PubMed Labs

PubMed Labs

PubMed Labs is a test site where the NLM/NCBI are experimenting with new features and tools that may eventually incorporate in PubMed.  They are looking for inputs on these features / tools and the final incorporation will be based on the inputs they receive – so what you see today may get included as it is, or in a revised form. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the NCBI/NLM working at? Better search algorithms: A new search algorithm that uses machine learning to more accurately find the best matches. The “best match” option to display results already exists and is based on…
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Framing the title and abstract of your paper

Framing the title and abstract of your paper

Writing the title and abstract for a research paper: Being concise, precise, and meticulous is the key Tullu MS. Saudi J Anaesth. 2019 Apr;13(Suppl 1):S12-S17. doi: 10.4103/sja.SJA_685_18. Have you come across titles / abstracts from search results that sounded very promising, but when you read the article, the content did not match what you first saw? Or have you come across titles that did not mean anything, and there was no abstract? You obviously would not bother to trace and read that article - unless the author was your friend! In the days of information overload, if you want your paper…
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Soups and inhalers to create ELearning courses!

Soups and inhalers to create ELearning courses!

I got you there didn't I? What on earth do soups and inhalers have in the creation of ELearning courses? As it turned out it was quite a lot. In February Manasa from Mediknit and I had a meeting. We decided that we should plan to quickly add two more courses on our ELearning site, so that we had a better offering for all those who subscribed. Which means that those who were already enrolled instantly got access to three courses! And of course new registrants also did. We fixed the dates for recording the courses, for March 20th to…
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