De locatie #Walaeus Bibliotheek #LUMC is dicht van 24 december t/m 4 januari Wij wensen u fijne feestdagen en een voorspoedig 2026 toe ! The University Library location #Walaeus at the #LUMC is closed from December 24th through January 4th We wish you happy holidays and a prosperous 2026 !

Het introductiecollege systematisch literatuuronderzoek voor de tweedejaars studenten geneeskunde is deze week door #Walaeus docenten gegeven. #UniversiteitLeiden #UniLeiden #UBLeiden #LUMC

Het CAT project voor de derdejaars studenten geneeskunde is deze week van start gegaan. Het college systematisch literatuuronderzoek van de Walaeus vond dinsdag 11 november plaats. #UniversiteitLeiden #UniLeiden #UBLeiden #LUMC #Walaeus

Deze weken geven de medisch informatiespecialisten onderwijs in diverse halve minoren geneeskunde, de master farmacie en de eerstejaars biomedische wetenschappen. #UBLeiden #LUMC #Walaeus

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #publishers #retractions

Clarivate Unveils the 2025 Journal Citation Reports clarivate.com/news/clariva... University Leiden access is via catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31...

ZB MED invites you! 🧬 We’re planning an open, reliable alternative to PubMed – and want to share our vision. 📅 12 June | 5pm CEST | Online Let’s talk about resilient life sciences infrastructure in Europe. Info + sign up: eveeno.com/informati... #OpenScience #LifeSciences

Found a cool new tool today, readme.so/editor. Great for your search documentation READMEs, if that is something you're doing. #medlibs

Here is the comparable list for NIH grants. It includes both HHS reported and PI-reported contracts. airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...

In my post about PubMed, I raised concern about what might happen with the committee that decides what journals are PubMed-indexed. They could open the anti-science/pseudoscience floodgates. This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/M... #MedLibs

"AI 'Hallucinations' Are Changing Medicine—Should We Worry?" 📝"Recent studies show chatbots hallucinate 3-27% of the time #OpenAI & #Google aim to reduce errors, but AI continues to generate unexpected or nonsensical results." Yes we SHOULD worry😀 Talk to a #medlib www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Unexplained no-access from the #LUMC network to databases EMbase & EMcare Technical staff University Libraries Leiden is working on this issue

Wij zijn gesloten vanaf 24 december (17:00 uur) tot en met 1 januari. We are closed from December 24th (1700h) until January 1st. Walaeus Library #LUMC Location of the University Libraries #Leiden Happy holidays ! www.bibliotheek.universiteitleiden.nl/over-ons/loc...

One of my favourite things - The Systematic Review Toolbox is back! systematicreviewtools.com Check it out to find software and guidance tools for different stages of #SystematicReview and #EvidenceSynthesis. There are currently 84 entries for software tools for searching! #medlibs

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

It's #Day5 of the #AdventOfSearchingSkills in #PubMed! The #MeSHterm #Anxiety has some interesting narrower MeSH terms. Would you want these? Are they being searched when you search with [mesh]? You'll need to use the MeSH database: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/ GIFs welcome!

Day 4 of #AdventOfSearchingSkills in #PubMed! Use the systematic subset (I tell you how, it's field tag [sb], not to be found in the FAQs and User Guide!) to find the most recent #SystematicReview on caffeine and sleep. Post it here! #Day4 Use PubMed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Here is your semi-regular reminder about how to #search for phrases that include stop-words in Ovid databases. I use this tip a lot! Simply add a truncation symbol to the stop-word (tip courtesy of the amazing UX Caucus tips blog: uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2022/06/tip-...).

Day 2 of #AdventOfSearchingSkills. What are the three main components of PubMed? There is a real, actual, non-ambiguous answer to this! You'll be using PubMed to answer this and all #Advent questions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov There's no prize, only social kudos and your honor! #Day2 #PubMed

Day 1 #AdventOfSearchingSkills using #PubMed to learn! Try something new every day! In today's exercise, you'll do a PMID lookup to find an article, determine if the Cite generator does APA style correctly, and post a GIF that represents the topic of the article. Alt in image! #Day1 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This starts on Sunday and continues every day through the 24th of December. My hope is that you'll learn a new tip you didn't know before that will be applicable for your own research. I focus on MeSH, field tags, PubMed content, journals, and more!

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

The. #Names. Of. Things. Objects. Weird #Stuff. One of the cooler things about #librarianing is knowing all kinds of random things from helping people we serve find stuff. I used to spend hours looking at interesting reference books when I was in grad school. Still true today! #medlibs

🔇 We are delighted to let you know that a new chapter, ✨Search methodology for evidence syntheses✨ has been added to the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL... #EvidenceSynthesis

On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱 On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans. A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve. @woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky

AI for systematic reviews? “It seems to do OK with reading and assessing papers,” Clark says, “but it did very badly at all these other tasks”, Nature News - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm so, so, SO HAPPY to see a chapter on searching in JBI's updated Evidence Synthesis Manual that includes a number of wonderful librarians on the author team. My heart is happy! This can only mean good things! Nice work, all of you. jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL...

A fun, short read on Google Scholar features. Maybe some things we don't know yet #medlibs? blog.google/outreach-ini...

The winter issue of #IFLA’s Information Literacy newsletter has just been released. #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy

👀 "PubMed search syntax now supports expanded use of the asterisk (*) wildcard character.... wildcards can be used in the middle of a term or phrase, and multiple wildcards can be used in the same term or phrase." #medlibs #PubMed #expertsearching www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbul...

Great interview with Jeroen Bosman about using OpenAlex instead of Web of Science or Scopus. Fully open data, and only getting better. www.uu.nl/en/backgroun...