I try to follow the major semantic tools here (including Quertle):
Semantic search
http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Semantic_search
Dean Giustini, MLS, MEd
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Janice McCallum wrote:
> Coincidently, someone sent me a press release about Quertle today announcing
> that BioCrowd, a lifesciences networking site, is now using Quertle. I
> tweeted the news and asked if anyone had used Quertle. Then I check my
> email & find this useful info from the MedLib list. Here's a link to the
> press release:
> http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsLang=en&newsId=20110118007118&div=529299850
>
> Thanks!
> Janice
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Auburn Steward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Here is a summary of the responses I received in regards to the question I
>> asked last week about Quertle:
>>
>>
>> It's free, and seems to be a good addition to my list of places to search.
>> ___________________________________________________________________________
>> I haven't used it much, but I stopped at their booth at the MLA annual
>> meeting, and it looks very promising. I believe it is a free resource
>> organized / managed by a few librarians. I'm trying to remember what
>> they said to me in describing it....
>>
>> I think they assign keywords to resources, so that their search feature
>> will find things in a "smart" fashion, much as google does. They did
>> this among themselves, on their own time, to make work more manageable,
>> and recently decided to share it with the rest of us. Please don't quote
>> me, because I'm pulling from memory, not from notes, and the meeting was
>> last May / June.
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Yes I tried it a few times when it first came out but it only seemed to
>> work with topics about which there was a lot of literature -- that's my
>> guess as to the difference between when it got results and when it didn't,
>> but I could be wrong...
>> __________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Yes, I saw them at NLM - DC. Gave it a try, but does not hold any water
>> compared to Medline. Even with their coaster on my desk, I never seem to go
>> to their site.
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> was introduced to it at mla'10 last year. it is similar to clusty.com one
>> of them (I cannot remember which one) now has a religious bias to it and
>> won't "find" items that disagree with their beliefs (I wish I could remember
>> which one
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>> Since I sent this question last week, I ran some experimental searches on
>> it. In one search it missed a couple of articles from a four article series
>> when I chose limit the search terms that I had used to the "Key Concept" of
>> "occupational. It also missed one of the articles in that same series when
>> I added a title word common to all of them to limit the results rather than
>> using key concept. I can see how it might be useful for an inexperienced
>> searcher since it would help them narrow their focus. It does link to
>> PubMed so you can view the record there if you are interested in viewing
>> MeSH headings, related articles etc. There are links to the entire article
>> on PubMed Central if the article is available there. It also links to
>> PubGet as a resource to download or purchase the article. I still prefer
>> PubMed but that is based on years of experience using it and other NLM
>> databases. If I spent a lot of time using Quertle and learning the ins and
>> outs of how it works, I might find it useful but I think I'll stick with
>> PubMed for now.
>>
>>
>> Auburn Steward, MLIS, AHIP
>> Center for Toxicology & Environmental Health
>> Library
>> 5120 North Shore Drive
>> North Little Rock, AR 72118
>> 501-801-8614
>> 501-801-8615 (fax)
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Medical Libraries Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Auburn Steward
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:54 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: ?: Have you used Quertle?
>>
>> One of the toxicologists here just sent me a link to Quertle which
>> describes itself as "relationship driven biomedical research". I hadn't
>> seen this before and wondered if anyone else has used it. I'd be interested
>> in hearing your comments and will summarize for the list.
>>
>> http://www.quertle.info/v2/?cmp=ts1
>>
>>
>> Auburn Steward, MLIS, AHIP
>> Center for Toxicology & Environmental Health
>> Library
>> 5120 North Shore Drive
>> North Little Rock, AR 72118
>> 501-801-8614
>> 501-801-8615 (fax)
>> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>
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