The CDC is requesting public comments on the agency’s first research agenda, which sets research priorities for the CDC through the year 2015. The public comment period ends on January 15th.

Please visit http://www.cdc.gov/od/ophr/cdcra.htm to view the report.

Podcasting is a method of publishing audio programs via the Internet.

Greg Schwarz’s library-oriented show “Open Stacks” – promoting information access and literacy for all -

http://openstacks.net/os/

is an example of an ad-hoc or informal radio show.

A Selection of Other Podcasting Resources

How To

How-To: Podcasting (get podcasts and make your own) from Endgadget
http://tinyurl.com/3tran

How to Make an RSS/XML Audio Feed
http://audiofeeds.org/tutorial.php

Directories

Blast Podcast – http://blastpodcast.com

Podcast Alley – http://www.podcastalley.com

Podcatchers for Windows and Macintosh PCs:

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes

iPodder
http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php

Health Related Podcasts

Family Health
A daily series of radio programs. Practical & easy-to-understand.
http://fhradio.org

NPR Health and Science
In-depth reports on medicine and more.
http://tinyurl.com/b7xza

New England Journal of Medicine Audio Interviews
Audio interview RSS feed.
http://tinyurl.com/af9cx

The PubMed Clipboard will soon display an asterisk to indicate if items have been added to it. To add citations to the Clipboard select Clipboard from the Send to pull-down menu. For more information about this new PubMed feature visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd05/nd05_clipboard_full.html

The Directory of Open Access Journals, www.doaj.org, was launched in May 2003 and is hosted by Sweden’s Lund University Libraries Head Office. It is a “one-stop shopping” open access directory, providing no-cost access to the full text of over 1,900 journals, with over 400 journals searchable on the article level (over 80,00 articles available) — in the science and humanities/social sciences–and its directory is continually growing in size, as of November 2005.

Holly Ann Burt, Education & Outreach Coordinator in the Greater Midwest Region of the NN/LM has produced a really wonderful tri-fold about My NCBI. On a single sheet, it contains pretty much everything folks need to know in order to set up and use a My NCBI account.

The document is freely available for your use:

http://nnlm.gov/nnlm/online/pubmed/myncbitri.pdf

And, like most everything else produced by the NN/LM, it is not copyrighted. Please feel free to modify the document in any manner that will best suit your needs.

PubMed on Tap is adopting a new name, MEDLINE Database on Tap, or MD on Tap, or just MDoT. Our introductory client is available for PDAs and smartphones with Palm operating systems. You can download the Palm version 1.7 client from http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/mdot/downloadPalm.php.
We’re exited about two new options:
1. When the Auto Spell Check option is selected, ambiguous search terms are replaced with those terms suggested by an internal NLM e-spell utility for the actual search. The actual terms used are shown at the bottom of the Search tab.
2. As an alternative to the default PubMed search engine, you can select Essie, an experimental probabilistic search engine developed at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. Essie ranks results by relevance, then by date. These options can be combined with any (or all!) of the other search options. Also, a big, friendly “Go” button has replaced the magnifying glass as the icon to tap to execute your search. We hope you will try the new features and let us know what you think of them.

An equivalent Pocket PC client is under development.

Thank for trying MD on Tap and for your feedback.

The National Library of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Michigan Public Health Library & Informatics Division and Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, announces the release of the Public Health Information and Data Tutorial. This online tutorial, at http://phpartners.org/tutorial/, is a new tool designed to help the public health workforce effectively locate and use health information.

Google unveiled a feature that allows users to personalize the Google home page with features they use frequently. Like other new Google offerings you can try it out by visiting http://labs.google.com. For some more information on this new offering take a look at the following article from the New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/technology/20google.html.

Nonprofit health organization MedStar Health plans to deploy
PalmOne’s LifeDrive to some of its 4,500 physicians for
accessing clinical results and medical software; performing
tasks such as e-prescribing and charge capture; and for
viewing e-mail and PIM information.
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-2043-16-87-156780-231648-0-0-0-1

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj05/mj05_rss.html

Also, U.S. National Library of Medicine MEDLINE/PubMed Distributed in XML Format http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/licensee/data_elements_doc.html