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Sep 24

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Scienceroll Search: Improvements

WebLib made some improvements again to Scienceroll Search, the first personalized medical search engine.

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

  • Now Webicina.com is added to the database
  • Clusters became better as there can be more results for the search queries
  • Source clustering is available

Sep 2

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HealthBase and the Semantic Fail

I wanted to write about Healthbase, a new medical search engine, but David Rothman was faster. He found some serious mistakes in the search itself.

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Well, the concept to reduce the number of results to a definitive list of categories is a good one. But it leads to some mistakes. First, it searches in databases such as Wikipedia. You cannot find a bigger fan of Wikipedia than me, but still it’s not suitable for such a search engine.

Second, sometimes there are strange things in the results. Only one example below. It seems to suggest that a possible treatment for diabetes is mouse. Of course, it just found articles mentioning mouse models in the research of diabetes treatments, but it cannot deal with the information properly.

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So there are a lot of things to do before becoming the ultimate engine. Until then, my suggestion is Scienceroll Search, the first personalized medical search engine:

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Jul 28

Scienceroll Search: New Resource

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

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The newest addition is Health Sciences Online.

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Please let me know if you have a suggestion.

May 23

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NHS Evidence: Searching Evidence-Based Medicine

Two days ago, NHS Evidence was reported on the website of PHG Foundation:

The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has launched a new portal to allow both health and social care professionals to access sources of clinical and non-clinical evidence. NHS Evidence will “help users identify the best evidence by sorting, sifting and prioritising a range of information” (see press release).

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Let’s do a search for hypertension:

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You can filter your results by areas of interest; type of information; clinical query; sources; medicines and devices.

Feel free to compare these with the results you can get on Scienceroll Search, a personalized medical search engine:

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Feb 28

Scienceroll.com: Weekly Introduction

I would like to share my favourite and ongoing projects with you so I can give you a proper introduction to Scienceroll.com.

Medicine 2.0 University Course: This is the second semester of the first university course that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students. Last semester, almost 50 students attended the 20 slideshows through 10 weeks and they filled a survey out before and after the course. I launched the second semester for English-speaking students (February – May, 2009). I’m open to launch the same course in Second Life.

Medicine20 Course 4 by you.

Medicine 2.0 Collection: I maintain the biggest collection of links and posts focusing on web 2.0 and medicine.

Webicina.com is my service that aims to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 era by providing them with e-courses, consulting and personalized packages.

PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free tool that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place. You can create your own “medical journal” and as we are totally open to suggestions, let us add the journals, blogs and websites that you would like to follow.

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Diabetes 2.0 Package: If you would like to know which web 2.0 tools can provide support or reliable health information, which communities to join and which quality blogs to read, this personalized package is made for you.

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Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

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Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival and Microvarnival: The blog carnival focusing on web 2.0 and medicine. Let me know if you have a submission or if you want to host an edition.

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Gene Genie is the blog carnival of genes, personalized genomics and gene-related diseases. Our plan is to cover the whole genome before 2082 (it means 14-15 genes every two weeks). Let me know if you have a submission or if you want to host an edition.

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List of biomedical and scientific community sites: More than 30 communities with links, descriptions and screenshots.

List of Biomedical video sites: Almost 40 sites featuring scientific or medical videos and videocasts.

Feb 16

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Scienceroll Medical Search: Preview the results!

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

Now you can preview the results without leaving the search engine. Just click on the magnifier icon on the right to open the website below the link.

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The improvements of this metasearch engine will only depend on your feedback. Give it a try!

Further reading:

Jan 30

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Scienceroll Search: Order by Date and New Resources

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

Now we added a new funcion. You can sort search results by relevance or by date.

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When date is not assigned to a site, it will be listed in the bottom of the list.

We also added two more resources, Google Scholar and the National Library of Medicine.

If you want to add other resources, please let us know.

Guus van den Brekel at DigiCMB just inserted the search widget into his blog.

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Feel free to do the same on your blog!

Further reading:

Jan 28

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Hope Leman reviews Scienceroll Search

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

Now Hope Leman reviews it on AltSearchEngines.com.

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Further reading:

Jan 9

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Add ScienceRoll Medical Search to your blog

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by PolyMeta search and clustering engine. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

Hope Leman has recently had a quite positive review about it at AltSearchEngines.com.

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Now you can add this search engine to your website or blog just like Cleveland.com did.

You feedback is invaluable for us.

Further reading:

Jan 6

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Scienceroll Search: Review

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by Polymeta.com. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like.

Now one of my favourite writers, Hope Leman at AltSearchEngines.com, reviewed Sciencerollsearch.com and had positive thoughts on our search engine:

I was quite impressed with the drug information I was able to find on ScienceRoll. I tried out as my search term Riluzole, the only drug that seems to have any effect in extending survival for those with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and ScienceRoll very helpfully suggested, “Also Consider: Rilutek.”

I certainly found some excellent material on ScienceRoll. For example, if I were a nurse or health science student or simply a loved one of a person with a serious condition, I would try out ScienceRoll. It is a useful complement to MedlinePlus and indeed surpasses it in some ways in terms of comprehensiveness.

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I’m so happy and I hope you will use and like the search engine. Your feedback, as always, is invaluable for us.

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