New directions and roles for university libraries : Trends and goals

Intervention à la préconférence au congrès LIBER 2004 organisée par SPARC Europe. De nouveaux enjeux et nouveaux services incombent aux bibliothèques universitaires avec le développement des NTIC. Présentation de plusieurs bibliothèques numériques et virtuelles universitaires

Libre accès à l\u27information scientifique : pré-conférence au 33e congrès LIBER (2004) (Le)

Communications faites lors de la préconférence au Congrès LIBER (2004) organisée par la Scholarly Publishnig and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC Europe) sur le thème du libre accès à l\u27information scientifique en ligne. David Prosser : Progress on the road to Open access ; Heather Joseph : Bundled Journals : From Big Deals to Fair Deals ; Theresa Velden : Implementing Open Access ; Stephen Pinfield : Institutional repositories in practice ; Kurt De Belder : New directions and roles for university libraries

La Bibliothèque de France á Mi-Parcours (Book Review)

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Electronic Texts: A Promise for Humanities Research

Scholars in the humanities often create and work with electronic texts, and have come to appreciate many of the possibilities inherent in machine-readable text. But the impact of these possibilities has largely been restricted to what I would call the "procedural" side of the humanist's labor: · The mutability of electronic texts (e-texts) is utilized only in editing and recycling texts. · The reproducibility of machine-readable texts is used mainly to transform them into print format. · The ease of transmission of e-texts across electronic networks is used for only minimal dissemination. The wide array of search possibilities has been limited mainly to citation and lookup queries. This reductionist, procedural, model has retarded the use of machine-readable texts in the "creative" or "intellectual" realm -- the humanist's ultimate domain of textual analysis and interpretation

Literary Texts in an Electronic Age (Book Review)

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Health-status outcomes with invasive or conservative care in coronary disease

BACKGROUND In the ISCHEMIA trial, an invasive strategy with angiographic assessment and revascularization did not reduce clinical events among patients with stable ischemic heart disease and moderate or severe ischemia. A secondary objective of the trial was to assess angina-related health status among these patients. METHODS We assessed angina-related symptoms, function, and quality of life with the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ) at randomization, at months 1.5, 3, and 6, and every 6 months thereafter in participants who had been randomly assigned to an invasive treatment strategy (2295 participants) or a conservative strategy (2322). Mixed-effects cumulative probability models within a Bayesian framework were used to estimate differences between the treatment groups. The primary outcome of this health-status analysis was the SAQ summary score (scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better health status). All analyses were performed in the overall population and according to baseline angina frequency. RESULTS At baseline, 35% of patients reported having no angina in the previous month. SAQ summary scores increased in both treatment groups, with increases at 3, 12, and 36 months that were 4.1 points (95% credible interval, 3.2 to 5.0), 4.2 points (95% credible interval, 3.3 to 5.1), and 2.9 points (95% credible interval, 2.2 to 3.7) higher with the invasive strategy than with the conservative strategy. Differences were larger among participants who had more frequent angina at baseline (8.5 vs. 0.1 points at 3 months and 5.3 vs. 1.2 points at 36 months among participants with daily or weekly angina as compared with no angina). CONCLUSIONS In the overall trial population with moderate or severe ischemia, which included 35% of participants without angina at baseline, patients randomly assigned to the invasive strategy had greater improvement in angina-related health status than those assigned to the conservative strategy. The modest mean differences favoring the invasive strategy in the overall group reflected minimal differences among asymptomatic patients and larger differences among patients who had had angina at baseline