thesis Framework, which explains the general expectations for a thesis in Graduate School LUMC. | Bob Siegerink This week we launched the LUMC PhD Thesis Framework, which explains the general expectations for a thesis in Graduate School LUMC. The framework makes the thesis a better reflection of the academic d...

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Clarivate Unveils the 2025 Journal Citation Reports

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Online information event ‘Resilient and independent life science research infrastructure’ Strengthening the resilience and independence of the life sciences research infrastructure in Europe is necessary regarding the risks posed by dependencies on US-based information services. ZB MED will therefore develop an alternative to PubMed.

ZB MED invites you! 🧬
We’re planning an open, reliable alternative to PubMed – and want to share our vision.
📅 12 June | 5pm CEST | Online
Let’s talk about resilient life sciences infrastructure in Europe.
Info + sign up: eveeno.com/informati...
#OpenScience #LifeSciences

readme.so Use readme.so's markdown editor and templates to easily create a ReadMe for your projects

Found a cool new tool today, readme.so/editor.

Great for your search documentation READMEs, if that is something you're doing.

#medlibs

Here is the comparable list for NIH grants. It includes both HHS reported and PI-reported contracts.
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In my post about PubMed, I raised concern about what might happen with the committee that decides what journals are PubMed-indexed. They could open the anti-science/pseudoscience floodgates.

This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp

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#MedLibs

AI ‘Hallucinations’ Are Changing Medicine — Should We Worry? While AI hallucinations can be risky, they may also help drive scientific creativity.

"AI 'Hallucinations' Are Changing Medicine—Should We Worry?"
📝"Recent studies show chatbots hallucinate 3-27% of the time #OpenAI & #Google aim to reduce errors, but AI continues to generate unexpected or nonsensical results."

Yes we SHOULD worry😀 Talk to a #medlib www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Unexplained no-access from the #LUMC network to databases EMbase & EMcare
Technical staff University Libraries Leiden is working on this issue

Wij zijn gesloten vanaf 24 december (17:00 uur) tot en met 1 januari.
We are closed from December 24th (1700h) until January 1st.

Walaeus Library #LUMC Location of the University Libraries #Leiden

Happy holidays !

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One of my favourite things - The Systematic Review Toolbox is back! systematicreviewtools.com Check it out to find software and guidance tools for different stages of #SystematicReview and #EvidenceSynthesis. There are currently 84 entries for software tools for searching! #medlibs

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Locate the MeSH term for anxiety in the MeSH database. Note the MeSH terms in the hierarchy and the ones that are narrower. Are all those being searched when you search with "Anxiety"[mesh]?

It's #Day5 of the #AdventOfSearchingSkills in #PubMed!

The #MeSHterm #Anxiety has some interesting narrower MeSH terms. Would you want these? Are they being searched when you search with [mesh]?

You'll need to use the MeSH database:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/

GIFs welcome!

In PubMed, use the systematic review subset (which is systematic [sb]) to find the most recent systematic review on caffeine and sleep. Link to the most recent systematic review (sort by!) and leave a GIF of your favorite caffeine delivery system, if you indulge!

Day 4 of #AdventOfSearchingSkills in #PubMed!

Use the systematic subset (I tell you how, it's field tag [sb], not to be found in the FAQs and User Guide!) to find the most recent #SystematicReview on caffeine and sleep. Post it here!

#Day4

Use PubMed:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Here is your semi-regular reminder about how to #search for phrases that include stop-words in Ovid databases. I use this tip a lot!

Simply add a truncation symbol to the stop-word (tip courtesy of the amazing UX Caucus tips blog: uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2022/06/tip-...).

What are the three main components of PubMed? In other words, when you search PubMed, what are you searching? There is a real answer to this.

Day 2 of #AdventOfSearchingSkills.

What are the three main components of PubMed? There is a real, actual, non-ambiguous answer to this!

You'll be using PubMed to answer this and all #Advent questions.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

There's no prize, only social kudos and your honor!

#Day2 #PubMed

Bokeh image, advent of searching skills, with a magnifying glass icon

Use advanced search, MeSH database, journals, and the FAQs user guide of PubMed to learn these skills! At any point, answer with a GIF. Slide on a plain image.

Plain slide, skills gained: mesh, keywords, field tags, journals, subsets, filters, searching, publication types, and reference questions

Bokeh slide that says day 1 advent of searching skills: look up PMID 35654541 and check PubMed's Cite button for APA style. Is it correct? What needs to be fixed? Answer with your answer and a GIF that represents the article's topic.

Day 1 #AdventOfSearchingSkills using #PubMed to learn! Try something new every day!

In today's exercise, you'll do a PMID lookup to find an article, determine if the Cite generator does APA style correctly, and post a GIF that represents the topic of the article.

Alt in image! #Day1

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This starts on Sunday and continues every day through the 24th of December.

My hope is that you'll learn a new tip you didn't know before that will be applicable for your own research.

I focus on MeSH, field tags, PubMed content, journals, and more!

‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

The. #Names. Of. Things. Objects. Weird #Stuff.

One of the cooler things about #librarianing is knowing all kinds of random things from helping people we serve find stuff. I used to spend hours looking at interesting reference books when I was in grad school. Still true today! #medlibs

🔇 We are delighted to let you know that a new chapter, ✨Search methodology for evidence syntheses✨ has been added to the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL...
#EvidenceSynthesis

On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱

On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans.

A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve.
@woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky

Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means? Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.

AI for systematic reviews? “It seems to do OK with reading and assessing papers,” Clark says, “but it did very badly at all these other tasks”, Nature News - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm so, so, SO HAPPY to see a chapter on searching in JBI's updated Evidence Synthesis Manual that includes a number of wonderful librarians on the author team.

My heart is happy! This can only mean good things! Nice work, all of you.

jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL...

20 things you didn’t know about Google Scholar Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.

A fun, short read on Google Scholar features. Maybe some things we don't know yet #medlibs?

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The winter issue of #IFLA’s Information Literacy newsletter has just been released.

#InfoLit #InformationLiteracy

PubMed Update: Wildcard Search Improvements. NLM Technical Bulletin. 2024 May–Jun The NLM Technical Bulletin is your source to stay informed about NLM products and services.

👀 "PubMed search syntax now supports expanded use of the asterisk (*) wildcard character.... wildcards can be used in the middle of a term or phrase, and multiple wildcards can be used in the same term or phrase."
#medlibs #PubMed #expertsearching
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OpenAlex, a big step towards Open Science? The new and free database OpenAlex seems to fit in with the Open Science ambitions of Utrecht University. An interview with Jeroen Bosman about the options OpenAlex has to offer.

Great interview with Jeroen Bosman about using OpenAlex instead of Web of Science or Scopus. Fully open data, and only getting better.

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