MEDICAL RESEARCH : DATABASES : INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS: Web Based Medical and Related Databases to Consider for Research
David P. Dillard
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MEDICAL RESEARCH :
DATABASES :
INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS:
Web Based Medical and Related Databases to Consider for Research
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The post below was sent to a medical discussion group on which a member
suggested that I might be able to help with a question about what search
tools to use for a medical question of one of the group's members.
The person who suggested I might be able to add to his comments, noted
PogoFrog as a search tool that is helpful for websites that are medically
oriented and quality sources. I agree with his recommendation and have
discussed and used PogoFrog on Net-Gold, but I did not mention it in this
post as he already had.
PogoFrog
<http://www.pogofrog.com/>
<http://www.google.com/search?q=pogofrog+and+%
22net-gold%22&hl=en&rlz=1T4DAUS_enUS314US314&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Those on this list may find this response helpful in their own research.
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Thanks for the kind referal. I will mention a few databases that can be
considered for this topic that appears rather specific and difficult.
If the libraries in your state provide access to databases as they do in New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and many other states, check with a librarian
in your area at a public library to see if Medline is one of the databases
provided. There is a good chance, if Medline is provided that this would be
the EBSCO version of this database and this is the same content as PubMed that
is provided by the United States government and is the comprehensive database
of medical journal literature created and maintained by the National Library of
Medicine.
PubMed, unfortunately, has just been revised and the search capabilities
according to many medical reference librarians who cannot find harsh enough
words about these changes that are acceptable in polite professional company
have been holding forth on the MedLib-L list over several months on and off on
this topic. PubMed can be found here.
PubMed
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/>
[I also had a professor who teaches in a medical field in my office
yesterday and he is also very unamused and unhappy with the changes in
PubMed. It is important for folks in academic institutions to realize
that the Medline database from various commercial vendors has the exact
same content with drastically different searching interfaces. At Temple
we have Medline access via OVID, EBSCO, FirstSearch and the providers of
Web of Science. I never have to stuggle using PubMed and folks with only
this access have my sympathy.]
Even though Google search software produces highly inaccurate results, one can
never trust it for complete or thorough results, PubMed is completely included
in both Google Scholar and Google Government. Google Scholar also includes
Science Direct, JSTOR and Muse and much more. Academic libraries pay hugh sums
of money for these three databases and the main difference in the academic
library versions is the inclusion of full text.
Please also notice in Google Scholar that you can use the drop down menu under
the search dialog box to change the search to one of legal research articles
and law cases, a feature that is now several months old. As one article I
recently quoted said about another new Google development, "another day,
another Google app". <g>
I have a substantial body of information about PubMed on Net-Gold and you can
use this URL to find this content:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=pubmed+and+%
22net-gold&hl=en&rlz=1T4DAUS_enUS314US314&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
In addition you may want to try SCIRUS, a product of Elsevier, that has
scholarly journals as well as web sources in its database.
Scirus
<http://www.scirus.com/>
<http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/aboutus/>
I created an ongoing active collection of resource posts in my WEBBIB sequence
under the series title Meet the Googles that shows searching various Google
databases for an ever growing range of topics and the content of which may be
located with these links:
Meet the Googles
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22meet+the+googles%22+and+
%22net-gold%22&hl=en&rls=DAUS,DAUS:2006-11,DAUS:en&filter=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
AND
<http://sites.google.com/site/searchtoolsfamily/>
Make sure on topics like this you also use Google Books as it is a very
important tool.
I have some background information on Net-Gold regarding Katrina that may also
be useful to you.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=katrina+and+%22net-gold%22+and+
%22temple.edu%22&hl=en&rlz=1T4DAUS_enUS314US314&filter=0>
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I hope that this helps and all have a healthy and productive New Year.
Sincerely,
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