Neuroscience
I just had two great librarians talk to my reference class, and I learned as much as the students did about government documents work and GIS / geography sources. Thanks to UConn's undergraduate and GIS librarian Michael Howser and Connecticut's federal documents librarian Nancy Peluso!
Nancy showed a fabulous feature of usa.gov, the US government's search engine. A search for the word widgets yields some amazing widgets, free for use on any web site.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has many widgets, including an FDA peanut recall widget, a National Flu Activity map, and a Daily Health tip (today's is a warning not to give birds as gifts):
This is also available in Spanish:
Other cool widgets that come up include:
... search for, oh, say, Wellbutrin & see what kind of information you get.
Take a peek at the search, too -- the results page offers a nifty preview option, displaying the widget right in the results page, and a "Remix" option on the left which lets you narrow results by topic, agency, or source.
There are some great free web resources here for libraries, health marketers, and others.
- Searching For Reliable Medical Information Online
My medical librarian buddy David Rothman created a nifty Web search box that "searches authoritative and trusted consumer health information and patient education resources recommended by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and/or by CAPHIS (the Consumer...
- Widgets! Libraries Need 'em
This is one of my favorite Giants, Osi Umenyiora. And this is an ESPN widget of him ... doesn't seem to include the postseason or the Superbowl (which is a shame), but it was *ridiculously* easy to add to this blog. Or, frankly, just about any other...
- Searchchat
Just read about a new search engine called ChaCha on Stephen's Lighthouse. It does search (they say it's real-time) and there are ratings / collections from various human guides on the results page. What I really like about it is the live guide...
- Best Of Gary Price's Nelinet Presentation
Cool sites I found at Gary Price’s presentation at Nelinet today: Google Video I know I’m the last to see this, but: way cool! Partly a competitor to iTunes video store, partly just cool stuff; you can download TV shows from here at $1.99 (I Love...
- Taxonomies Of Animals
Fabulous taxonomy / English-Latin name translator site for the Animal, Plant, Fungal, and 2 more kingdoms from the US Dept of Agriculture. ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, lets you search by common name or scientific name of just about...
Neuroscience
Government Web Site Widgets
I just had two great librarians talk to my reference class, and I learned as much as the students did about government documents work and GIS / geography sources. Thanks to UConn's undergraduate and GIS librarian Michael Howser and Connecticut's federal documents librarian Nancy Peluso!
Nancy showed a fabulous feature of usa.gov, the US government's search engine. A search for the word widgets yields some amazing widgets, free for use on any web site.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has many widgets, including an FDA peanut recall widget, a National Flu Activity map, and a Daily Health tip (today's is a warning not to give birds as gifts):
This is also available in Spanish:
Other cool widgets that come up include:
- San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District "BART" News Widget
- AmeriCorps widgets
- Business.gov Gadgets; their widget includes a search box and links to information helpful to small businesses.
- FDA Drug Information links, including widgets for drug safety information, Medwatch, FDA podcasts, and Drugs @ FDA
... search for, oh, say, Wellbutrin & see what kind of information you get.
Take a peek at the search, too -- the results page offers a nifty preview option, displaying the widget right in the results page, and a "Remix" option on the left which lets you narrow results by topic, agency, or source.
There are some great free web resources here for libraries, health marketers, and others.
- Searching For Reliable Medical Information Online
My medical librarian buddy David Rothman created a nifty Web search box that "searches authoritative and trusted consumer health information and patient education resources recommended by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and/or by CAPHIS (the Consumer...
- Widgets! Libraries Need 'em
This is one of my favorite Giants, Osi Umenyiora. And this is an ESPN widget of him ... doesn't seem to include the postseason or the Superbowl (which is a shame), but it was *ridiculously* easy to add to this blog. Or, frankly, just about any other...
- Searchchat
Just read about a new search engine called ChaCha on Stephen's Lighthouse. It does search (they say it's real-time) and there are ratings / collections from various human guides on the results page. What I really like about it is the live guide...
- Best Of Gary Price's Nelinet Presentation
Cool sites I found at Gary Price’s presentation at Nelinet today: Google Video I know I’m the last to see this, but: way cool! Partly a competitor to iTunes video store, partly just cool stuff; you can download TV shows from here at $1.99 (I Love...
- Taxonomies Of Animals
Fabulous taxonomy / English-Latin name translator site for the Animal, Plant, Fungal, and 2 more kingdoms from the US Dept of Agriculture. ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, lets you search by common name or scientific name of just about...