We recently bought some oBooks from Wiley (do other companies call online ebooks obooks?).
One of these is “Enabling learning in nursing and midwifery practice” – a popular text with our users (in paper form – look forward to seeing if they use the oBook).
Sorting out the linking for this item I tried to retrieve it on Wiley Online Library.
I searched for – enabling learning nursing – seems a fair search to me.
Result – “No results found for: enabling learning nursing.”
A search for – enabling learning – works fine.
A search for – enabling learning in – works fine to.
Clearly this is an issue. Being a helpful customer I report this via the online form spelling out the series of search strings, location of search and so on.
Response – “Please send us screen shots”
This is not a hard to replicate fault – I have replicated it several times to check it really was an issue before logging it. I click the link to update the enquiry – it fails.
I start a new enquiry (I am a helpful and determined customer) including the reference from last time and spend quality time preparing a document that includes all the screen shots you might want to see.
Response – ” Thank you for your reply and screen shots to 120117-000375
You may use the “Advanced Search” functions to search for the journal you are interested of.
Attached is the User Guide for your reference in using Advanced Search function.
Hope this information helps.”
So a report that your main front page search function is at some level broken draws the suggestion I need to read the manual and /or use an alternative search option? Of course the link to respond to the enquiry fails so I cannot easily continue the discussion but why bother?
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Sign in nowInteresting post. I think you’re right that having the group blog is a little confusing (IMO partly because the title of it implies a single author). Maybe if the blog had a little avatar next to each post representing the author, that might make it clearer?
Also agree that keeping personal and professional totally separate is near-impossible.
I have a near-unique forename/surname combo; feel it might be a blessing for branding but a curse for any semblence of privacy/anonymity…
Good point on the avatar thing – I suspect a previous blog template did include this information but at the cost of the post titles showing. No doubt we will change it again in the future.
The title reflects the fact that I think this blog started as one person affair and slowly borged into the present arrangement.
I note from your blog that you are a London based CPD23er – I hope you will take advantage of the event in week 5 (advertised elsewhere on this blog!)
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I haven’t heard of Pushnote but it must have had some decent hype to have you fight to get it working. I’ve been using StumbleUpon sporadically over the last couple of years but I suppose this is more for transferable bookmarks & tags than assigning a rating to things.
I use something called Yoono that embeds in Firefox for Twitter access. It recently had access issues possibly because I use it across home and work but these seemed to resolve when I upgraded. It seems quite good and I’ve tried some of the ‘flash in the pan’ ones.
You have to fight to get rid of it too!
Your post made me smile. I am one of those who have worked in medical education and know the term ‘reflective practice’ and find that it’s almost easier to do it than to explain it!
I’m interested in your hope that CILIP will introduce mandatory CPD; with my Devil’s Advocate hat on for a minute, would you be concerned that in an attempt to ‘professionalise the profession’, it would discourage people from Chartership/CPD altogether?
For me the need is to make Chartership enduringly meaningful both to those in the profession and our employers. Chartership at present is a useful process but a one shot deal. I know you can revalidate but without the push will people do it? Signs point to only a limited level of uptake.
People are doing the CPD anyway – stacks of it. The mandatory element would be the tracking. As a pay off for the small effort of online tracking (beyond the personal value of actually doing the reflection) there should be a public online site that I could point to that would allow employers to verify that I was maintaining my Chartered status. As a recruiter I would value this.
Hi,
I get much more out of the CILIP discussions on LinkedIn than I ever did with CILIP Communities. People just seem to use it more often so it becomes much more dynamic. It’s quite nice to be able to check someone’s profile when they have commented on something too – just to check that they may know what they are talking about! Sarah
RT@ LibrarianGMIT: New useful search engine that returns full PDF scientific articles not subject to access fees: http://www.freefullpdf.com
*Headdesk*
*eye roll*