Pubmed is LIVE on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of July 21, 2014)

PubMed Update: Social Media Icons Added. NLM Tech Bull. 2014 Jul-Aug;(399):b2. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja14/brief/ja14_pm_social_media_icons.html Have you been straddling the fence deciding whether or not social media is "a thing" in healthcare? Well, maybe this will tip the balance. Pubmed now includes social media sharing icons at the article level, as shown in the image above. This is …

PubMed Commons: New comment forum on PubMed

From the PubMed Commons Blog: If you are one of the millions of people who visit PubMed today, be on the look-out for something different. On each abstract page, there’s now a section called PubMed Commons. It’s a forum for scientific discussion on publications open to any authors in the world’s largest biomedical literature database. Several …

Sharing Research on Twitter — Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of January 13, 2014)

Last week in the #medlibs chat on altmetrics, Donna Kafel shared an interesting article on how research articles are shared in social media. @pfanderson @mascher @michigandrea #medlibs Study conducted by libs on most Tweeted scholarly articles. http://t.co/H0RJVebeDR — Donna Kafel (@dmkafel) January 10, 2014 Haustein S, Peters I, Sugimoto CR, Thelwall M, Larivière V. Tweeting …

PubMed’s end of year processing & your searches

The University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System has posted a good explanation of what "end-of-year processing" means for PubMed and for searching--& what you should do about it:  Why is Searching PubMed in Late Autumn Different than Any Other Time of the Year?

New publication model for PubMed citations

In mid-June 2013, a new publication model, Electronic-eCollection, was introduced for PubMed citations from electronic-only journals. "Electronic-eCollection" means that an article is published electronically on a specific date and is also associated with an electronic collection date (similar to an issue; this date can be a year or a year and month, but never a year, month, and …

New public health MeSH terms for 2014

Each year, PubMed adds, changes, & deletes terms in the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) database, which contains all the terms used to index articles in Medline.  I'm always excited (yes, really!) to see what new terms are available for public health, since that makes searching so much easier & accurate.  I've gathered a list of the new terms …

PubMed Commons: New Space for Discussion among Researchers

Earlier this week, NCBI announced the released a pilot of PubMed Commons, a feature that enables commenting on article abstracts by researchers. According to the NCBI blog, the new feature is in response to requests by the scientific community. Their goal is to encourage constructive criticism and discussion of scientific issues. For now, PubMed Commons is …

PubMed “relevance sort”

On October 22, a new option was added to PubMed:  Relevance sort.   This option is available from the Display Settings menu under Sort by. The relevance sort is based on an algorithm that analyzes each PubMed citation that includes the search terms.  A "weight" is calculated for citations depending on how many search terms are …

Changes to My NCBI Saved Searches

The My NCBI Saved Search Settings page has been modified to let you edit search terms.You can change the search in the "Search terms" box, and then click the "Test search terms" link to check the search in PubMed before saving your edited search.Click the "Save" button after you make any changes to the search name, search terms, …

Non-English abstracts in PubMed

Publishers will soon have the opportunity to submit non-English abstracts to PubMed. The additional language view(s) will be links on the Abstract display, with bold text indicating the language currently displayed (see Figure 1). The abstract text will default to English when a citation has an accompanying non-English abstract. Figure 1: Abstract Language Display Options on the …