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Summon & PubMed : an update

" In a recent demo of Summon at the University of Groningen Library we tested some medical search terms, users would likely to be entering when they are discovering what a tool that promises "One Search Box, Your library discovered" or "One search engine, one search, no stress" The rather stupid search " heart attack " (but is to be expected by starting new med students expecting a google-like framework and no serious search experience for scientific information) does give you really terrible results, especially when you forget to choose to: Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review or Exclude Newspaper Articles (thank you Wichor Bramer for the search tip, and @Dympie  about Scopus still using "heart attack" as example search) Bad results from the perspective of the medical librarian in a academic setting who expects students and staff to turn up with Pubmed records. Having seen a Ebsco Discovery Servi...

MedLib’s Round, First Edition

Image via CrunchBase I can't think of anything to add to this intro of this first edition of Medlib's Round hosted and initiated by Laikas : "The MedLib’s Round is about medical librarian stuff. This field is much broader than searching PubMed or interlibrary loaning; it is related to all stages in the publication and medical information cycles (searching, citing, managing, writing, publishing, social networking). This carnival covers many facets of that cycle. " The Carnival itself is a caleidoscope of topics: SEARCHING PUBMED (and Widgets) MAN AGING INFORMATION AND REFERENCES PUBLISHING SOCIAL MEDIA & NLM, GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND MEDICAL LIBRARIANS You should not stay here at this blog any longer, but leave right away to read all of it in detail! Related articles by Zemanta Top Health Search Engines of 2008 [Highlight HEALTH] (highlighthealth.com) News, Search Technologies: Give Mednars a Try (creakysites.wordpress.com) GoPubMed [Highlight HEA...

New PubMed Search Interface: NOVO/SEEK

Very recently a new New PubMed / Medline Search Interface was launched: NOVO/SEEK novo | seek is a search engine for biomedical literature in Medline that will help you to: Retrieve meaningful documents related to your search. Narrow your search to find the relevant scientific articles . Identify the most relevant biomedial concepts to your query. It is amazing! If offers a clear concept analysis with visual relevance indicators per concept! But not Mesh?I have to have a closer look soon, after I did read David Rothmans post about it, which is not visible at the moment Related articles by Zemanta Top Health Search Engines of 2008 [Highlight HEALTH] (highlighthealth.com) Launch new search engine PurpleSearch (digicmb.blogspot.com) PubMed sends out a few new blooms: simplified web links (shelved.blogspot.com) News, Search Technologies: Give Mednars a Try (creakysites.wordpress.com)