How will health librarians find materials in the scholarly search space in the future? In the flush of excitement about uninhibited, open web access to research materials in biomedicine – thanks to the rise of open access journals, for example – health librarians may want to devote their intellectual energies to examining how materials in the evolving scholarly search space will be systematically found in the future…
15 Open Search Tools On The Web
- Agricola – agriculture and allied disciplines
- arXiv – Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics
- CiteSeerX – computer and information science
- Entrez – Life sciences search engine – meta-search tool
- ERIC Education Search – education research
- Google scholar – largest open tool searching across academic disciplines
- IngentaConnect – a range of items across academic disciplines
- Lalisio literature
– arXiv, PubMedCentral & IngentaConnect - NLM Gateway – search all NLM files, biomedicine, bioinformatics
- OAIster – open access and institutional repository meta-search tool
- PubMed – biomedicine and allied fields
- PubMedCentral – open access repository in biomedicine
- Scirus – science, Elsevier content, PubMed
- Scitopia – science-technology, plus patents and government data
- SumSearch – evidence-based meta-search tool, U.S.
- TRIP Database – evidence-based meta-search tool, U.K. content
References
1. Open search – http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Open_search
2. Alan, Danielle, Hanna’s health informaticist blog – http://healthinformaticist.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/what-i-dont-not-like-health-search-engines/
Yvonne Chan
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PrimateLit – http://primatelit.library.wisc.edu/ – is another one for your list.
GoPubMed (http://www.gopubmed.org/) and NextBio (http://www.nextbio.com/b/home/home.nb) have some useful features. I also find JANE (http://biosemantics.org/jane/index.php) and eTBlast (http://invention.swmed.edu/etblast/index.shtml) useful for reference discovery, though it’s not quite what those apps are designed to do so you have to be a bit creative about what to use as a “query”.
Please add SearchMedicato the list. Created by doctors, for doctors. Authoritative medical information only, vetted by a board of medical specialists. Hence no junk. Searches all major medical journals, practical (non-research) journals, PubMed pre-filtered to exclude content of no practical interest to clinicians, separate category for evidence-based medicine, and more.