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Jon Brassey allowed me access so I could take some of the TRIP database’s upcoming enhancements for a test drive. They’re awesome. Here are just a few highlights:

RSS feeds (woohoo!) from searches:

Conclusion bubbles:

Just click the little icon in the list of search results for an article and get a quick look at the conclusion!

The Snippets feature is hard to illustrate with screen captures that will display properly here, so I’ll describe/simulate it in text instead.

Here’s a search result without the Snippets feature turned on:

Transdermal Nicotine for Ulcerative Colitis
Bandolier. 1997

Here’s the same search result with the Snippets feature turned on, giving a taste of the item’s content:

Transdermal Nicotine for Ulcerative Colitis
Bandolier. 1997
Nicotine for Ulcerative Colitis Case-control study Transdermal nicotine treatment Comment Ulcerative colitis has an…-control study One hundred patients with ulcerative colitis were matched for age and sex with community control subjects, and…

There’s other neat stuff on the way, too- so if you’d like to keep up with TRIP’s evolution, you may want to subscribe to its blog.

Thanks for letting me play with your new toys, Jon- they’re way cool.