NLM’s MedlinePlus Goes All Widgety

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Dean Giustini

What is a widget? Widgets are small applications that allow you to pull some code onto your own website to display content from another website or service.

MedlinePlus (in a new sleek design) has introduced widgets and word clouds. You can embed an array of new widgets in blogs, personalized homepages, and other sites. Once you embed the widget, MedlinePlus takes care of the technical maintenance and updates content automatically. The search cloud widget displays frequently searched terms on MedlinePlus. This widget is usually updated each weekday, and it is a smaller version of the full-sized MedlinePlus search cloud.

About Dean Giustini

I am the UBC Biomedical Branch librarian at Vancouver hospital. I teach at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, and the School of Population and Public Health.
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