Archive for October, 2007

Visual Medical Dictionary

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Guus van den Brekel, a medical librarian in the Netherlands, recently posted this resource to his Facebook page. It’s a visual medical dictionary that works like AquaBrowser:
http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do
Besides providing a visual connection between resources, it also does a great job of helping me find something if I spell it wrong. Example: Is it acetaminophen or acetominophen? Doesn’t [...]

“It’s A YouTube for Nerds”

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

That was the response I got from an inventor friend when I sent him this link:
http://www.jove.com/
and he’s right: it is just like youtube, only the videos are for scientists or those with extremely nerdy tendencies. This sort of information sharing needs to be on the radar screen of librarians.
The Journal of Visualized Experiments is a [...]

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