A core skill for all physicians to master is that of information manager. Despite a rapidly expanding set of electronic and print-based information resources, clinicians continue to answer their clinical queries predominantly through informal or formal consultation. Even as new tools are brought to market, the majority of them present information in a rigid fashion, presenting cumbersome user i...

The coordination of resource and activity to achieve some common objective is a key task within modern virtual organisations. The Semantic Web initiative promises to increase the number of knowledge and information resources available, presenting more (and more varied) opportunities for interaction. However, as the number and complexity of these interactions increases, so too does the need for ...

Background Patients living with fibromyalgia strongly prefer to access health information on the web. However, the majority of subjects in previous studies strongly expressed their concerns about the quality of online information resources. Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate existing online fibromyalgia information resources for content, quality and readability by using stand...

Restriction of range occurs whenever design or circumstances abbreviate the values of one or both variables being correlated. Range restriction has an impact on score validity, score reliability, and statistical power. As a result, researchers need a more sophisticated concept of the relationship between.variance and correlation than the simple assumption that when variance goes down, correlati...

Use of the Internet in developing countries is now growing faster. Internet has created a new conduit not only for communication but also in the access, sharing and exchange of information among scientists. The Internet is now viewed as the world's biggest library where retrieval of scientific literature and other information resources are possible within seconds. Large volumes of toxicological...

As one considers all the elements and issues of an open publishing environment, it is helpful to understand one of the programmes that exist to enable access in lowand middle-income countries. HINARI arose to meet the stated need for researchers in less resourced areas of the world to have access to up-to-date information in biomedicine, since university libraries and research institutions in l...

Brute health information delivery to various devices can be easily achieved these days, making health information instantly available whenever it is needed and nearly anywhere. However, brute health information delivery risks overloading users with unnecessary information that does not answer their actual needs, and might even act as noise, masking any other useful and relevant information deli...

While astrobiology is apparently growing steadily around the world, in terms of the number of researchers drawn into this interdisciplinary area and teaching courses provided for new students, there have been very few studies conducted to chart this expansion quantitatively. To address this deficiency, the Astrobiology Society of Britain (ASB) conducted a questionnaire survey of universities an...

BACKGROUND Despite the long history, wide reach and unique influence of Black newspapers in many African American communities, no national studies have examined how these newspapers cover health and cancer issues, or reader perceptions of their coverage. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS A two-year national sample of Black newspapers (n=24) and community-matched general audience newspapers (n=12) was r...