beta.nejm.org: An Eclectic/Semantic/Innovative Journal
May 9, 2009
beta.nejm.org: An Eclectic/Semantic/Innovative Journal
On the [New England Journal Of Medicine] beta site, we pursue new ideas in publishing and showcase innovative ways to present information for use in medical education, research, and clinical practice.
[http://beta.nejm.org/]
New Projects List / Current Beta Projects For You To Test
Facebook Applications
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PowerPoint
Drag and Drop Images to Create a PowerPoint Slideshow
Search NEJM Online for medical images, then drag and drop to create a PowerPoint slide set you can save to your desktop.
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Try NEJM Book Reviews that let you click right over to Amazon.com
A way of viewing journal articles in tabs.
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Stay informed about recent and popular articles at NEJM Online by adding NEJM Gadgets to your iGoogle homepage.
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Beta Graduates List
Tested And Approved Projects Now Live On NEJM.org
NEJM Audio Summary With Slides
Test this option for listening to NEJM’s Weekly Audio Summary accompanied by slides
A Closer Look At Online Images
Test an option for viewing figures in context
Listen To Clinical Practice Articles
Listen to the complete text of selected Clinical Practice articles, FREE for a limited time on the beta Web site
NEJM Full-Screen Video Player
Try viewing our popular NEJM Videos in Clinical Medicine in a new full-screen player
Audio Interview Feed With Article PDF
The NEJM Audio Interview podcast feed now features downloadable PDFs of each article
New Search Interface And Engine
Experience a search that reflects community opinion
Most Popular At NEJM.org
Lists of what users are downloading and e-mailing, what the press is covering, what blogs are talking about, and what researchers are citing
New PowerPoint-Compatible Slide Sets
Review Articles, Clinical Practice, and Case Records of the MGH
Image Of The Week RSS Feed
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FAQs
1. What is the NEJM beta Web site?
beta.nejm.org is the place to see the ideas for new features that are brewing at the New England Journal of Medicine Online. On the beta site we will be experimenting with presentations of articles, images, audio, and video.
2. Why did NEJM start the beta site?
We are always coming up with new features to try that might not be ready for prime time at NEJM Online. Putting our new ideas onto beta.nejm.org will let us see which ones meet a need and which don’t.
3. What can I do on beta?
Check out what we are working on in the lab and see what has recently made it to NEJM.org. Polls and surveys are available so you can tell us what you like (and what you don’t like). Please come back frequently to find out what is new.
4. What will happen to these experiments over time?
MESUR For Measure: MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources
MESUR: MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources
[http://www.mesur.org/]
The project’s major objective is enriching the toolkit used for the assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data. The project has created a semantic model of the scholarly communication process, and an associated large-scale semantic store that relates a range of bibliographic, citation and usage data obtained from a variety of sources.
After mapping the structure of the scholarly community on the basis of the established reference data set, MESUR will conduct an investigation into the definition and validation of a range of usage-based metrics. The defined metrics will be cross-validated, resulting in the formulation of guidelines and recommendations.
MESUR Database
The MESUR data base now contains 1B usage events (2002-2007) ob
tained from 6 significant publishers, 4 large institutional consortia and 4 significant aggregators! The collected usage data spans more than 100,000 serials (including newspapers, magazines, etc.) and is related to journal citation data that spans about 10,000 journals and nearly 10 years (1996-2006). In addition we have obtained significant publisher-provided COUNTER usage reports that span nearly 2000 institutions worldwide.
The data is being ingested into a combination of relational and semantic web databases, the latter of which is now estimated to result in nearly 10 billion semantic statements (triples). MESUR is now producing large-scale, longitudinal maps of the scholarly community and a survey of more than 60 different metrics of scholarly impact.
Quick Facts
Funding: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / Timeline: October 2006 – October 2008
Principal investigator: Johan Bollen / Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) / Team: Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team of the LANL Research Library
People: Johan Bollen is the Principal Investigator; Herbert Van de Sompel serves as an architectural consultant; and Aric Hagberg of the LANL Mathematical Modeling and Analysis group serves as modeling consultants.
Marko A. Rodriguez, a recent PhD graduate at the University of California Santa Cruz and now LANL post-doc at the LANL Center for Non-Linear Science, has supported the project’s research and development. Ryan Chute of the LANL Research Library is now the project’s main developer and database manager.
Source
Documentation
Overview Papers / Lectures and Slides / MESUR Timeline / Metrics / MESUR Official Summary
[http://www.mesur.org/Documentation.html]
MESUR Publications
Articles / Lectures and Slides
[http://www.mesur.org/Publications.html]
Contact
[http://www.mesur.org/Contact.html]
Related
[http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/12/final-impact-what-factors-really-matter.html]
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