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A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

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Mosa AS, Yoo I. A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2013 Jan 9;13:8. Note from QMed: “Search tags” in PubMed are methods by which a user could ask for a search term to be (compulsorily) present  in the title or as a “MeSH term” (which means the article is “about” that term, whether the search term is present in the title or abstract or not). There are several search tags that can be used in PubMed to refine searches. This article is extremely unusual…
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Lecture – Literature Search – at Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Nashik – Mar 3, 2013

Lecture – Literature Search – at Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Nashik – Mar 3, 2013

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Dr. BK Nayak, former editor of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology initiated a series of workshops on Research Methodology, during his tenure as Editor of this journal. The workshops are conducted twice a year. The current editor Dr. S. Natarajan continues this trend. Dr. Nayak now continues this through the Maharashtra Ophthalmic Society too, and with the Dean of the Medical College, Dr Mrunal Patil, also an office bearer of the MOS, planned this one day event. Vasumathi Sriganesh has always been a part of  the IJO team and now is also with the MOS efforts. Both the Ophthalmological associations…
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PubMed & Cochrane Library – Workshop at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Feb 24, 2013

PubMed & Cochrane Library – Workshop at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Feb 24, 2013

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Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences was the venue for our second workshop for 2013. On Feb 24, Lakshmi and Vasumathi conducted a one day workshop on Searching PubMed and the Cochrane Library. There were thirty participants - Librarians, PG students, Registrars, and Faculty members. Kudos to the Chief Librarian, Ms Indira Nair for making all efforts to organize this event.  What we enjoyed most was that the participants were so deeply involved that we actually managed to finish the workshop almost two hours before schedule. We then spent one hour showing them some more little tricks and also having discussions…
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