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Ongoing Medical Library R&D Projects

Wireless Networking Pilot Project for Laptops

Three wireless nodes have been installed in the Medical Library to study wireless networking on the medical school campus. The library has purchased a limited number of cards that will be lent to students during the pilot wireless project. We are also enrolling a small number of participants who already have their own compatible wireless cards.

 
Synchronize your PDA with the Wireless EthIR Lan Port in the Medical Library

At the Medical Library's Information Desk, you can now update Web-based services like Avantgo™ and ePocrates™ on your PDA quickly and easily over the university's high speed network. You can even perform a complete Hotsync across the network to a computer running Palm Desktop software.

 
 
THESISweb

THESISweb is a project to create a searchable database of Yale medical, nursing, and public health student thesis citations with abstracts, allowing students and faculty to rapidly locate theses by year, school, or subject, as well as conveniently read or print abstracts from a standard web browser. Using Reference Web Poster software to put the data on the web also allows students or faculty to download citations and abstracts into Endnote or Reference Manager. The Yale School of Medicine Office of Student Research and the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine are collaborators on this project.

 
 

Past Projects

 
 
Palm Computers and the Library

Medical Library staff members are researching how to make your Palm-size computer more useful to you when you're using the Library. We're doing this by evaluating the platform, applications that are out there on the net, and doing some programming ourselves. If you are interested in this, we want to hear from you -- particularly if you have application ideas or want to help us evaluate tools. Contact Matt Wilcox to get involved.

 
New Haven Health

New Haven Health is a project to create a Web site that provides access to resources describing the public health of the greater New Haven area. Current and historic statistics, documents, and photographs, directories of community organizations, and links to related Web sites are all included. This project is funded by the National Library of Medicine.

 
 
jake

jake seeks to support the management of and linking between online resources and descriptions thereof. It includes a union list of resources and relationships between them -- such as serials indexed in various databases -- along with title authority control in support of searching for and linking to resources.

 
 
Open Source Systems for Libraries (oss4lib)

oss4lib is the communications outpost for folks working with open source systems in libraries. Its mission is to cultivate the collaborative power of open source software engineering to build better and free systems for use in libraries. oss4lib includes links to information about free library software and a listserv for project announcements and discussion. oss4lib now lives at oss4lib.org.

 
 
DubMed

Dubmed is a GUI tool for searching Medline, and is part of a larger experiment in pragmatic digital library architecture design. It uses the Entrez query engine at the National Library of Medicine to interface to Medline data, and it dynamically links Medline citations to Yale-held full-text journal articles. Dubmed is written in Java, and uses Corba and XML for data and application integration. The Dubmed site links to documentation and technical details including source code.