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Walaeus medical library @UBLeiden.bsky.social supports students, doctors, researchers and nurses in searching and retrieving medical literature, education on information literacy, OpenAccess and provides study spaces @LUMC.

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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
De eerste onderwijsweek zit er op ! De Medisch informatiespecialisten hebben les gegeven aan de studenten Farmacie, Biomedische Wetenschappen en de Half Minors Geneeskunde #LUMC #LeidenUniversityLibraries #Walaeus
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Vandaag was de officiële lancering van het Caecilia Instituut (Cluster 6) van het #LUMC Wij verheugen ons op een mooie samenwerking ! #Walaeus #UBLeiden Meer informatie op www.lumc.nl/siteassets/o...
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Deze week verzorgen de #Walaeus docenten weer onderwijs in het vak 'Biomedisch onderzoek in de geneeskunde' van Biomedische Wetenschappen. Dit in de vorm van hoorcollege (foto), werkgroepen en het inspreekuur (foto) #ubleiden #universiteitleiden #LUMC
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2025 Journal Citation Reports are available as of now ! See clarivate.com/academia-gov... and for #LUMC and/or @unileiden.bsky.social access go to catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31...
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Journal Citation Reports 2026: Supporting transparent, responsible journal evaluation
The 2026 Journal Citation Reports release is now available, offering updated journal metrics and continued support for transparent, consistent journal evaluation.
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wij zoeken een nieuwe collega ! careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Medisch-... Standplaats #LUMC #UniversiteitLeiden
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Medisch Informatiespecialist Auteursrecht
Medisch Informatiespecialist Auteursrecht
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
De locatie #Walaeus Bibliotheek #LUMC is dicht van 24 december t/m 4 januari Wij wensen u fijne feestdagen en een voorspoedig 2026 toe ! The University Library location #Walaeus at the #LUMC is closed from December 24th through January 4th We wish you happy holidays and a prosperous 2026 !
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Het introductiecollege systematisch literatuuronderzoek voor de tweedejaars studenten geneeskunde is deze week door #Walaeus docenten gegeven. #UniversiteitLeiden #UniLeiden #UBLeiden #LUMC
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Het CAT project voor de derdejaars studenten geneeskunde is deze week van start gegaan. Het college systematisch literatuuronderzoek van de Walaeus vond dinsdag 11 november plaats. #UniversiteitLeiden #UniLeiden #UBLeiden #LUMC #Walaeus
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Deze weken geven de medisch informatiespecialisten onderwijs in diverse halve minoren geneeskunde, de master farmacie en de eerstejaars biomedische wetenschappen. #UBLeiden #LUMC #Walaeus
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #publishers #retractions
Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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This week we launched the LUMC PhD Thesis Framework, which explains the general expectations for a thesis in Graduate School LUMC. | Bob Siegerink
This week we launched the LUMC PhD Thesis Framework, which explains the general expectations for a thesis in Graduate School LUMC. The framework makes the thesis a better reflection of the academic d...
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Clarivate Unveils the 2025 Journal Citation Reports clarivate.com/news/clariva... University Leiden access is via catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31...
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ZB MED - Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften @zbmed.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
ZB MED invites you! 🧬 We’re planning an open, reliable alternative to PubMed – and want to share our vision. 📅 12 June | 5pm CEST | Online Let’s talk about resilient life sciences infrastructure in Europe. Info + sign up: eveeno.com/informati... #OpenScience #LifeSciences
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Online information event ‘Resilient and independent life science research infrastructure’
Strengthening the resilience and independence of the life sciences research infrastructure in Europe is necessary regarding the risks posed by dependencies on US-based information services. ZB MED will therefore develop an alternative to PubMed.
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Found a cool new tool today, readme.so/editor. Great for your search documentation READMEs, if that is something you're doing. #medlibs
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readme.so
Use readme.so's markdown editor and templates to easily create a ReadMe for your projects
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Tom Langen @calocitta.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Here is the comparable list for NIH grants. It includes both HHS reported and PI-reported contracts. airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...
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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In my post about PubMed, I raised concern about what might happen with the committee that decides what journals are PubMed-indexed. They could open the anti-science/pseudoscience floodgates. This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/M... #MedLibs
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HHS Vulnerability Disclosure
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"AI 'Hallucinations' Are Changing Medicine—Should We Worry?" 📝"Recent studies show chatbots hallucinate 3-27% of the time #OpenAI & #Google aim to reduce errors, but AI continues to generate unexpected or nonsensical results." Yes we SHOULD worry😀 Talk to a #medlib www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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AI ‘Hallucinations’ Are Changing Medicine — Should We Worry?
While AI hallucinations can be risky, they may also help drive scientific creativity.
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Unexplained no-access from the #LUMC network to databases EMbase & EMcare Technical staff University Libraries Leiden is working on this issue
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Walaeus Library @walaeus.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Wij zijn gesloten vanaf 24 december (17:00 uur) tot en met 1 januari. We are closed from December 24th (1700h) until January 1st. Walaeus Library #LUMC Location of the University Libraries #Leiden Happy holidays ! www.bibliotheek.universiteitleiden.nl/over-ons/loc...
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Walaeus Bibliotheek - Universiteit Leiden
De Walaeus Bibliotheek is de medische bibliotheek van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden. De bibliotheek is gevestigd op de eerste verdieping van het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC).
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Judy Wright @jmwleeds.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
One of my favourite things - The Systematic Review Toolbox is back! systematicreviewtools.com Check it out to find software and guidance tools for different stages of #SystematicReview and #EvidenceSynthesis. There are currently 84 entries for software tools for searching! #medlibs
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It's #Day5 of the #AdventOfSearchingSkills in #PubMed! The #MeSHterm #Anxiety has some interesting narrower MeSH terms. Would you want these? Are they being searched when you search with [mesh]? You'll need to use the MeSH database: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/ GIFs welcome!
Locate the MeSH term for anxiety in the MeSH database. Note the MeSH terms in the hierarchy and the ones that are narrower. Are all those being searched when you search with "Anxiety"[mesh]?
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Day 4 of #AdventOfSearchingSkills in #PubMed! Use the systematic subset (I tell you how, it's field tag [sb], not to be found in the FAQs and User Guide!) to find the most recent #SystematicReview on caffeine and sleep. Post it here! #Day4 Use PubMed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In PubMed, use the systematic review subset (which is systematic [sb]) to find the most recent systematic review on caffeine and sleep. Link to the most recent systematic review (sort by!) and leave a GIF of your favorite caffeine delivery system, if you indulge!
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SRLibProblems @srlibproblems.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Here is your semi-regular reminder about how to #search for phrases that include stop-words in Ovid databases. I use this tip a lot! Simply add a truncation symbol to the stop-word (tip courtesy of the amazing UX Caucus tips blog: uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/2022/06/tip-...).
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Day 2 of #AdventOfSearchingSkills. What are the three main components of PubMed? There is a real, actual, non-ambiguous answer to this! You'll be using PubMed to answer this and all #Advent questions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov There's no prize, only social kudos and your honor! #Day2 #PubMed
What are the three main components of PubMed? In other words, when you search PubMed, what are you searching? There is a real answer to this.
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Day 1 #AdventOfSearchingSkills using #PubMed to learn! Try something new every day! In today's exercise, you'll do a PMID lookup to find an article, determine if the Cite generator does APA style correctly, and post a GIF that represents the topic of the article. Alt in image! #Day1 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Bokeh image, advent of searching skills, with a magnifying glass iconUse advanced search, MeSH database, journals, and the FAQs user guide of PubMed to learn these skills! At any point, answer with a GIF. Slide on a plain image.Plain slide, skills gained: mesh, keywords, field tags, journals, subsets, filters, searching, publication types, and reference questionsBokeh slide that says day 1 advent of searching skills: 

look up PMID 35654541 and check PubMed's Cite button for APA style. Is it correct? What needs to be fixed? Answer with your answer and a GIF that represents the article's topic.
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This starts on Sunday and continues every day through the 24th of December. My hope is that you'll learn a new tip you didn't know before that will be applicable for your own research. I focus on MeSH, field tags, PubMed content, journals, and more!
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say
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Dean Giustini @giustini.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The. #Names. Of. Things. Objects. Weird #Stuff. One of the cooler things about #librarianing is knowing all kinds of random things from helping people we serve find stuff. I used to spend hours looking at interesting reference books when I was in grad school. Still true today! #medlibs
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JBI @jbiebhc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🔇 We are delighted to let you know that a new chapter, ✨Search methodology for evidence syntheses✨ has been added to the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL... #EvidenceSynthesis
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱 On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans. A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve. @woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky
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Paul Glasziou @paulglasziou.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
AI for systematic reviews? “It seems to do OK with reading and assessing papers,” Clark says, “but it did very badly at all these other tasks”, Nature News - www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means?
Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm so, so, SO HAPPY to see a chapter on searching in JBI's updated Evidence Synthesis Manual that includes a number of wonderful librarians on the author team. My heart is happy! This can only mean good things! Nice work, all of you. jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL...
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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A fun, short read on Google Scholar features. Maybe some things we don't know yet #medlibs? blog.google/outreach-ini...
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20 things you didn’t know about Google Scholar
Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
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Journal of Information Literacy @jinfolit.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The winter issue of #IFLA’s Information Literacy newsletter has just been released. #InfoLit #InformationLiteracy
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Tracy @tcshields.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
👀 "PubMed search syntax now supports expanded use of the asterisk (*) wildcard character.... wildcards can be used in the middle of a term or phrase, and multiple wildcards can be used in the same term or phrase." #medlibs #PubMed #expertsearching www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbul...
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PubMed Update: Wildcard Search Improvements. NLM Technical Bulletin. 2024 May–Jun
The NLM Technical Bulletin is your source to stay informed about NLM products and services.
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Great interview with Jeroen Bosman about using OpenAlex instead of Web of Science or Scopus. Fully open data, and only getting better. www.uu.nl/en/backgroun...
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OpenAlex, a big step towards Open Science?
The new and free database OpenAlex seems to fit in with the Open Science ambitions of Utrecht University. An interview with Jeroen Bosman about the options OpenAlex has to offer.
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