Thanks, Eric. I hadn't heard of these. We'll check it out.
Another interesting one is Mednar (who named this thing?) - a medical
open access federated search engine launched by fed search veterans Deep
Web.
http://mednar.com/mednar/
Jason
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On 7/9/2009 at 6:18 PM, in message
On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
OpenPHI is a start-up company who is using open source software to
harvest and index open access content for the purposes of creating
useful indexes to medical information. For example, they have
collected content from MEDLINE, Biomed, and
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
I think things like HealthLibrarian, Mednar, the previous work done by Index
Data with open content, the cooperative alluded to by OCLC and Ebsco, and
Serials Solutions Summon all represent a trend and/or opportunity for folks
like ourselves.
How many people here work in a library where medicine is a topic of
interest, and how many of those are familiar with OpenPHI [1] and/or
HealthLibrarian [2] ?
OpenPHI is a start-up company who is using open source software to
harvest and index open access content for the purposes of
