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'Building Blocks','Berry Picking'and 'Successive Fractions'—although these sound like
activities from a kindergarten picnic, in fact, they represent potential tools from your literature …

This paper reports findings from an analysis of medical or health queries to different web
search engines. We report results:(i) comparing samples of 10 000 web queries taken …

BACKGROUND. The World Wide Web (Web) has the potential to revolutionize information
retrieval in medicine. However, the best method of information retrieval from the Web is not …

PubMed and HighWire Press are both useful medical literature search engines available for
free to anyone on the internet. We measured retrieval accuracy, number of results …

The objective of this study was to determine the quality of MEDLINE searches done by
physicians, physician trainees, and expert searchers (clinicians and librarians). Its design …

Objective To review the methods of electronic retrieval of biomedical journal articles; to
demonstrate CD‐ROM and online searching techniques; and to compare major biomedical …

Identifying and accessing reliable, relevant consumer health information rapidly on the
Internet may challenge the health sciences librarian and layperson alike. In this study, seven …

Objectives: Clinicians and patients are increasingly accessing information through Internet
searches. This study aimed to examine clinicians' current search behavior when using the …

Google Scholar has been met with both enthusiasm and criticism since its introduction in
2004. This search engine provides a simple way to access ''peer-reviewed papers, theses …