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ARS (opens in new window) - Proxy me
Keeping up
Features to look for
- Content
- Scope of domain
- Broad: FirstWatch (sample email) covers all of health care
- Medium: BMJUpdates (sample email) has numerous channels and also a quality filter
- Narrow: MyNCBI & PubMed Informer (sample email) lets you set up a custom alert on very specific topics
- Very narrow: HighWire and Elsevier are major publishers of journals. Through them you can set up a custom alert based on any word in the full text of the article in the journals they cover. Good if you have a very narrow clinical or research focus.
- Delay between article publication and coverage.
- Convenience
- Media (print, email, Internet, audio)
- Searchable online archive
- CME
- Online storage of favorites (this is not as important if you have another way to store articles online such as Connotea or RefWorks.
Journal web sites
(all have free email table of contents that can be accessed at home with the UTHSCSA Proxy Me bookmarklet)
Journal Aggregators - 'Synoptic journals'
Aggregators
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Scope |
Delay |
CME* |
Comments |
| ACP Journal Club |
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American College of Physicians |
Internal Medicine |
6 or more months |
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Overlap with Evidence-Based Medicine |
BMJ Updates |
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BMJ Publishing Group |
Primary Care |
1-2 months |
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• Free
• Abstracts only without commentaries
• Can select many topics for your alerts
• Can save articles online
• Feeds into Evidence Based Medicine?? |
| Evidence Based Medicine |
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BMJ Publishing Group |
Primary Care |
6 or more months |
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| FirstWatch |
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Massachusetts Medical Society |
Primary Care |
1-3 days |
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• Free |
| InfoPoems |
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InfoPoems Inc |
Primary Care |
2-3 months |
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| Journal Watch |
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Massachusetts Medical Society |
General and selected subspecialties |
2-4 weeks |
Yes |
Multiple subscpecialty editions
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| New York Times? |
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New York Times |
example |
None |
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Do this by setting up an alert to be emailed when articles contain the full name of a journal you are interested in, for example "New England Journal of Medicine", "Journal of the American Medical Association" , etc. |
*Note that you can also pay to recieve CME credit if you use a personal subscription to UpToDate.
SDIs (Selective Dissemination of Information)
Note: SDIs usually provide citations only without commentaries
- BMJ UpDates (free)
- HighWire (fulltext)
- MyNCBI (PubMed - free)
Article management
Tips
- Use 'RIS' format for importing/exporting between programs
- Use 'Medline' / 'PubMed' format to import from PubMed to ISI, RefWorks
- Consider tagging keywords since groups are not transferrable between commerical products
- Use your UTHSCSA proxy for off campus access
Products
Futuristic, comprehensive knowledge management for the individual
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CogniQ, but will it not develop as well because it is commercial and not open source?
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