Comments on: Do you hate Pubmed? Here is the solution!

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:43:05 +0000

PubMed is not as bad, but probably because it have been improved by now. Another good scientific search engine is for example http://www.science.sequere.eu/

By: Brice

Brice — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:41:13 +0000

Hello,
As you know, it is not always easy to find scientific articles in free full text.
For this reason, with google technology, i have created a custom search engine in order to find free full text scientific articles in PDF Format. This search engine indexes more than 10 millions of free references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports).

You can try it at this address: http://goo.gl/248em

By: Bertalan Meskó

Bertalan Meskó — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:45:10 +0000

Thank you, Thomas ,for the comment! I’m glad you gave it a try.

Actually, the mission of Scienceroll Search is not to be better than Pubmed itself (because it cannot be), but to be able to cover all the information you can find in different types of medical search engines in one place.

If you compare Pubmed and only Pubmed to SR, it won’t be worse. But if you take into consideration that SR also searches in drug databases, WHO sites, Meldine Plus, and many other reliable sites, Pubmed cannot beat that.

Berci

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:41:38 +0000

I gave it a try: When I select Pubmed to do my search and exclude all other search engines, I takes ScienceRoll much longer compared to Pubmed to generate a list of only 20 hits – where Pubmed normally generates a lot more hits. With SR, I don’t have Pubmed’s linkout options or ‘related articles’. Nor any of the other Pubmed goodies. Of course Pubmed isn’t google and never intended to be that. Pubmed haters should also give gopubmed and hubmed a try.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:06:50 +0000

i agree with Anna……… infact I have recently resorted to xtractor- http://www.xtractor.in which provides me with manual validated PUBMED content everyday for free. May be all pubmed users should try it out

By: jessie

jessie — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:35:30 +0000

If you have a mac, you should try this tool called PubSearch, it’s much easier to use, and fast, than the web interface to PubMed :

http://www.deathraypizza.com

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By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:33:09 +0000

I've just given your search engine a shout out on ChemSpy. Is there a quick way to add it as a search engine option in Firefox? Meanwhile, I too am slightly baffled by Anna's pubmedophobia I can usually find the information I need very quickly, but nevertheless a meta search tool like ScienceRollSearch could be even more useful. How easy would it be to clone this tool and edit it for another subject area (chemistry for instance?) db

By: Cesar

Cesar — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:41:48 +0000

Nice job Bercy
I have try your metasearch engine and is very effective looking for important information. Although I think that can not replace to pubmed because it is traditionally used to look for articles for research and is a necessary tool for metaanalysis.

By: Jan Martens

Jan Martens — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:18:03 +0000

How about adding RSS to Sciencerollsearch so I get updates when new results of a search appear?

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By: Bertalan Meskó

Bertalan Meskó — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:05:23 +0000

Thank you all for your valuable comments and feedback. In an upcoming post, I will mention and answer everything.

By: Kay at Suicyte

Kay at Suicyte — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:54:17 +0000

Is there any place where I can read what exactly people think is bad about Pubmed? I am a heavy Pubmed user myself and never had any complaints about their search engine. The only criticism I can think of is the fact that the precomputed ‘similar article’ searches almost always link to papers that are older than the one currently being looked at. This suggests that the similarities for a paper are only computed once, when the paper is fairly new. It would be better to have regular updates to also include papers that are newer.

By: Ole Eichhorn

Ole Eichhorn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:01:37 +0000

This is awesome! And it deserves its own domain:

http://ScienceRollSearch.com

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By: elvis

elvis — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:44:58 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with Martin. Using which tool to do the search depends on what your purposes are. For students doing their course work, for lay persons looking for some background information, and anyone looking for quick answer to a question, Google type search engine is enough to fill the requests. For biomedical scientific research, PubMed is a must database. Those who are not satisfied with or hate PubMed should learn more about PubMed. The more you use PubMed the more you’ll like it. Think about and learn about what’s behind PubMed, you will take back what you said. Go to your medical librarians, they would be happy to show you some tips and tricks about using Pubmed.

I tried a few searches on your search engine and love it. However, to do a comprehensive literature search on biomedical topics, I would still stick to and start my search with PubMed. All other search engines could add as supplements.

By: mcgirc

mcgirc — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:27:51 +0000

Bertalan, great innitiative. I will support it. WOuld it be possible to add MDPIXX as a source of medical information.

If yes, MDPIXX can integrate your search engine in the site to get more results.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:41:42 +0000

Anna is just wrong about PubMed: not knowing how a tool works does not make the tool bad!
I’ll give your meta-engina a try, thanks!

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