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Sunday, October 4th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Dr Shock MD PhD
PubMed has redesigned their interface. The changes to PubMed are outlined in the NLM Technical Bulletin. Medical Librarian’s reviewed the redesign, most of them not very pleased. Laikas has the most detailed review of them all.
Her main points of critique are:
- Wasted screen real estate on the front page
- History is gone from the front page. You could see your search history in a tab of it’s own on the front page, very useful to combine prior searches or to see the number of results from prior searches
- The detail tab has also gone from the front page. This means you can’t see the details of your query or the way PubMed interpreted your search only via advanced search.
- Her main objection is the new tab for Advanced search
in contrast to the front page this one is full of limits, indexes and bars that should be wisely (and often not) applied. For people searching for evidence this site is not handy at all. In fact, I find it a real nuisance to use.
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