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…should have one of these.
This nifty tool from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center makes it extra easy to search PubMed for articles by authors affiliated with the institution.

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I think it was a little over a year ago that I gave up on the idea of building my own portal for medical information RSS feeds because I had started chatting with Frankie Dolan (of MedWorm and LibWorm fame) and suggesting ideas to her instead. I still get most of my medical RSS […]

Erin McKean’s TED Talk on dictionaries is wonderful. She’s brilliant and funny and she expanded my vocabulary. Watch and enjoy.

More about McKean here and here.
Also be sure to check out McKean’s blog, Dictionary Evangelist.

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Dangit!
I finished writing this post last night, but hadn’t posted it yet. Since Berci has beat me to it, I’ll go ahead and post it now.
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Curehunter.com has a “visual medical dictionary” that I’m having lots of fun playing with, even though I’m not sure that it is best described as a “dictionary.”
Really, it’s a […]

David reviewed GoPubMed in March, but it has already changed so much that it bears revisiting. GoPubMed uses Gene Ontology (GO) and MeSH (when David posted, it was MeshPubMed) to search PubMed.
You really should click over and check it out. The design is deceptively simple, lovely and easy to use.
There’s not enough room for […]

I was going to review Twease today, but I realized that David already did a great job with it, and that one of its creators, Fabien Campagne, left additional notes in the comments section that make for a complete review of what it does and how it works.
What neither of them touched on, though, was […]

Earlier I was thinking about which third-party PubMed tool to review, when I noticed that something didn’t seem right. Then it hit me: I’m not being specific. I’ve been using the terms PubMed and Medline interchangeably, when that is incorrect.
MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed…snip…In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed also contains:
In-process […]

So, today I tried out Medie. I’d said I’d write about it as a third party Medline tool. I can’t. At least not as a hospital librarian. I was going to try to give it a pat on its back and insincerely flash it half a smile so it wouldn’t feel too badly about […]

Provided by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine, the EBM Page Generator looks like a wonderful tool to help a medical library create an EBM page on its intranet, even without extensive Web development skills.
Welcome to the EBM Page Generator!
Let us help you create your own […]

Created at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine (Weill Medical College of Cornell University) by Matthew J. Wood, Kevin C. Dorff and Fabien Campagne, Twease is a…
..web-based tool to search Medline at the abstract level (available from http://twease.org). Twease indexes each word of Medline and provides features that can transparently expand your search to help find […]

The more I play with pmid.us, the more I like it.
Say you want to post a link to the PubMed abstract for PMID: 12472752. The appropriate gigantic URL would be:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12472752&dopt=AbstractPlus
Yuck!
But Pmid.us lets us shorten that to:
http://pmid.us/12472752
(Get it? The URL is http://pmid.us/[Your PMID].)
If we want to fetch two abstracts, we can do that by […]

eTBLAST: a web server to identify expert reviewers, appropriate journals and similar publications.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Apr 22
Errami M, Wren JD, Hicks JM, Garner HR.
PMID: 17452348
PubMed Citation
Free full text:
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Try eTBLAST

Other posts about third-party PubMed tools:

CILIP HLG Newsletter on Third-Party PubMed Tools
Ali Baba (3rd Party PubMed tool)
FABLE (3rd Party PubMed Tool)
Managing […]

If you’re visiting this post from UIUC, would you be so kind as to leave a comment or drop me an email to let me in what context the post was linked to? Thanks!
MEDgle has been getting a lot of attention lately (Dean Giustini brought it up in a post to Medlib-L yesterday while […]

I often stumble across good and useful things by accident.

Case in point: While using Google to look for a document I had misplaced, a typo caused me to stumble across an article from the March 2007 issue of the CILIP Health Libraries Group Newsletter titled “Internet Sites of Interest,” featuring short descriptions […]

Ali Baba is pretty neat.

Ali Baba parses PubMed abstracts for biological objects and their relations as discussed in the texts. Ali Baba visualizes the resulting network in graphical form, thus presenting a quick overview over all information contained in the abstracts.
Perhaps the best way to explain what it does is with an example:
A patient with […]

MeshPubMed is a (new?) third-party search tool for PubMed.
MeshPubMed

retrieves PubMed abstracts for your keywords,
detects Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the abstracts,
displays a subset of MeSH relevant to your search, and
allows you to browse the ontology and display only papers containing specific MeSH terms.

After performing a search, the resulting abstracts are annotated with your query […]

I’m not the first to blog about these and I certainly won’t be the last, but I wanted to say a few brief “me too’s”:
I’m going to order Social Software in Libraries…

…and not just because Meredith mentions LibWorm in Chapter Three, either! I’m going to order it because Meredith’s writings on […]

I’ve been looking at BioWizard more. I still think it is a great idea executed well, but I’m seeing a couple of problems with its “tags”.
They’re not really tags
The first problem is that the word “tags” implies that the terms assigned to each article are a part of a user-created folksonomy, but this isn’t […]

There’s lots of interesting content in this latest issue of the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, but I’m especially intrigued by Guus van den Brekel’s article on The Changing of the User Environment (tenth PDF page, numbered page eight).
I only gave it the one quick read, but that was enough […]

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