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Evaluation of the PDA-project at the Branch Library Medicine at Münster
No full textSince 2004, in a project the Branch Library of Medicine (ZB Med) offers a PDA service for its users. The service consists of eight PDAs on loan for four weeks, as well as a number of programs to install on the user's PDA. The programms for installation on the user's PDA were Medline search and TOC alert, Drug Interaction Facts (all OVID) and the Rote Liste (Editio Cantor Verlag Aulendorf). Within half a year, the programs were installed 154-times. Rate of satisfaction with the Rote Liste was an exceptional 1.58 (on a scale of 1-5, 1 = very satisfied, 5 = very dissatisfied). The Drug Interaction Facts followed with 1.75, Medline with 1.88. In the subsequent phase of the project, the main focus was on the transfer of licences to users. The list of applications has been extended to nine programmes: DDInnere, Yellow list, Herold - Internal Medicine, ifap index Pocket, ICD-10, Medline, Pschyrembel, Rote Liste, and UpToDate. With a survey of 186 users, this phase was evaluated in April 2006. Overall, the library transferred 570 licenses to their users. The five most popular applications were the Rote Liste (84%), the Herold - Internal Medicine (76%), Pschyrembel (75%), the Arzneimittel pocket (67%) and the Phone book of the clinic (63%) - all products offered by the ZB Med. 88% of respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with this offer, 11% are undecided and only one dissatisfied. The PDA service considerably increased the market penetration and the use of these applications. Before the PDA project the Rote Liste was used only by 8% of the PDA owners and after the project by 77%. This represents an increase of the 8.4-fold. The same also holds true for the DDInnere, Ifap index, ICD-10, Herold and the Pschyrembel. The Arzneimittel pocket is the only product that did not need this "helping hand": With 38% it was almost perfectly distributed. Compared with the respective printed books, the Rote Liste achieved best: 83% found the PDA version better than the printed book. The PDA-Arzneimittel pocket was preferred by 58%, the PDA-Pschyrembel by 53% and 46% by DDInnere. The Herold was the only PDA product, which compared worse to the book. About 92% of respondents praised an overall effective work by the PDA and 79% believed that the use of the PDA applications increased their knowledge advantage. 78% declared a better drug dosing through use of the PDA databases, 68% had better treatment recommendations and 53% were able to quicker diagnosis. 48% was helped by the PDA in test preparations. Hits and looser could be clearly identified in a comparison of importance and satisfaction with an so-called action portfolio. It turned out that the students were much more satisfied than the doctors: While the students marked four products with 1.57 or better, the doctors only marked the Rote Liste this high.In einem Projekt bietet die Zweigbibliothek Medizin (ZB Med) seit 2004 einen PDA-Service für ihre Nutzer an. Der Service besteht aus acht PDAs, die für vier Wochen ausgeliehen werden konnten, sowie einer Anzahl von Programmen zur Installation auf dem PDA des Nutzers. Die zur Installation auf dem eigenen PDA angebotenen Programme waren in den Jahren 2004-2005 Medline-Suche und Inhaltsverzeichnisse von Medline-Journals und Drug Interaction Facts (alles OVID) sowie die Rote Liste (Editio Cantor Verlag Aulendorf). Innerhalb eines halben Jahres wurden die Programme 154-mal installiert. Die Zufriedenheit mit der Roten Liste war mit 1,58 sehr hoch (auf einer Skala von 1-5, 1 = sehr zufrieden, 5 = sehr unzufrieden). Die Drug Interaction Facts folgten mit 1,75, die Medline-Zeitschriften mit 1,88. In der anschließenden Projektphase wurde das Hauptaugenmerk auf der Weitergabe der Lizenzen an die Nutzer gelegt. Die Liste der angebotenen Anwendungen wurde auf neuen Programme erweitert: DDInnere, Gelbe Liste, Herold - Innere Medizin, ifap index Pocket, ICD-10, Medline, Pschyrembel, Rote Liste und UpToDate. Mit einer Umfrage unter 186 Nutzern wurde diese Phase im April 2006 evaluiert. Insgesamt hatte die Bibliothek 570 Lizenzen an ihre Nutzer verteilt. Auf die Frage nach den beliebtesten Anwendungen waren die ersten fünf allesamt Produkte, welche die ZB Med im Angebot hatte: Die Rote Liste (84%), der Herold - Innere Medizin (76%), der Pschyrembel (75%), das Arzneimittel pocket (67%) und das PDA-Telefonbuch des Uniklinikums (63%). 88% der Antwortenden waren zufrieden oder sogar sehr zufrieden mit diesem Angebot, 11% sind unentschieden und lediglich ein einziger unzufrieden. Durch das Bibliotheksangebot konnte die Marktdurchdringung und die Nutzung der einzelnen Anwendungen zum Teil erheblich gesteigert werden. Die Rote Liste wurde vor dem PDA-Projekt von lediglich 8% der PDA-Besitzer benutzt, nach dem Projekt dagegen von 77%. Dies entspricht einer Steigerung um das 8,4-fache. Ähnliches traf auch auf DDInnere, Ifap index, ICD-10, Herold und den Pschyrembel zu. Das Arzneimittel pocket ist das einzige Produkt, das dieser "helfenden Hand" nicht bedurfte: Es war mit 38% schon vor Einstieg der Bibliothek nahezu optimal verbreitet, Im Vergleich zum gedruckten Buch schneidet die Rote Liste am besten ab: 83% fanden die PDA-Version besser als das gedruckte Buch. Das PDA-Arzneimittel pocket wurde von 58% bevorzugt, der PDA-Pschyrembel von 53% und DDInnere von 46%. Der Herold war das einzige PDA-Produkt, das gegenüber dem Buch schlechter abschnitt. Über 92% der Antwortenden priesen ein insgesamt effektiveres Arbeiten durch den PDA und 79% meinten, dass die Benutzung der PDA-Anwendungen ihnen einen Wissensvorsprung verschaffen würde. 78% konstatierten eine bessere Medikamentendosierung durch Benutzung der PDA-Datenbanken, 68% konnten ihre Therapieempfehlungen verbessern und 53% kamen dadurch zu einer schnellen und treffenden Diagnose. 48% half der PDA bei Prüfungsvorbereitungen. In einer Gegenüberstellung von Wichtigkeit und Zufriedenheit in einem so genannten Aktionsportfolio ließen sich Hits und Nieten eindeutig identifizieren und voneinander abgrenzen. Dabei stellte sich heraus, dass die Studenten wesentlich zufriedener waren als die Ärzte: Während die Studenten gleich vier Produkte mit 1,57 oder besser benoteten, erreichte bei den Ärzten nur die Rote Liste diese Zufriedenheit
Use of tablet computers for the study of medicine. Part 3: the project "easystudium"
No full textThe project easystudium is - after the projects Tablet-Kurzausleihe and easyphysikum - the logical third level and at the same time the last step of tablet services at the Zweigbibliothek Medizin. All students of human medicine and dentistry are provided with high-quality learning media and can borrow iPads until they get to the exam "Physikum". The evaluation shows in detail how the different learning medias are used during each semester. A portfolio analysis can identify cash cows and resources with potential.Das Projekt easystudium ist - nach Tablet-Kurzausleihe und easyphysikum - der logische dritte Schritt und gleichzeitig die letzte Stufe der Tablet-Angebote der Zweigbibliothek Medizin. Alle Studierenden der Human- und Zahnmedizin werden mit hochwertigen Lernmedien versorgt und können sich bis zum Physikum ein iPad ausleihen. Die Evaluierung zeigt detailliert, wie die verschiedenen Lernmedien in jedem Semester benutzt werden. Mittels einer Portfolio-Analyse können Cash-Cows und Ressourcen mit Potenzial identifiziert werden
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Medical Branch Library of the University & Regional Library Münster - local, online, and mobile
No full textThe Medical Branch Library is a subject library of the University and Regional Library Münster, and was founded in 1993 as the central medical library in the grounds of the University Hospital. Second only to the German National Library in Cologne, it is the largest medical library in North Rhine-Westphalia. The budget of the library derives mainly from the Medical Faculty. The funding from the university and from tuition fees is used to acquire textbooks. The physical library is used almost exclusively as a place of learning (by students), while the online presence mainly by researchers and physicians. The library offers since 1997 e-journals, since 2003 e-books and media for Smart Computers/Phones. It is using innovative ways for supplying journal articles, such as a virtual library budget and serving Subito for free.Die Zweigbibliothek Medizin ist eine Fachbereichsbibliothek der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster und wurde 1993 als zentrale Medizinbibliothek auf dem Gelände des Universitätsklinikums gegründet. Sie ist nach der Deutschen Zentralbibliothek in Köln die größte Medizinbibliothek Nordrhein-Westfalens. Das Budget der Bibliothek stammt im Wesentlichen von der Medizinischen Fakultät. Aus Mitteln der Universität und Studiengebühren werden hauptsächlich Lehrbücher gekauft. Die Bibliothek selber wird heute fast ausschließlich als Lernort benutzt (von Studenten), während die Onlinepräsenz hauptsächlich Forscher und Ärzte anzieht. Seit 1997 werden e-Journals angeboten, seit 2003 e-Books und Medien für Smart Computer/Phones. Auf dem Gebiet der Versorgung mit Fachartikeln geht die Bibliothek mit dem virtuellen Bibliotheksetat und dem Service Subito-kostenfrei innovative Wege
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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