GoPubMed turns a dull search engine into a brainiac. Altsearchengines (Dec 22)
PUbMed as a medical bibliographic index used to be intimidating. Now we have the Go version that was developed by Transinsight in Germany. GoPubMed is a new interface that presents a faceted view.
"The free public web site, a semantic browser for the life sciences community, demonstrates what a semantic browser is all about. It is based on the standard database PubMed, provided by the US National Library of Medicine. PubMed is widely used among biomedical researchers. But it is far from perfect: “PubMed returns some 50,000 articles if you enter ‘heart diseases’. In reality, though, there are more than 800,000 articles on this topic. Most of them do not use ‘heart diseases’ as a key word, so the standard PubMed search engine won’t find them,” Alvers explains."
Helps to know the MESH categories to use this. The search is still somewhat intimidating. Meant for health professionals.
Posted by Gwen at December 24, 2009 08:43 PM