Keeping Current with the Literature Mark MacEachern Liaison Services Librarian Health Sciences Libraries [email protected]
Nov 16, 2014
Keeping Current with the Literature
Mark MacEachern
Liaison Services Librarian
Health Sciences Libraries
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
The problem is not new
So, how much time would it take?
627.5hours / month
So, how much time would it take?
What can I do?
1. Table of Contents alerts (PubMed, OvidSP, ISI)2. Literature alerts (PubMed, OvidSP, ISI)3. Google alerts4. Blogs5. Twitter6. iTunes U (podcasts)7. iGoogle 8. Read synthesized literature
– Cochrane– ADA EBD
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.
RSS
Common Craft. RSS in Plain English (http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english)
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – Find Journal(s)
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – Find Journal(s)
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – Find Journal(s)
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – Save Search
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – Save Search
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – Save Search
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – Save Search
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – RSS
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – RSS
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – RSS
1. TOC Alerts – PubMed – Google Reader
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*)))
2. Literature Search Alert – PubMed – Conduct Search
2. Literature Search Alert – PubMed – Save Search
2. Literature Search Alert – PubMed – Save Search – MyNCBI
2. Literature Search Alert – PubMed – Receive Email
2. Literature Search Alert – PubMed – RSS
2. Literature Search Alert – PubMed – RSS
3. Google Alerts
e.g.: (smoking OR smoker OR tobacco) AND dental implants
e.g.: “mark maceachern”
3. Google Alerts
3(a). Google News Alerts
3(a). Google News Alerts (email)
4. Blogs – Dental
http://www.thenewdentistblog.com/
4. Blogs – Dental
http://implantblog.wordpress.com/
4. Blogs – Dental
http://dentaltechnologyblog.blogspot.com/
4. Blogs - General
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/
5. Twitter
http://twitter.com/
6. iTunes U – Dentistry
6. iTunes U – Dentistry
7. iGoogle
http://www.google.com/ig
8. Synthesized Litearture – ADA EBD
http://ebd.ada.org/
8. Synthesized Literature – Cochrane