Hi #medlibs and anyone doing #ResearchSupport or meeting with students
How do you help the people who come to consult with you figure out how much time they should book?
@academicchatter

Funding bid for OLSPub, Germany's planned PubMed open safety net from @ZBMED submitted. You can sign up to register your support here: https://blog.zbmed.de/olspub-support

Institutional letter of support template here: https://www.zbmed.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Pressemitteilungen/2025/2025-05-05_LoS_PubMed_Alternative_ZB_MED.pdf

Background at my blog: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

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Has any #library licensed Kagi for its users?
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Hi #medlibs
Want an example of why you want to check retraction status at the publisher's website, not anywhere else?

Nurkadri, N., Akhmad, I., Suharta, A., Pujianto, D., Laksana, A. A. N. P., Siong, N. U., Hafiz, E., Setyawan, H., Hamsyah, K., Sabariah, S., Rufi’i, R., Shidiq, A. A. P., & Syafitra, V. (2024). The Role of Digital Smart Wearable Technology in VO2MAX Measurement to Support Athlete Performance and Public Health. Retos, 61, 1534–1545. https://doi.org/10.47197/retos.v61.110327

On the journal website, there's a prominent note: Article RETRACTED due to manipulation by the authors and citations

On ResearchGate and on "Dialnet" -- apparently a platform maintained by the Universidad de la Rioja -- no sign of the retraction. Both of those had a higher rank in DuckDuckGo than the journal website BTW

#medlibs #MedEd #EBM #EvidenceBasedMedicine
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/analysis-trumps-gold-standard-science-is-already-wearing-thin/

Hi #medlibs and #ukmedlibs and especially #EAHIL members
With the closure of the public health information group of EAHIL in 2023, are the librarians who focus on public health, population health, administrative data, social determinants, etc congregating anywhere?

Two reading recommendations:

Gamarel, K. E., Restar, A. J., Reisner, S. L., & Operario, D. (2025). Transgender erasure is a crisis for HIV science. The lancet. HIV, S2352-3018(25)00126-2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(25)00126-2

Lee, Stephanie. (2025). An NIH Grant Is Restored, With a Catch: Cut a Study on Trans Youth. https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-nih-grant-is-restored-with-a-catch-cut-a-study-on-trans-youth

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English-language international virtual meeting about OLSPub, the PubMed safety net plan from @ZBMED set for June 14: https://eveeno.com/information-event-olspub
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Today in "so that's what people think my job is?" #medlibs

I was looking at this
Lehr, S. A., Caliskan, A., Liyanage, S., & Banaji, M. R. (2024). ChatGPT as Research Scientist: Probing GPT’s capabilities as a Research Librarian, Research Ethicist, Data Generator, and Data Predictor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(35), e2404328121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404328121

Ok it's nine months old, but I do have a job to do other than keeping up with every AI paper

Update pour les Mastonautes qui veulent les dernières mises à jour sur les risques encourus par PubMed :
- J'ai publié une nouvelle version de la note aujourd'hui : https://zenodo.org/records/15481800
- Si vous voulez déprimer pendant 1h15, je suis intervenu sur le sujet à MediaM la semaine dernière, et c'est sur canal-u : https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/callisto/point-d-actualite-pubmed-sous-l-administration-trump-12052025

La grosse bonne nouvelle (qui est sortie après la vidéo), c'est le projet de la ZB MED de développer un PubMed européen ! C'est le projet OLSPub, détaillé ici (page en allemand et en anglais) : https://www.zbmed.de/forschen/laufende-projekte/olspub. La page est régulièrement mise à jour, et la ZB MED a lancé un appel à soutiens.

#pubmed #medline #medlibs

Hmm, I don't see AAMC on this list (but AACN and ASPPH are)
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@petersuber #MedLibs

@EASE
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This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @ZBMED just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open and independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @PLOS on the meeting & how institutions & others can help: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

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So, while I was pretty happy to get the alert from PubMed about new publications from this journal, I am less sanguine now that I've looked in to it
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Hi #EvidenceSynthesis folks and #medlibs
You have about ten minutes to give feedback to the ESIC people

Link: https://qualtricsxm45bq73zl3.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4bGY6aWrCu8fMa

The Stage 3 reports are at https://evidencesynthesis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ESE/pages/219217921/Stage+3+Reports

Since you don't have time to read them at this point, I will suggest some talking points:

1 The AI working group's suggestion of generic classifiers (to tag/retrieve/screen studies with a particular study design, population, setting, outcome, whatever) is one of the few ideas that are IMO both valuable and feasible

2 You can say that technical mechanisms will someday allow for an AI-led framework where human oversight is significantly reduced, yet evidence integrity remains uncompromised – but saying that doesn’t make people believe it.

3 Before we build https://xkcd.com/927/ in terms of literature databases, or ES data sharing standards, or ontologies -- let's reflect on the benefits of decentralization. Would the rest of the EBM world be worrying quite so much about US politics if not for the centrality of NCBI, NLM, PubMed, PMC, CDC, HICPAC, NIOSH, etc in global information networks?

w00t!! I've signed up for the German National Library of Medicine's open meeting next week (14 May) at 13.30 (Cologne time) where they'll discuss their plans for alternative PubMed infrastructure!

It'll be on Zoom, mostly in German. I'll report on the meeting (yes, I speak German).

You can sign up here:

https://www.zbmed.de/ueber-uns/presse/neuigkeiten-aus-zb-med/artikel/einladung-informationsveranstaltung-lebenswissenschaftliche-forschungsinfrastruktur

(If you have subtitling Zoom, that will work.)

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Hi #medlibs and others in academic #libraries
What are your collection development policies around books that contain medical misinformation and also are desired reading by your library users who are studying misinformation, political science, etc?

If you are wondering why your data librarians, medical librarians, and schol comm librarians just started profusely swearing --

NIH just moved up implementation deadline for Public Access 2.0 from December 31 to July 1.

For Open Access, it's yay, great, lovely. for implementation...there's swearing.

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy

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Hi #medlibs, want an example of unanticipated retrieval due to truncation?

It turns out that there is a beetle species named Alphitobius diaperinus (the litter beetle).

So if you search PubMed for
diaper*[ti]

You will get mostly papers about diapers and diaper rash, but you will also get some papers like

Carvalho, L., Ferreira, A., Barros, A. N., Carvalho, M. O., Matos, T. J. S., Raymundo, A., & Sousa, I. (2025). Sustainable Meat Alternatives: Incorporation of Tenebrio molitor and Alphitobius diaperinus Powders into Pork-Based Hybrid Hams. Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 14(7), 1192. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods14071192