Reading Time: 4minutesImage by Roger Carvell, CC BY 3.0,
What advice would you give people starting a job in
publishing? What gets people thinking about their careers? I was invited to
participate in a panel for a major publisher, organised to present ideas …
You might say that Boolean is designed for humans, so the
title of this post is a misnomer. In this post I hope to show that Boolean search
is not a magic bullet. If humans miss terms, then Boolean will miss …
Some dictionaries are designed to explain what words mean. Some
dictionaries, like the Oxford English Dictionary, aim to record changes
in the the meanings of words over time, and attempt to identify the earliest
use of each word (or if …
The European Association for Health Information and
Libraries (EAHIL) annual meeting included a number of fascinating workshops. These
workshops were revealing perhaps for unintended reasons. What do health
librarians do? On the basis of this conference, they largely carry out
systematic …
At the EAHIL Conference in Basel today, a team from Cochrane
gave a workshop entitled “PICO Search: Unlocking the Cochrane data vault”. The
PICO principles are a four-fold way of interpreting a clinical trial:
Reading Time: 3minutes Nye Bevan, one of the founders of the UK’s National Health Service, and hence a very appropriate public figure for a healthcare conference, although looking here as if he was the inventor of the shopping centre.
This year’s annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (Cologne, April 2019) was remarkable for me in that it showed a dramatic renaissance of the world of search. Conferences labelled “enterprise search” have been running down or closing in the UK and …
From the picture above, UKSG looks like any other conference. Yet it remains something of an oddball, the odd man out of conferences. It is a large event – several hundred attendees, which means it is always held in a large-scale …
Reading Time: 2minutesThe Netflix home screen. Each time you open Netflix you are shown a suggested film. I’ve never heard of Lionheart and I didn’t want to watch it. Imagine Google always opening with a suggested page for you!
What were the innovations that emerged from the STM Innovations Day? Well, there weren’t any robots on display. This annual event is an excellent opportunity to take stock of academic publishing and its current concerns, although as we shall see below, …
