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BabelMesh and Txt2MEDLINE

22. February 2007 by ob | Kategorien: Medline, NLM

[Thanks Krafty]
Here are two new options for searching MEDLINE courtsey of NLM.

BabelMesh is a cross-language search to MEDLINE/PubMed. Users can search using single terms or complex phrases in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The citations and abstracts retrieved will still be in English only.
To search BabelMesh go to http://babelmesh.nlm.nih.gov/
For more information read:
Liu, F, Fontelo P, Ackerman MJ. BabelMeSH: Developmentof a Cross-Language Tool for MEDLINE/PubMed. 2006.

Txt2MEDLINE, in beta test, a text messaging system for processing incoming Short Message Service (SMS) queries, retrieving medical journal citations from MEDLINE/PubMed and sending them back to the user in the text message format.

To check out Txt2MEDLINE go to: http://sms.nlm.nih.gov/tbl/index3.php
For more information read:
Fontelo P, Liu, F, et al. Txt2MEDLINE:Text-Messaging Access to MEDLINE/PubMed. 2006