I never really appreciated the full use of the many of the add-on tools that can be used in conjunction with PubMed. PubMed remains more reliable than Google Scholar and all other pretenders to its throne as the best place to look for papers i.e. it’s the gold standard for finding medical research and hence for making evidence-based decisions. However, although it contains all that the most brilliant academics and the most cutting-edge consultants in the world know, it has not always been easy to find this information. It comes equipped with online training, which I do find myself coming back to now and again. Ben Goldacre has published a very quick guide to using Hubmed, which I did not really understand before. It is reasonably simple to use PubMed by itself to create RSS feeds from customised searches, but it seems to make a lot more sense with HubMed. If nothing else, it is a less forbidding front-end to the sum of human knowledge.
- Dom
