{"id":392,"date":"2010-04-04T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-04-04T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:13:57","slug":"mobile-access-to-licensed-databases-in-medicine-and-other-subject-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohyunkim.net\/blog\/archives\/392","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Access to Licensed Databases in Medicine and Other Subject Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gave a presentation on the Handheld Librarian Online Conference<\/a> on Feb. 17, 2010 with the title of “Mobile Access to Licensed Databases in Medicine and Other Subject Areas,” with my colleague, Marissa Ball.\u00c2\u00a0 (Unfortunately the archived recording is not available for the public and I can’t even access it…<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We also gave the same presentation in DCLA (Dade County Library Association) <\/a>Fair\u00c2\u00a0 on Mar. 31, 2010.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 While we had almost four hundred attendees in the online presentation, we had the audience of a dozen librarians at the local DCLA fair.\u00c2\u00a0 We loved having presentations with librarians in a virtual as well as a physical space. The experience was interestingly different.<\/p>\n

In the presentation, we focused on the current status of mobile access to licensed databases.\u00c2\u00a0 It is worthwhile to look at what is happening in medicine regarding mobile resources because mobile devices were introduced in medicine much earlier than in other areas and are more widely used.\u00c2\u00a0 There exist more database vendors in medicine and health sciences that offer mobile resources, and medical and health sciences libraries are more familiar with offering and supporting mobile resources for library users. In medicine, the use of a mobile device and mobile resources also provides unique benefits by bringing up-to-date information at the point of care to help healthcare practitioners to make an informed clinical decision.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, however, there seem to be no such unique benefits from using a mobile device or mobile resources in humanities or social sciences that are comparable to those found in medicine.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, the question is if mobile resources and devices will eventually play a unique role in teaching, learning, and research activities in areas that are not practice-based as they are in medicine.\u00c2\u00a0 we expressed an optimistic view on this question since mobile devices can allow students to learn, teachers to teach, and researchers to research using mobile devices in a way that is completely different from the way they currently do using desktop computers.<\/p>\n

What do you think?\u00c2\u00a0 Here are the presentation slides and also a very inspiring presentation by Dr. Ivor Kovic in Mobile Monday in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

Mobile Access to Licensed Databases in Medicine and Other Subject Areas<\/a><\/strong><\/object><\/div>\n

Mobile Health<\/a> by Dr. Ivor Kovic at Mobile Monday in Amsterdam<\/a><\/p>\n

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