Medical literature retrieval

For broader coverage of this topic, see Medical literature.

Medical literature retrieval or medical document retrieval is an activity that uses professional methods for medical research papers retrieval, report and other data to improve medicine research and practice.

Medical search engine

Professional medical search engine

• PubMed
• GoPubMed
• Pubget
• Scopus
• eTBLAST
• Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library
• SciELO
• Twease

Meta-search tools

• Trip
• NLM Gateway
• Entrez, NLM's cross-database search
• SUMSearch

Consumer health search engine

• MedlinePlus by the U.S. NLM
• Healthfinder by the U.S. HHS
• Mednar
• Healthline
• Medstory
• Healia

See also

• European Federation for Medical Informatics
• Evidence-based medicine
• Health informatics
• International Medical Informatics Association
• List of search engines § Medical
• Medical Subject Headings

External links

• MEDLINE/PubMed
• William R. Hersh. Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. 2003, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-95522-4
• Vincenta B. Vincentb M. Ferreira CG. Making PubMed Searching Simple: Learning to Retrieve Medical Literature Through Interactive Problem Solving. 2005, The Oncologist, Vol. 11 No. 3 243-251
• The Top Five Medical Search Engines on the Web Archived 2007-11-22 at the Wayback Machine at About.com by Wendy Boswell
• 25 Search Engines Every Medical Professional Should Bookmark
• PubMed Alternative Engines at American University of Beirut University Libraries