Coming very soon: The 100th (yes, the 100th!) issue of The Frogmore Papers, our bi-annual literary magazine, edited by Jeremy Page.
Here is the splendid cover by our long-term collaborator, contributor and supporter .
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Training patterns associated with injury in New York City Marathon runners
#ukmedlibs may be interested in this webinar from ’s UX Caucus: What's going on with my search? Wednesday 26th October 2-3:30pm EST (which is 19:00 BST)
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like pebbles clinging tight to the suckers of an octopus, wrenched from its den. (Odyssey 5.432-5)
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Announcing the 2022 Ig Nobel Prize winners. Ten new prizes were awarded tonight at the gala ceremony. (This photo shows most of the team that won the Peace Prize.) improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig
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Doubtless due to my ignorance, but I had not heard of SportArchiv, a preprint server for sports medicine and science, until today sportrxiv.org/index.php/serv
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Very sad news. First met Guy when he, Roger Backhouse and I worked together in the Trade Union Information Group, in the 1980s
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Breaking twitter silence to share the very sad news of the death of a dear and much-loved @CILIPinfo colleague, Guy Daines. As warm, intelligent and generous a colleague and one of the most passionate champions of library ethics and public libraries as I have ever known. #RIP Guy
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Edward Bowles's "neighbour, fellow gardener and spinster", Miss Euphemia Jessop, according to this hedgexpress.co.uk/rosemary-miss-
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The fastigiate or pyramidal rosemary, pleasingly called Miss Jessopp‘s Upright, will make sentinels 6' high. (Who was Miss Jessopp, I wonder?)
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The Impact of Query Refinement on Systematic Review Literature Search | Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval
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Big news in academic publishing!
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A striking docker at Felixstowe laps the deserted port with their flag flying high.
Workers’ power at its best - nothing moves without us.
Brilliant work from the striker who captured this moment and from all those taking a stand for a proper pay rise 👏
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After a 3⃣-year break the highly competitve and popular #10K ROAD RACE is back on Sunday 20th November.
What are you waiting for?
Enter here: brighton10k.co.uk.
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Excellent feature on Beethoven’s medical history. A search for Beethoven in PubMed using the personal name as subject field finds 68 hits
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Might require some investment in staffing. When I started working in public libraries, we were open six days a week, four main libraries opened 9-8 Mon-Fri, 9-4 Sat, branches open Tues-Sat including two nights till till 8.
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On #worldmosquitoday2022 here's an advert for a soap that has protected one lady but not the other. The apparent Greek temple out the window reminds me the worst I ever got bitten was in Patras, Peloponnese. edithorial.blogspot.com/2016/06/declar
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Exploring the archaeological potential of Seaford Head | Institute of Archaeology - UCL – University College London
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Mahalia Jackson - Didn't It Rain (Live at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival)...
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#shareaname. Prof Douglas Chamberlain was Consultant at RSCH and this has been built on his old office and clinical rooms! Still a resident of Hove.His firsts-trained paramedics in Europe,AEDs in public places,public CPR training,cardiac course for Drs HCPs etc etc
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Frandsen TF, Carlsen A-MF, Eriksen MB. The use of subject headings varied in Embase and MEDLINE: An analysis of indexing across six subject areas. Journal of Information Science. August 2022. doi:10.1177/01655515221107335 [Free access for CILIP members]
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Oh, play that thing!
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By chance, switching on on my return from my run on the centenary of his birth, I come upon a discussion of Larkin, his own reading of Broadcast, correspondence from a librarian who’d worked for him and Maeve Brennan discussing her shoes
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They miss the point about predatory journals: "Predatory journals are driven by profits..." Er, so are non-predatory journals. One wonders why they didn't consult an information professional when designing the study (the authors are in institutions that boast some excellent ones)
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