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
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> 501-801-8615 (fax)
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>
>
> -----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]>
>