After scanning through and taking a look at the huge list of sites in the Web 2.0 awards, I settled on Medstory http://www.medstory.com/
I was impressed with this site partly because it really did live up to it's claim of being an 'Intelligent Search for Health & Medicine', and partly because of its smart setup for refining your search.
One of the really smart features of this site is the use of the mini pop-up windows with helpful suggestions on how to refine or change your search. It uses a kind of mashtag that helps you quickly get to the specifics of exactly what you want to know, rather than having to trawl through endless irrelevant data.
I'm not sure if this is typical of most libraries, but I've fielded a number of questions from patrons about health matters, and after pointing them in the direction of appropriate books, and showing them our Digital Library, I have tentatively helped them with google searches-- with much trepidation as to the quality of the information they will find. I will now lead them to Medstory with far greater confidence. So, yes, it definitely has a useful application in a library setting.
It is also a great example of how to set up this kind of research tool.
So I'm back in order now-- onwards to task 21!
I was impressed with this site partly because it really did live up to it's claim of being an 'Intelligent Search for Health & Medicine', and partly because of its smart setup for refining your search.
One of the really smart features of this site is the use of the mini pop-up windows with helpful suggestions on how to refine or change your search. It uses a kind of mashtag that helps you quickly get to the specifics of exactly what you want to know, rather than having to trawl through endless irrelevant data.
I'm not sure if this is typical of most libraries, but I've fielded a number of questions from patrons about health matters, and after pointing them in the direction of appropriate books, and showing them our Digital Library, I have tentatively helped them with google searches-- with much trepidation as to the quality of the information they will find. I will now lead them to Medstory with far greater confidence. So, yes, it definitely has a useful application in a library setting.
It is also a great example of how to set up this kind of research tool.
So I'm back in order now-- onwards to task 21!
1 comments:
It's great that it concentrates on the specifics and you don't end up with 'fluffy' information :)
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