Sunday, February 22, 2009

A Blog Carnival for Medical Libraries and libarian

Medlib's Round is a blog carnival for medical librarianship introdused by Laika's medliblog. It is "the “best blog posts in the field of medical librarianship”. Blog Carnival is a subject-oriented blog taht is developed by the regular compilation of the “best blogs in a certain area”. Medicine 2.0 blogcarnival, SurgXperience could be examples of such blogsphare contribution.As Laika stated well librarians also should have blogcarnival, and this the one. See Laika's MedLiblog for more information.

MedPedia

A new online health information resource has been launched February 2009 in the US. The Medpedia is a medical enclyclopaedia that only health professionals will be able to produce and edit the content for. Medpedia also is one example of collaborative web2.0 based information resources for medicine. It has been developed in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and Univerity of Michigan Medical School. There are three services currently available through MedPedia as follows:
• a collaborative encyclopaedia or knowledge base (a wiki)
• a Network & Directory for health professionals and organizations
• Communities of Interest where medical professionals and non-professionals can share information.