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Hakia says they’re tapping the expertise of librarians. As CEO Dr. Riza C Berkan writes on the Hakia blog:
Every Web search starts with two queries. One is X. The other one is “who knows X the best?” Because finding X is not enough if the author of that page does not know X himself/herself. […]

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 […]

Xoova is actually pretty cool in that it allows you to search “by any combination of name, specialist, treatment, condition, health plan & location.”
So if I wanted to find cardiologists in Syracuse, I could search for cardiology Syracuse, NY and get a list.
If I’m looking for a particular physician, it does pretty well with that […]

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 […]

A few weeks ago I mentioned a post from Dr. Joshua Schwimmer about Google Book Search in which he described a time when it proved extremely useful in a clinical setting.
Google must have liked the positive exposure because they interviewed Dr. Schwimmer. The interview (just over two minutes) is embedded below.

If you’re reading this […]

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 […]

I’m in the middle of a really busy few weeks, so I haven’t had time to properly examine these yet- but I wanted to at least mention them:
By now you’ve probably heard about the NLM’s new drug information portal, but you might’ve missed Healthline’s new drug directory, the features of which are reviewed by (Healthline’s […]

Welcome. radRounds is a new professional networking tool for radiologists, created by radiologists. Think LinkedIN, Facebook, or MySpace but just for us radiologists. Connections matter - enrich your clinical or academic career by joining our rapidly growing radiologist-focused community.
radRounds is built on the Ning platform, so anyone who has used a Ning network social network […]

Blame Rachel. She started it by offering a critique of CNN’s Tips for savvy medical Web surfing:
In this section about searching for articles in the major medical literature database, PubMed, Guthrie advises reading just the beginning and end of the study, stating that “The conclusion will tell you whether the treatment they studied was […]

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 […]

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From the Yale University School of Medicine’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library comes a nice screencast tutorial on generating search-based RSS feeds from OvidSP.
You can download the tutorial (mp4) or watch the streaming version.

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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. […]

Oh, I downloaded a copy of this right away for the next time I need to teach about this topic.
A Bioinformatics 800.6 Module A lecture given on February 5, 2008 on the topic of biomedical web-based literature searching tools.

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CollegeDegree.com lists LibWorm as one of its “25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World.”
24. LibWorm: This beta helps you “search the biblioblogosphere and beyond.” When you want to start your search on the Internet but only want to find library-related material, this tool can help. By pulling information from over 1500 RSS […]

I hadn’t spent much time playing with Google Book Search, but I was intrigued by this recent post from Dr. Joshua Schwimmer describing a moment in which it was very useful:
Several months ago, a group of medical students, residents and I were in the emergency department examining a patient who might have had necrotizing fasciitis. […]

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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I’ve posted about GoldMiner a couple of times previously- it is an image search engine created by the ARRS, who describe it on Goldminer’s About page:
ARRS GoldMiner™ provides instant access to images published in selected peer-reviewed radiology journals. This new, web-based system allows viewers to search for images by findings, anatomy, imaging technique, and patient […]

The Krafty Librarian has assembled a number of useful resources on OvidSP that should be helpful to those still working on transition plans.
You can also check out what other medical libraries are doing by searching the Medical Library CSE for ovidsp.
You could even seek out specific instructional materials by searching for Ovidsp (handout OR […]