Using Search Engines to Find Online Medical Information

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020228

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Using Search Engines to Find Online Medical Information

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Using Search Engines to Find Online Medical Information

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Published: August 2, 2005
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020228

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Another search engine

Posted by plosmedicine on 30 Mar 2009 at 23:48 GMT

Author: pablo Albornoz
Position: Student
Institution: Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
E-mail: pablodalbornoz@yahoo.com.ar
Submitted Date: November 07, 2005
Published Date: November 11, 2005
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.

Another useful search engine is at Stanford University Libraries' Highwire Press (http://highwire.stanford....), which can search all journals hosted by them together with Pubmed. They also claim that "HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content".

Competing interests declared: I declare that I have no competing interest.

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Posted by plosmedicine on 30 Mar 2009 at 23:48 GMT