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 UBC biomedical branch librarian Diamond Health Care Centre and Vancouver Hospital Vancouver BC, Canada V5Z 1M9 blog: http:/blogs.ubc.ca/dean wiki: http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca twitter I: http://twitter.com/giustini twitter II: http://twitter.com/bmblib librarything: http://www.librarything.com/profile/bmblib 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 > -- > Janice McCallum > Health Content Advisors > 781.356.1766 > 617.529.2594 (cell) > twitter: @janicemccallum > 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]> >> >