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May 20, 2009
Interested in a new kind of journal impact factor? Mendeley's on it!
I've written before about Mendeley, the tool that combines citation management with social networking. It's got a really cool feature that's becoming more important as the number of articles in Mendeley increases (more than 1 million now). Mendeley provides article-level usage statistics in real time, to create a new kind of impact factor. You can see how often the article is downloaded, shared, and the average reading time.
Thanks to Cameron Neylon for this image.
What this means: you don't have to wait years to see how often an article is being cited.
To see the complete post, click here:
http://www.mendeley.com/blog/2009/05/ologeez-founder-joins-mendeley/
Check out this video of a short presentation by one of Mendeley’s creators, Victor Henning, at the recent "Next Web" conference in Amsterdam.
Link: 
And remember that I'm giving a presentation June 10 on Mendeley in the School of Dentistry's IT Boot Camp series. Come to see it or look for it on SlideShare and the School of Dentistry and HSL web sites.
Posted by cshannon at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)
May 08, 2009
Dental Patent: 1886 - Berlin Dentist Works through Claudius Ash to Patent Elevating Chair
This patent is interesting in that it shows some of the politics of international patent applications at the time. The actual creative individual in this patent is Daniel O'Connell, who sounds Irish but is living in Berlin. At this time, the Germans were the leaders of the dental profession, so if you were serious about dentistry that was a good place to study. To patent in the Britain (what we think of now as the United Kingdom), he worked through an agent. In this case the agent was the Ash firm. Given that the Ash firm marketed dental chairs, there may be an implication that this innovation was something they were interested in marketing or producing.
Daniel O'Connell's Elevating Chair, via Claudius Ash: Title Page
Daniel O'Connell's Elevating Chair, via Claudius Ash: Detail Page
More images of this patent can be browsed here.
Patent UK 1886 #10,052: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/tags/patentuk188610052/
More patents can be browsed here.
Flickr: Dental Patents Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/sets/72157613314928074/
Posted by pfa at 09:08 AM | Comments (0)
May 01, 2009
Probable swine flu infection closes Harvard dental clinic
Classes at all three schools (Dental, Medical, and Public Health) on the Longwood campus were also closed as a precaution.
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/05/01/flu_fear_shuts_harvard_dental/
Posted by cshannon at 10:39 AM | Comments (0)