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looks like the ama will succeed with a big push for a new “HHS Clinical Trials” database….in june, circa 540 american medical association members at the annual meeting unanimously approved a resolution urging the us department of health and human services to create a national database for all clinical trials and their outcomes…here’s the link [...]

okay, combing is old news. in plain english, it’s a term a lotta researchers use to describe the process of ripping off the hard work of other researchers…or more elegantly stated, “avoid wheel-reinvention by searching for other well developed resource repositories.” this is quite common for most researchers who spend a lot of time [...]

this was a small but very, very interesting little bit that the guardian put up a few weeks ago, had 3 different researchers using google, the phone and a library for identical questions, timed the responses…questions are listed below, full feedback and analysis of results

so i’m looking at the cia world fact book, wondering if a) they have bloody, stumpy little pension-protected fingertips from updating this thing weekly, or if b) they just buy the data from hoovers or the economist intelligence unit and import it all (honestly, i think that the eiu has some equally interesting and timely [...]

“The University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office, as part of the Federal Depository Library Program, created a partnership to provide permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions. This collection was named the “CyberCemetery” by early users of the site.