The 2011 Thomson ISI impact factor for the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews weighs in at a healthy 5.715 placing it firmly in the top ten in the medicine, general and internal, category.  Read more

Jim Al-Khalili, physicist and presenter of the Life Scientific series on BBC4 radio, interviews Iain Chalmers who talks about what motivated him and others to set up the Cochrane Collaboration. http://www.cochrane.org/in-the-news/iain-chalmers-interviewed-bbcs-life-scientific

23things for professional development is a structured programme aimed at library and information professionals in getting started in social media, and lots of other clever stuff.   To quote cpd23 things “There is real a mixture of stuff: some web 2.0 and/or social media gadgets and gizmos, and some  ways of developing your career by more ‘traditional’, … Read more →

http://river-valley.tv/sharing-%e2%80%93-the-foundation-of-social-institutions/ Stephen Abram’s visionary’s talk at the recent UKSG will get you thinking.  Amongst the many thought-provoking things he has to say about the world that he anticipates is going into a five-year period of rapid change, the like of which none of us has ever experienced, is the gem he quotes that ”closing libraries in a recession is … Read more →