- From: Skinner, Karen (NIH/NIDA) [E] <kskinner@nida.nih.gov>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 23:50:03 -0400
- To: "Holmgren, Stephanie (NIH/NIEHS) [E]" <holmgren@niehs.nih.gov>, "public-semweb-lifesci hcls" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Bingo! That first reference certainly must be the source of what I read elsewhere, and is exactly what I was seeking! All of your references are terrific, and responsive to many of the issues upon which I've been musing. The last one is especially impressive. Thank you so much! And thanks again to all of you who shared papers, thoughts and comments. I am still working my way through them. Please feel free to pass along any additional thoughts, comments or references. Karen Skinner, Ph.D. Deputy Director for Science and Technology Development Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavior Research National Institute on Drug Abuse Room 4243 6001 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9651 301-435-0886 or 301-443-1887 ks79x@nih.gov -----Original Message----- From: Holmgren, Stephanie (NIH/NIEHS) [E] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:27 PM To: public-semweb-lifesci hcls Subject: RE: Seeking Help with finding an assertion Hi Karen, I believe this is your proverbial needle - http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/pr/pr_060118.pdf. This press release was picked up by many bloggers and others in the information community; e.g., http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17910324 6&subSection=Breaking+News. What's fascinating is that people will search in one search engine for another search engine rather than typing the desired engine's URL into the address bar. Related to item (1) is a study by IDC on "The High Cost of Not Finding Information". It relates to Enterprise-wide Search tools, but provides some interesting numbers. http://www.viapoint.com/doc/IDC%20on%20The%20High%20Cost%20Of%20Not%20Fi nding%20Information.pdf. A related article is "You are wasting time. Find out why." This article highlights other market reports on the cost of ineffective searching. http://edge.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/hom e/httpd/htdocs/news/2007/012307-wasted-searches.html&pagename=/news/2007 /012307-wasted-searches.html&pageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/news/20 07/012307-wasted-searches.html&site=applications. Staggering cost of information overload - http://om-online.com/articles/staggering_cost_of_infoglut.pdf >From a medical perspective, one of the major costs of ineffective information retrieval is loss of life. A tragic example is the Hopkins volunteer who died from ingesting hexamethonium in 2001. Pre-1966 medical literature described adverse effects from ingestion, but this literature was not searched. Essentially because it was only available in print and was not searchable through the web-based version of PubMed. The full report of the investigation has been made widely available on the internet at http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/researchvolunteerdeath.html. Regards, Stephanie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stephanie Holmgren, M.S.L.S. Biomedical Librarian National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 111 Alexander Drive, PO Box 12233, MD A0-01 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Phone: 919-541-2599 Fax: 919-541-0669 E-mail: holmgren@niehs.nih.gov Http://library.niehs.nih.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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