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Jimmy Lin, Michael DiCuccio, Vahan Grigoryan, and W. John Wilbur.
Exploring the Effectiveness of Related Article Search in PubMed.
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Abstract:
We describe two complementary studies that explore the effectiveness of related article search in PubMed. The first attempts to characterize the topological properties of document networks that are implicitly defined by this capability. The […]

The United States Food and Drug Administration has Drug Safety Podcasts available, including text transcripts for those who want them.
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Thanks to Drexel for the heads-up!

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There’s been another big surge in online discussion of UpToDate recently.

Linda Spadaccini asks via a post to MEDLIB-L if other libraries have considered requesting that their “…physicians or medical staff office pay for it…”

Also via a post to MEDLIB-L, Chris Williams asks if others are enjoying the same clear documentation and friendly customer service that […]

When I was growing up in Rochester, Minnesota, we didn’t refer to the institution as “The Mayo Clinic.” It was just “The Clinic.” It would be an understatement to say that Mayo is an incredibly huge presence in my home town. When I asked one Rochester local if anything significant had changed […]

From the Microarray Lab, Department of Psychiatry / Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan comes PubViz, a powerfull, flexible prototype interface (built in Flash!) for MEDLINE information retrieval.

In short, PubViz is developed to provide the capability of utilizing external knowledge as well as interactive visual query functions for more efficient exploration […]

If you’re a biblioblogger, please take this survey which Meredith Farkas has put up.
Details at Meredith’s blog, Information Wants to Be Free.

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I keep forgetting to mention that the Central New York Library Resources Council asked me to take on their technology blog after Bill Drew’s departure from the region.
I’m excited about the work because it is an enjoyable challenge and a great motivator to routinely write new, original material.
My first post was on 7/9/07 and it […]

If you work in a medical library and haven’t yet subscribed to Mark Rabnett’s Shelved in the W’s, you probably will after reading this post.

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Still catching up and discovering neat stuff in my aggregator from my time off last week, including this interview with T. Scott Plutchak at DegreeTutor.com.
Excerpt:

Do you see academic medical libraries being a vanguard to other libraries and their adoptions of technology?
Yes and no. Yes in that I think that there are a lot of […]

With tons of screen captures and good, simple descriptions of features, this seems like a really nice introduction to HubMed.
Previous posts about third-party PubMed tools

Verbs in MEDLINE Searches & MEDIE (Third-Party PubMed Tool)
MLA News: Third-Party PubMed Tools
Pmid.us (Third-Party PubMed Tool)
ExpertMapper (Third-Party PubMed Tool)
Twease (Third-party PubMed Tool)
Article on eTBLAST (Third-party PubMed Tool)
CILIP HLG Newsletter on Third-Party […]

Naturally, it is in the week I take a vacation from blogging that two really interesting new MedLib blogs come into existence. I subscribed to each as soon as it came to my attention.
Mark Funk (bio) has started the first-ever blog by an MLA president: Only Connect!. I’ve previously mentioned Mark’s enthusiasm for new […]

I gave a talk last week at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN as a part of their Mayo Libraries 2.0 program. Slides from this talk are embedded below. If you prefer, you can see them here.

Many thanks to Mayo Clinic Libraries for having me- I had a great time!
(I’ll share more about […]

Just got back to NY and am starting the long process of catching up on email and reading. If you’ve written in the last week, please forgive the delay and know that I’ll get back to you in the next few days. There will be very light posting this week while I catch […]

Yesterday, commenter Iskandar informed me that in Italy, they say “Mamma mia” when suffering from information overload.
Mamma mia! Mamma mia! Mamma mia!
I promised I would discuss PubWindows today, so I’ll try. Honestly, I still haven’t completely figured it all out. Partly because of time, and partly because there is soo much to it. If anyone […]

I wanted to write about PubWindows today, but I simply haven’t had enough time to evaluate it properly. I’ll post about that tomorrow.
In the meantime, I want to share with you a found haiku from the ‘introduction’ section in XplorMed.
XplorMed
Recommended for
cases in which you do not
know exactly what
you are expecting to find.
Your […]

David reviewed GoPubMed in March, but it has already changed so much that it bears revisiting. GoPubMed uses Gene Ontology (GO) and MeSH (when David posted, it was MeshPubMed) to search PubMed.
You really should click over and check it out. The design is deceptively simple, lovely and easy to use.
There’s not enough room for […]

I was going to review Twease today, but I realized that David already did a great job with it, and that one of its creators, Fabien Campagne, left additional notes in the comments section that make for a complete review of what it does and how it works.
What neither of them touched on, though, was […]

Earlier I was thinking about which third-party PubMed tool to review, when I noticed that something didn’t seem right. Then it hit me: I’m not being specific. I’ve been using the terms PubMed and Medline interchangeably, when that is incorrect.
MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed…snip…In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed also contains:
In-process […]

So, today I tried out Medie. I’d said I’d write about it as a third party Medline tool. I can’t. At least not as a hospital librarian. I was going to try to give it a pat on its back and insincerely flash it half a smile so it wouldn’t feel too badly about […]