E-science and biomedical libraries

Response to Neil Rambo's editorial: "E-science and Biomedical Libraries".

Making Biomedical Ontologies and Ontology Libraries Work

Today, it is impossible to contemplate successful biomedical research in the absence of canonical data structures. From primary databases (such as those found in GenBank and MEDLINE) to meta-data that describe the primary data (such as those in caBIO) or representable in languages such as DICOM and MAGE-ML (Spellman et al. 2002) to knowledge bases that codify biomedical concepts (such as the Ge...

"E-learning and e-libraries – Quo vadis?"

The objective of this paper is to discuss the implications of the model of e-learning for university libraries in terms of information organization and dissemination. The following will be discussed: • The role of the university library regarding the aggregation of content and resources, customization of information portals and value adding, and the changes in educational models. • E-learning a...

Biomedical science and human health.

I should like to begin by discussing the present condition of biomedical science. Viewed from the outside, the biomedical research activities in this country, in both clinical and laboratory science, give the impression of steady and solid financial support. In one sense the impression is accurate, since the institutions have received generous backing from the National Institutes of Health sinc...

Research evaluation support services in biomedical libraries

Objective The paper provides a review of current practices related to evaluation support services reported by seven biomedical and research libraries. Methods A group of seven libraries from the United States and Canada described their experiences with establishing evaluation support services at their libraries. A questionnaire was distributed among the libraries to elicit information as to p...