More details: NLM Browser Toolbar
I posted earlier this month about a browser toolbar built to make use of NLM resources.
At the time I was impressed with Guus van den Brekel for having discovered it. It turns out that I have better reason to be impressed. Guus built it.
I finally got around to trying it…and I like it. I’m not sure that the “Other PubMeds” feature is really worth the real estate it takes up (I’d rather it linked directly to particularly useful 3rd-party PubMed Tools rather than to sites about them), but that’s a fairly minor complaint.
Conduit appears to have a good reputation and I absolutely trust Guus- so I’d say it is worth trying whether or not it has been endorsed by the NLM. If you have suggestions about how it could be improved, please share them with Guus.
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February 14th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Thanks David for the kind words. And the minor complaint is worth mentioning, but I only put those references in yesterday. I planned to include the direct links to particularly useful 3rd-party PubMed Tools. I am still thinking about how. Maybe even a specific toolbar or a floating searchbox on the PubMed Toolbar….