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Compare-stuff.com/pubmed

I haven’t decided yet if this third party PubMed tool will prove to be of any practical use to me, but I had fun playing with it.

In the screen capture below, you can see where I asked the tool to count up all the records in PubMed containing the string “internet” and compare the counts by year from 1999 through 2006.

Click this image to see the full-size results

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December 6th, 2007 | Category: 3rd Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tools, For Medical Libraryfolk, Search, Technology | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed

3 Responses to “Compare-stuff.com/pubmed”

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Martin:
December 6th, 2007 at 3:19 am
Well, I once did a more versatile version which is here: http://www.hta.uni-bremen.de/xsearch/index-en.html
And the poster (sorry, german only) is here: http://www.hta.uni-bremen.de/uploads/xsearch.ppt
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David Rothman:
December 6th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Hi Martin.

It is sort of hard to compare the tools when there are no instructions for this tool. Do you have (English-language)directions available that explain how it can be used?
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Mark Hollander:
December 6th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Thanks for posting the link to this tool. Very helpful.

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