1. Beyond PubMed--Next Generation Literature Searching
Carrie Iwema, PhD, MLS
Ansuman Chattopadhyay, PhD
Molecular Biology Information Service
Health Sciences Library System
University of Pittsburgh
HSLS Lunch w/a Librarian, U. Pittsburgh, Carrie Iwema

2. Information Overload?
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3. Developed by Transinsight GmbH
GoPubMed: “searching is now sorted”
Ontology-based literature searching
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Hierarchical vocabulary for biomedical and health-related topics
Gene Ontology (GO)
Controlled vocabulary for molecular biology topics
Statistics!
4 filter categories:
What
Who
Where
When
Related search engines:
Go3R
GoGene
GoWeb
Developed by Transinsight GmbH
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GoPubMed
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5. novoseek: “your new biomedical search engine”
An information extraction system mining:
PubMed (Medline abstracts)
PubMed Central (full text)
Grants (!!!!!)
my novoseek
Developed by bioalma
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novoseek
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7. Pubget: “Find papers fast.”
The search results ARE the papers—PDFs!
Synched w/home institution journal subscriptions
Customizable “latest issues” journal list
Easily browse your favorite journals
PaperPlane
Developed by Pubget
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Pubget
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9. eTBLAST: text similarity-based search engine
Uses natural language processing, keyword weighting, and sentence alignment to search MEDLINE (and more) for query-similar text.
Uses:
Find an expert
Find a journal
View publication history
Identify implicit keywords
Developed by UT Southwestern Computational Biology Group, serviced by Virginia Bioinformatics Institute eTBLAST team
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eTBLAST
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11. Deja Vu: database of highly similar & duplicate citations
Offshoot of eTBLAST
Identifies articles from Medline exhibiting similar if not identical text
Plagiarism buster!
Classifications:
Sanctioned
Distinct
No abstract
Duplicate
Erratum
Unverified
Developed by UT Southwestern Computational Biology Group, serviced by Virginia Bioinformatics Institute eTBLAST team
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Deja Vu
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13. Why They’re Cool… GoPubMed— Statistics! Novoseek— Grants!
Pubget— PDFs!
eTBLAST— Text Similarity!
Deja Vu— Plagiarism Buster!
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14. Good luck searching! Thanks for your attention. Carrie Iwema, PhD, MLS
Information Specialist in Molecular Biology
Health Sciences Library System
University of Pittsburgh