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The idea behind Pubget is that it speeds up the process of grabbing the full-text PDFs from PubMed search results. The video below illustrates the idea:

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If you’re at one of the following […]

When I posted in February about JANE, I should also have mentioned eTBLAST(previously mentioned here):

Our service is very different from PubMed. While PubMed searches for “keywords”, our search engine lets you input an entire paragraph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are similar to it. This is something like PubMed’s “Related Articles” feature, only better because […]

I have distinct childhood memories of asking my mother what one word or another meant. She would point out that there was a dictionary close at hand designed exactly for that purpose and invite me to make use of it.
I remember asking my father to teach me to program in BASIC. He cheerfully […]

Gerry McKiernan points out two Facebook applications for searching PubMed, PubFace and PubMed Search.
PubFace Results:

PubMed Search Results:

It’s sort of neat to be able to quickly share a PubMed citation with another Facebook user (see the link in the PubFace results above for “Send to a friend” or PubMed Search’s “Share this” button) and it is […]

Jon Brassey writes:
I may have missed something, but none of these alternate interfaces allow easy searching of PubMed. Some are wonders of programming, some allow some very neat tricks but none make searching of PubMed easy.
That’s a fair criticism, I suppose. I think that although PubMed has come a very long way in developing […]

MScanner: a classifier for retrieving Medline citations
Graham L Poulter, Daniel L Rubin, Russ B Altman and Cathal Seoighe
BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:108doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-108
Published: 19 February 2008
Free full text: [PDF]
Article is about a third-party PubMed/MEDLINE tool that I have not been able to make work, MScanner.
[Other posts about third-party PubMed/MEDLINE tools]

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Free full text article (PDF) from the Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration on Anne O’Tate.
In this paper, we present Anne O’Tate, a web-based tool that processes articles retrieved from PubMed and displays multiple aspects of the articles to the user, according to pre-defined categories such as the “most important” words found in titles or […]

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. […]

Have you recently written a paper, but you’re not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on ‘Find journals’ or ‘Find authors’. […]

http://nlm.ourtoolbar.com/

This appears to be a Conduit toolbar…but I see no proof that the NLM is actually behind it.
If you install it and use it, leave a comment to let me know what you think of it?
[Via Guus van den Brekel]

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Big day for me. My Electronic Resources Review of BioWizard was published in the JMLA.
BioWizard
David L. Rothman
J Med Libr Assoc. 2008 January; 96(1): 74. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.96.1.74.
| Full Text | PDF–988K
Of course, I just realized that BioWizard has significantly changed its interface since I wrote the review. Dangit.

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So, from the start I thought BiomedExperts sounded like a pretty neat idea- a social network wherein personal profiles are built with data from PubMed.
From the FAQ:
“Profiles in BioMedExperts (BME) are generated by extracting and assigning the biomedical concepts from an article to the authors and co-authors that are listed with the published article. We […]

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 […]

Margaret Henderson left a comment to let me know that she presented a poster at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, MLA meeting on Alternate PubMed Interfaces.

I’d like to add that “A Smorgasbord of PubMed Interfaces” is as wonderful a title for a poster as I’ve ever heard.
You can download a PDF of the poster here and download […]

From the Wiki des Bibliothèques Universitaires de Médecine et Santé Publique - Lausanne, check out this great poster on Alternative interfaces for PubMed searches by Isabelle de Kaenel and Pablo Iriarte.

Thanks for pointing this out, Gaétan!
Other posts about Third-Party PubMed/MEDLINE Tools
(Perhaps it is time I made this a WordPress category…?)

Pubconn (Firefox Plugin for Connotea in […]

If you use Connotea, Pubconn might be a useful tool.
Different scenarios in which Pubconn might prove useful:
- When you are doing a Pubmed search, you are interested to see if other people have bookmarked any of the papers you have in your search results. Currently, you should query Connotea for each and every record returned […]

PubPals is a fun little Greasemonkey script that inserts buttons in PubMed abstracts next to each author’s name to let the user quickly and easily look the author up on Facebook or LinkedIn.

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(If you’re not using Firefox yet, start.
If you’re using Firefox but haven’t installed Greasemonkey yet, do that now.)
Just stumbled across a neat Greasemonkey script called PubMed Citations.
This script takes each result in a PubMed search and then queries Google Scholar to get the number of times it has been cited. Then it places a link […]

Pierre Lindenbaum has created a tool called PubMed2Wikipedia:
First, the user select a set of articles about a given subject from pubmed, the software then download, prepare and format the data for a new wikipedia page. For example it creates the ‘references’ part and suggest the Categories: from the Mesh terms. I’ve also included a dictionary […]

Healia PubMed/Medline Search is a search engine specifically designed to help consumers find information in the PubMed/Medline dataset in a user-friendly way. Healia PubMed/Medline Search retrieves abstracts (published summaries) of journal articles.
Healia’s PubMed search (currently in beta) might be one of the best interfaces available for clinicians who don’t have the search skills to […]