Comments on: LigerCat http://davidrothman.net/2009/10/01/ligercat/ Health Information | Geekery Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:42:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Melissa http://davidrothman.net/2009/10/01/ligercat/comment-page-1/#comment-203046 Melissa Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:52:22 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2791#comment-203046 Right! Not that I'm much help, usually. :) Right! Not that I’m much help, usually. :)

]]> By: Creaky http://davidrothman.net/2009/10/01/ligercat/comment-page-1/#comment-203042 Creaky Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:31:32 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/?p=2791#comment-203042 Thanks for the mention, David. I haven't had the opportunity to really test-drive LigerCat as often as I search PubMed; however what appeals to me is their mining the system to create tag clouds. The term "data mining" means little to our users, but "tag clouds" they can really understand immediately, intuitively, visually. The more hits you've gotten the bigger the Tag. A 5-year old gets it. I'm planning on announcing LigerCat to my group in PBL this week, and ask them to try it out. It will be interesting to see what they think... especially in light of the fact that by now, these first year medical students will have noticed the big changes which took place in PubMed recently. (And the students have gotten a search-training session from the reference librarians in August when they first arrived at UCHC so are well-aware of the advantage of using medical subject headings to search PubMed). And as for going to MeSH first before beginning a literature search? That's the best way to begin! And it's always a treat to check the year-end "new Medical Subject Headings" list issued by National Library of Medicine - you can view the 2010 list of new descriptors at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/newd.html For example, this year NLM added the term "information seeking behavior" as a MeSH heading. Hallelujah! Kathleen (Creaky) Thanks for the mention, David. I haven’t had the opportunity to really test-drive LigerCat as often as I search PubMed; however what appeals to me is their mining the system to create tag clouds.

The term “data mining” means little to our users, but “tag clouds” they can really understand immediately, intuitively, visually. The more hits you’ve gotten the bigger the Tag. A 5-year old gets it.

I’m planning on announcing LigerCat to my group in PBL this week, and ask them to try it out. It will be interesting to see what they think… especially in light of the fact that by now, these first year medical students will have noticed the big changes which took place in PubMed recently. (And the students have gotten a search-training session from the reference librarians in August when they first arrived at UCHC so are well-aware of the advantage of using medical subject headings to search PubMed).

And as for going to MeSH first before beginning a literature search? That’s the best way to begin! And it’s always a treat to check the year-end “new Medical Subject Headings” list issued by National Library of Medicine – you can view the 2010 list of new descriptors at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/newd.html

For example, this year NLM added the term “information seeking behavior” as a MeSH heading. Hallelujah!
Kathleen
(Creaky)

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