Protect yourself from information overload!

This is the holiday special post. Over the next 4 days, I will be posting instructions on how to set up alert for your latest search on the following databases; PubMed, Medline/Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane library. Also, I will provide some tips and trick on who to set up update alerts for some of your favourite journals or how to use RSS aggregators such as Feedly for this purpose.

Educational Apps

Are you looking for ways to evaluate educational apps and use them in teaching? Tony Vincent suggests several rubrics and checklists in his blog post. Simply select the checklist that would work best for you.

Introduction to ReadCube

Watch this video to learn more about ReadCube. It is a different way of working with PDF documents and organizing your personal library. I do NOT recommend using it for searching PubMed but it has so many other neat Features that it is worth exploring.
Happy Researching!

Altmetric.com tools are added to BioMed Central

Now you can find Trending Articles published with BioMed Central, Chemistry Central and SpringerOpen by researchers at University of Western Ontario. The 'donut' badge next to the article title indicates  when and where an article has been tracked by Altmetric.com (different social media). The donut is colour coded:

• blue for Twitter
• dark blue for Facebook
• yellow for blogs
• red for mainstream media
• orange for Pintrest, etc.   

You can even see who is twitting about the article and where it has been discussed. Click on the donut and then click on to see more.