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Keeping Current with the Literature
1. Keeping Current with the Literature
Mark MacEachern
Liaison Services Librarian
Health Sciences Libraries
markmac@umich.edu
2. The problem
• Pubmed alone indexes approximately 5200 US journals
• MEDLINE contains 18+ million citations
• About 2000-4000 citations are added each week
• 670 943 added in 2007 (NLM data)*
*http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/bsd_key.html
6. What can I do?
1. Table of Contents alerts (PubMed, OvidSP, ISI)
2. Literature alerts (PubMed, OvidSP, ISI)
3. Google alerts
4. Blogs
5. Twitter
6. iTunes U (podcasts)
7. iGoogle
8. Read synthesized literature
– Cochrane
– ADA EBD
7. Definition aside – RSS
• Really Simple Syndication
• Communication medium (like email)
• RSS feeds – coupled with client aggregators – provide
a way to keep track of frequently updated, web-based
content…
• …without having to constantly go to individual
websites to see if they’ve changed
• Updated web content automatically comes to you
– Blogs, News, TOCs, Searches, Grant opportunities, etc.
8. RSS
Common Craft. RSS in Plain English (http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english)
20. 2. Literature Search Alert – PubMed – Conduct
Search
((periodontal diseases) OR (periodontium) OR (periodont*) OR
(periodontics)) AND (((diabetes mellitus) OR (diabetes insipidus)
OR (diabet*) OR ("dm 1" OR "dm i" OR "dm 2" OR "dm ii")) OR
((glycosylated hemoglobin a) OR (a1c OR "hb a1c" OR hba1c) OR
(blood glucose) OR ("blood sugar") OR ("glucose control") OR
("glucose level") OR ("sugar control") OR ("sugar level") OR
(hyperglycemia) OR (hypoglycemia) OR (glycemi*) OR (glycaemi*)
OR (hyperglyc*) OR (hypoglyc*)))