mastodon 4.6.9Public health librarian in an academic medical library
Co-founder of Community Access to Ventilation Information, https://cavico2.com/, because everyone should have clean, safe indoor air
#EvidenceSynthesis
#KnowledgeTranslation
#PublicHealthInformatics
#DataSharing
#DataCuration
#InformationLiteracy
#Scholcomm
#OpenAccess
#HealthEquity
#EnvironmentalHealthLiteracy
#CO2monitoring
#PublicLibraries
#LibraryOfThings
#Accessibility
#COVIDisAirborne
FFS
NCBI has a perfectly good API. Why are scrapers hitting PubMed so hard that they have to put up captchas that waste my time and break my citation manager
one of my precinct's town meeting members responded very quickly when I contacted them and told me about the committee meeting. At least five written comments got submitted thanks to their info 🙏 (No not me 5x. Me and four neighbors, none of whom knew about the committee)
my state rep called me with very useful info and advice 🙏
now I know what committee meeting to go to to grouse about vanishing flexposts 🫏
Odds that the dog will, some time in the night, vomit up the spicy chickpeas she hoovered up when I dropped the dish?
Well I finally scoped out different car insurance options, and every single new company offered me several hundred dollars cheaper than the policy from my current insurer. So, as much as it's infuriating that I'll have to do it again in a year, it's good that I pulled myself together and sorted it out.
#LifeAdmin
#ExecutiveFunctionTheft
Why do journals articulate different article types but then refrain from giving you any convenient way to look at their "perspectives" versus their "commentaries" versus their "brief reports" versus their "letters" to figure out what the definitions mean in practice?
Hoorah hoorah!
ACS has finally sorted out Environmental Health Perspectives DOIs
or, wait
some of them are sorted, like https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp16791. And some are not, like https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp16791.
On the one hand: from spot 291 on the waiting list to borrowing the new #Murderbot in two days - hoorah!
On the other hand: I don't feel great knowing that my public library paid several multiples more than individual consumers pay for digital copies that "expire" after 2 years or 26 loans.
On the other, other hand: do I know anyone in #Illinois? Please call your state senator and ask them to support House Bill 5236, The Digital Library Protection Act. This bill, which passed the Illinois House 99-0, will prevent publishers from restricting a library's ability to determine loan periods, from charging libraries more than the public for the same item, or from limiting the number of licenses a library can acquire after an item is available to the public.
https://www.ila.org/advocacy/ready-set-advocate-ebook-legislation
#Chicago #Aurora #Joliet #Naperville #Rockford
Never mind -- apparently it's a known issue that the audio and captions only show up at minute 9 of the recording.
(Why that "known issue" took a 70-minute help chat to find out....)
Favor from anyone out there with an HBO Max subscription -- can you try streaming stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia and tell me if you have sound or captions? Thank you!
(not just sound in the preliminary ads, but for the actual program)
#HBOMax #HBO #Max #Giro
