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By: PubMed Redesign, A Physician’s Opinion | Dr Shock MD PhD

PubMed Redesign, A Physician’s Opinion | Dr Shock MD PhD — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:31:40 +0000

[...] David Rothman also found the loss of screen real estate a waste, his post has many thought provoking comments. [...]

By: Lin

Lin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:09:10 +0000

I taught a workshop yesterday and had students used the PubMed Redesign. Guess what? Not a happy switch. As the searches went on, all students went back to the old interface. It’s all about searching habit. Once end users get used to a search interface, it will take time to adopt a new one, even though the new one claims to be even more user friendly.

I would like to see History and Details in obvious place not only in Advance page as I always tell students how to/where to combine two search terms and how to edit their search queries if needed.

I also like to see a “back to search results” tab somewhere for better navigation as I’m not a “back” button user.

By: davidrothman.net » LigerCat

davidrothman.net » LigerCat — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:03:04 +0000

[...] a recent comment, Creaky (Kathleen Crea) made me aware of LigerCat, a 3rd-Party PubMed/MEDLINE tool that is new to [...]

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:54:09 +0000

There’s a webinar next week to discuss the PubMed Redesign.
Here’s the link to the NLM Technical Bulletin describing the event:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_demo.html

By: Pierre

Pierre — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:52:53 +0000

The “Save as RSS” button isn’t always displayed.

see the icons:

http://lindenb.tumblr.com/post/200750008/new-pubmed-rss-for-neil

and

http://twitpic.com/jp0sp

By: Evel

Evel — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:47:19 +0000

So – I think maybe for the average user – it will be more appealing…
that being said …No “Send to Print” option – which I used heavily for a clean layout – to cut and paste in to emails!

No quick access to the clipboard — you have to be in the middle of a search to find the link to it…..

No limiting – unless you are in the advanced feature….

No details – unless you are in the advanced feature

That being said – I wish they had a default – where you could set the advanced screen as the default for your organization – or maybe they do and I don’t know it…that way in a big research organization – they can bypass the “easy” screen….

I do think they added some nice features….just can’t figure out what they are at this moment!

so that is my two cents worth!

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:32:44 +0000

I like the new clean look but will desperately miss direct links to Details on the results page. I think everyone needs to email in about that one and maybe it can be brought back a la SCM.

And why, oh why, didn’t they take the opportunity to suggest MeSH terms from the drop down rather than other user’s poor search terms. Lost opportunities to improve searches abound on this redesign, but to me this is the big fat miss.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:39:27 +0000

Here’s the link to the NLM Technical Bulletin about the changes to PubMed.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

By: Meryl Jamison

Meryl Jamison — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:53:48 +0000

History’s not gone; it’s Recent Activity, history items are now on every page, and the link to all of them is under “See More>>>”. And as for the “hidden” search bar. Um. How do I say this. It’s at the top of the page, *where it has always been*. And just like it is everywhere else on the Web, except on Google’s home page. (Which is, by the way, almost all “wasted real estate”.)

What’s *hidden* is the link to Details; I found it lurking under Advanced Search. Which makes no sense at all, because the Details links is not an input (like the Advanced Search page), it’s an output about the current result set. What are those PubMed guys thinking? I’d rather have Details in one of those little windows on the right, than have to go digging for it every time. Or at least have the option of putting it there temporarily.

And by the way, can anybody find the printer? I looked, and couldn’t find it. So I tried just printing with File -> Print in the browser. Try it. Really you must. I wondered for a moment how to print a list of things, rather than all the results on a page. The best I can do is put stuff on the clipboard and then print that.

The one feature I was hoping for isn’t there. It’s a tiny thing, a “back to results” link. Yes, I can use a back button. But I just know my query is there in the background, waiting for me. There’s just no link to it, at least not for page 2 and beyond. So I make do with the back button. Sigh.

I don’t want to sign off on a sigh, though. I’m actually going to use just this pre-release version every day to see how it goes. So far, I’m encouraged. The output is much easier to read, both esthetically and organizationally. Hope they don’t change it *too* much (again) before the “final version”.

By: PubMed® Redesign is here… to try. « Laika’s MedLibLog

PubMed® Redesign is here… to try. « Laika’s MedLibLog — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:51:36 +0000

[...] ‘modern’” as someone on Patricia’s blogpost said, I agree with David Rothman, that there are “TONS of wasted screen real estate on that front page”. Why is the search bar hidden at the [...]