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The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

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In mid November 2019, the National Library of Medicine, USA announced the launch of the new PubMed. They mentioned that the new one will become the "default" from Spring 2020 - which will be around the 19th of March, 2020. It is time for us to start getting used to the new PubMed - both the good and the not so good, about the new PubMed. Here are some points of learning: The site address The new PubMed is available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ . If you have bookmarked the old, one, you will get a message asking you to try the…
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Cancer Guidelines Database

Cancer Guidelines Database

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https://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/tools/cancer-guidelines-database/ This database has approximately 1000 English language Cancer guidelines. Useful for clinicians, policy makers, and researchers, it has three types of records. These are based on the "Agree Score" (details about this score are available on the website). The first is high quality guidelines that have a score higher than 60%, the second is moderate quality guidelines that have a score of less than 60%, but still meet basic inclusion criteria, and the third - is a set of guidelines from other Canadian organizations that do not provide clear recommendations linked to evidence. These do not have an Agree…
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Another resource for free articles

Another resource for free articles

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Everyone loves getting articles for free! Let us introduce a unique tool to find free articles Unpaywall - https://unpaywall.org/ - is a database of more than 24 million legally free articles! Unpaywall harvests these articles from open access repositories (like PubMed Central) and from over 50000 journals. However it is not a database that can be searched in itself. It has to be integrated in any other collection - example - a library's collection or into a collection like PubMed This is best used when you install the Chrome Browser Extension available at https://unpaywall.org/products/extension Once you install this, then when…
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Finding and Using Health Statistics

Finding and Using Health Statistics

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Statistics? Oh no! If you just said that - you are one of a large number of medicos :) There is a joke that most medicos became medicos in order to run away from Maths and then end up being forced to learn Statistics! Setting jokes aside, guess what we found? This is a simple tutorial on the US National Library of Medicine's website. While it is (obviously) related to the US resources and more, we could still learn a lot from here and then find our own data sources. Maybe we could push for creating some! So learn about…
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JURN: A search tool for open access content

JURN: A search tool for open access content

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JURN is a free online search engine for finding and downloading of free full-text scholarly works. It is powered by a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) and is run without any advertisements. It has an effective way to find open access content from a variety of sources. It is a hand-crafted and curated index. JURN Coverage: JURN doesn’t index journal home pages but article URLs. It covers subjects like Arts, Humanities, Business, Law, Nature, Science and Medicine.The plus point of JURN is that it serves to remove unwanted results unlike what we get with generic search engines How to use it:…
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