“Scientificprogress is set back by faulty hypotheses and redundant researchthat is propagated by selective and erroneous citation practices. “ BMJ editorial on the consequences of inappropriate, inadequate and erroneous referencing of research articles, commenting on an article by Greenberg: “How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network” Fergusson D. Inappropriate referencing in […]

BBC Radio 4 has begun a new series of “Inside the Ethics Committee“.Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the ethical dilemmas facing patients and their medical teams across the country. This week “should patients with a phobia of operations be forced to have surgery?” Next week “Should a woman be […]

http://clinicalreader.com/ Clinical Reader is a new medical RSS aggregator. The service has a simple and easy to understand interface which is showcases the great benefits of using RSS to gather medical information. There are specialty-specific pages too, for example, Medical Students or Oncology, Please bear in mind that linking to the full-text of any journal […]

There are several Cochrane reviews of the evidence relevant to different aspects of the prevention and treatment of influenza. Plenty more information, particularly on swine flu, is available from a previous blog post. Plus, the Cochrane Library has just published Issue 3 of 2009 – see a list of the new reviews at www.thecochranelibrary.com

We’re pleased to be able to offer self-service printing in the library. buy printing credit from the reception desk (available in £10, £5, and £1 cards) send your pages to print – default setting is black & white duplex (double sided), but you can change this if you want collect your pages from the printer […]

Do you have a MyNCBI account in PubMed? (MyNCIB lets you save searches, set up regular alerts for new articles on your area of interest, and saves collections of useful articles) You might be interested to know that there are new features which allow you to make your Collections public, so you can share them […]

We’re pleased to be able to offer self-service printing in the library. buy printing credit from the reception desk (available in £10, £5, and £1 cards) send your pages to print – default setting is black & white duplex (double sided), but you can change this if you want collect your pages from the printer […]

This summer will see a change in the Medical Library’s printing and photocopying services. self-service printing double-sided printing (with the environment in mind) better quality photocopying scanners which send images straight to email Starting 6th July all printing will be self-service! check posters in the library for more details

The new Journal Impact Factors published by ISI Web of Knowledge are available now. “Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles’ cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal and category […]

NHS Evidence was launched is April to replace the National Library for Health – giving access to : high quality evidence, databases for specialist searches (Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE etc) – requires NHS ATHENS e-journals and e-books – requires NHS ATHENS specialist collections (formerly specialist libraries) on 33 specific topics (eg diabetes, kidney disease, public health, […]