How to: Find Instructional Materials with the Medical Library CSE
A few days ago I made a Google Custom Search Engine for searching the Web sites of medical libraries.
Connie Schardt pointed out that it could be useful for finding handouts, tutorials and other teaching materials. Here are some ideas on how this might be done.
- Say you’re looking for PowerPoint presentations about Evidence based medicine. You’d want to seach for “Evidence Based” or “EBM” or “EBP” where the file type is .ppt or .pps, right? To perform this search in the Medical Library search engine, just enter:
(”evidence based”|EBM|EBP) (filetype:ppt OR filetype:pps) - If you’re looking for handouts about PubMed:
handout pubmed (filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf)
Your turn: What other searches would be useful?
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December 10th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Hi David-
Thanks for putting together this useful custom search engine. Is it available as a Google gadget? It would be handy to add this to an iGoogle page.
Martha
December 10th, 2007 at 11:41 am
There’s an idea, Martha. Let me look into that and I’ll get back to you…