Keeping Up

Exercises

• Subscribe to the NEJM email TOC and use the EZProxy bookmarklet to access full text.
• Subscribe to a journal TOC in your area
• Register and create a topic alert at BMJUpDates
• Create an alert on a more specific topic at MyNCBI or PubMed Informer
• Add an article to Connotea using their bookmarklet or FireFox/opera add on.

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)

• Annals, Archives, BMJ, JAMA, NEJM (all are e-hosted by Stanford's HighWire Press)
  • Sample email (NEJM)
• Lancet (hosted by Elsevier)

Journal Aggregators - 'Synoptic journals'

Aggregators

		Publisher	Scope	Delay	CME*	Comments
ACP Journal Club	www.acpjc.org	American College of Physicians	Internal Medicine	6 or more months		Overlap with Evidence-Based Medicine
BMJ Updates	www.bmjupdates.com sample email	BMJ Publishing Group	Primary Care	1-2 months		• Free • Abstracts only without commentaries • Can select many topics for your alerts • Can save articles online • Feeds into Evidence Based Medicine??
Evidence Based Medicine	ebm.bmjjournals.com	BMJ Publishing Group	Primary Care	6 or more months
FirstWatch	firstwatch.jwatch.org sample email	Massachusetts Medical Society	Primary Care	1-3 days		• Free
InfoPoems	www.infopoems.com sample email	InfoPoems Inc	Primary Care	2-3 months
Journal Watch	www.jwatch.org sample email	Massachusetts Medical Society	General and selected subspecialties	2-4 weeks	Yes	Multiple subscpecialty editions
New York Times?	www.NYTimes.com sample email	New York Times	example	None		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.

SDIs (Selective Dissemination of Information)

Note: SDIs usually provide citations only without commentaries

• BMJ UpDates (free)
  • Sample email
• HighWire (fulltext)
  • Website to register
  • Sample email (for informatics)
• MyNCBI (PubMed - free)
  • Website to register
  • Sample email (for physical examination)

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
  • Registration
  • Bookmarklet

Products

Product	Vendor	Storage of citations	Cost	Bookmarklet	Word Processor Integration	Comments
EndNote	ISI	Desktop/PDA	$	Not applicable	Yes	PDA version is very clunky
Reference Manager	ISI	Desktop	$	Not applicable	Yes
Procite	ISI	Desktop	$	Not applicable	Yes
WriteNote	ISI	Online	No UTHSCSA access
Connotea	Nature	Online	Free	Yes	Yes (with Office 2007)	•  Not perfect yet; keep an eye on this one •  A FireFox addon to integrate PubMed with Connotea or •  Example of using a Greasemonkey script on FireFox to integrate PubMed with Connotea
MyNCBI	NCBI	Online	Free			• MyNCBI is better at storing searches than articles. • Offers no bibliography management.
Refworks Example is http://medicine.uthscsa.edu/biblio/	RefWorks	Online	Institional access or $100/year	Yes pmid & isbn	MS Word for Windows/Mac	• Can create multiple bibliographies. • Can give users read/write or read only access. • A bit slow and clunky. • Must be on UTHSCSA computer or proxy
Zotero	George Mason University	Desktop	Free	Not applicable	MS Word for Windows/Mac	•  Not perfect yet; keep an eye on this one •  Limited bibilography styles currently available

Futuristic, comprehensive knowledge management for the individual

• CogniQ, but will it not develop as well because it is commercial and not open source?