Established in 1994 ScHARR's Information Resources team has established itself as a key national player in providing information support to health technology assessment and health services research. The team is made up of professional, highly trained Information Specialists who are involved in the forefront of research, teaching, support and development. This is our blog where we talk about the diverse work we do: #Teach #Research #Search #Support
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Monday, 22 March 2010
NEW - ScHARR Web 2.0 Course
Photo by tobiaseigen
Posted by Andy
ScHARR at the University of Sheffield is now taking bookings for the short course
28th June 2010 Web2.0 Part 1 - Collaborative working across sites effectively
7th July 2010 Web2.0 Part 2 - Creating and managing specialist automated portals and online reference management
The course will be led by Andy Tattersall and supported by other ScHARR members experienced in Web2.0 librarianship and information management.
Further details can be found at
For any enquiries relating to this course, please feel free to contact me at: a.tattersall@shef.ac.uk
Friday, 19 March 2010
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web
Posted by Andy
A year old, but still very relevant and presented by the man who gave us the World Wide Web...for free.
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
March Edition of Take Five
The latest edition of Take Five is packed full of new websites, research funding opportunities,training courses and current awareness.
To join the Take Five distribution list please contact me, Andy Tattersall by email a.tattersall@sheffield.ac.uk or phone 0114 2220702
You can view it here
Whilst an archive of the Take Five Newsletter and other research funding updates can be viewed here
To join the Take Five distribution list please contact me, Andy Tattersall by email a.tattersall@sheffield.ac.uk or phone 0114 2220702
You can view it here
Whilst an archive of the Take Five Newsletter and other research funding updates can be viewed here
Cool Tool #6 Wordle
*Click on the image to make it larger.
Taken from the Wordle website:
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "
The image above was created by importing all of the tags from our ScHARR Library Delicious bookmarks and putting them into Wordle -Hey Presto!
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "
The image above was created by importing all of the tags from our ScHARR Library Delicious bookmarks and putting them into Wordle -Hey Presto!
Friday, 5 March 2010
Research Funding Update - Fellowships and Studentships
Photo by r-z
Posted by Andy
You can download the latest Research Funding update by going to our Research Funding page or you can view it directly here.
For more information please feel free to contact The Information Service @ ScHARR Library on 0114 2225420 or by email scharrlib@shef.ac.uk
Previous issues of this update can be viewed here
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Books in ScHARR Library - by tag
Posted by Andy
There is nothing like serendipity, walking into a charity shop and finding that vinyl album of rare Japanese Psychedelic rock you'd always been after for £1.99, or going to the car boot and finding a genuine rare and expensive work of art, and looking in an online library catalogue and finding a book you never knew about. Ok, the first two are quite unlikely to ever happen, but the third one is, if you try of course.
Click on the tag cloud above and see where it takes you in our, at present, 'select' online but wonderful book stock. If anything grabs your attention, pop into our library and see it for yourself.
Click on the tag cloud above and see where it takes you in our, at present, 'select' online but wonderful book stock. If anything grabs your attention, pop into our library and see it for yourself.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The Trouble with Medical Journals by Richard Smith
Author Richard Smith worked for the BMJ for 25 years (and according to Wikipedia, is Arthur Smith's brother!!). In this book he maps out his own analysis of current and future trends in journal publishing. Anyone interested or involved in medical publishing should read it. To quote one of the critics:
"I suggest you drop heavy hints for this book to be added to your birthday present list"
Learned Publishing
Published by The Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd and now available to borrow from ScHARR library. please visit the 'new books' stand or check the shelves at Z 278 (Tro)
Happy reading!
"I suggest you drop heavy hints for this book to be added to your birthday present list"
Learned Publishing
Published by The Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd and now available to borrow from ScHARR library. please visit the 'new books' stand or check the shelves at Z 278 (Tro)
Happy reading!
Posted by Sonia
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