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FOR PHYSICIANS |
update 7/01 by sda | |
| Major Medical Databases | |||
| Pub Med Grateful Med / NLM |
indexes 4,000+ journals
has 40 databases & Medline |
from Medline--data since1966 | |
| MedLinePlus |
need to dig down fast, lists popular first |
lots of links perhaps biggest database |
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| Meta-Search Engines | |||
| MedsiteNavigator HealthGate HealthFinder |
CliniWeb MetaCrawler MWSearch MedNet |
DogPile PowerSearch Eureka MetaSearch.com |
MEL HealthAtoZ |
| General Search Engines | Members Only | Organizations & Topics | |
| AltaVista Excite InfoSeek Yahoo Lycos Northern Light |
HotBot Mamma Ask Jeeves Physicians On Line Harrison's On Line* |
MedMatrix PDR MDConsult* OncoLink MedScape PDQ |
ACP-ASIM
links CDC ZDNET-Medical Merck Manuel RxList MerckMedicus |
| Power Tips to TurboCharge your Web Searches |
1) use
Boolean
terms
AND OR
NOT (use all caps) 2) open Word & copy data to Word then print once at end (control-A, control-C, control-v) 3) use Key Word as first word in your search string 4) to require a set phrase use " " or ( ) 5) turn off graphics if the WWW is the World Wide Wait |
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circa 2001:
Note that the WWW is perhaps only about 10% of the Internet.
In 1999 the WWW was doubling in size
about every 4 months.
7/01 over 1 Billion web pages & 65 x that many in searchable databases
Other parts of the intranet can have far more info-- e.g. Intranets,Telnet, Usenet, FTP, Gopher.
Note that major search engines search perhaps only about 30% of the WEB
and search engines search
in different ways. Their search data is also sorted in different ways
and generally this is by a
combination of popularity, payment, quality, relevancy.
There are over 500 Search Engines on the web (actually
3,000 plus 6/00) (see Search
Engine Watch for a list)
Shorten an address name to it's root directory when looking for more info at a given site.