National Library of Medicine adds Vivisimo search
This looks very promising...
...for reasons that might not be apparent from this clipping. Vivisimo are the makers of the Clusty search clustering engine. This is a very useful way to search PubMed. Originally it was called ClusterMed but has gone through a couple of renaming and new URLs since then.
Currently, you can use ClusterMed at this URL...but I have found that the link to this has changed many times. Don't let that put you off - it is a great way to search PubMed where you find that your original search brings far too many results. The results clustering makes it much easier and more intuitive to zero in on what you want.
What I am hoping is that this new relationship between the NLM and Vivisimo will produce some useful integration of ClusterMed into PubMed's offerings. It's not mentioned in the clip but I'd be surprised if that was not part of the benefit in some way. Stay tuned.
posted by David Topps @ 8:45 PM
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I have been using Vivisimo to search for over a year now and I love it. The clustering option is so great. For example if you look for something like Queen's University, it will cluster for the one in Belfast, Kingston or Charlotte, etc. So I am interested in how this will work in pubmed....and whether or not other databases will look at this clustering option.
Yeah, I'm becoming a big fan of clustered searches, and the Vivisimo tool certainly makes it easy.
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