Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder- HCN vs Google. I know who has the deeper pockets. > If the consumers start demanding a portable medical record Google would > certainly be well placed. > > Check out this beta as an alternative search engine > http://scholar.google.com/ > > Another beta Google site that has been around for over a year now. > > From the website > What is Google Scholar? > Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly > literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and > sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, > from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, > universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you > identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly > research. > > Features of Google Scholar > > Search diverse sources from one convenient place > Find papers, abstracts and citations > Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web > Learn about key papers in any area of research > How are articles ranked? > Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing > the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the > article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other > scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on > the first page.
Yes. I used to search PubMed and Google for relevant papers in the biomedical domain. Then PubMed and Google Scholar. But now, increasingly. just Google Scholar, because it indexes all of PubMed and MEDLINE as well as many other sources (eg CiteSeer) and lots of institutional repositories of papers, reports etc - all of which PubMed misses. In health informatics in particular one constantly sees papers in which the authors (and the reviewers) have only ever searched PubMed or MEDLINE, which ignores almost the entire computer science literature. The same is increasingly true in other biomedical subdisciplines. Perhaps premature to give up on PubMed, but definitely use Google Scholar to supplement it. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
