Watch out PubMed, there’s a new competitor on the medical search engine market. Novoseek is a Madrid-based information technology company that mines websites such as PubMed, Free Full Text, and U.S. Grants, performing searches that can detect key concepts (such as genes, diseases, drugs, or chemical substances). In contrast to PubMed’s Limit Tab, Novoseek has a filter tool bar that appears on the left-hand column after having performed an initial search. For instance, an initial search on “cat allergies” brings up 326 search free full text articles, but using the “filter by concept” allows one to further refine the search by clicking on any of the key concepts appearing on the left hand side of the page.
You can build your refined search by clicking on one concept at a time, which may seem slow to those adept at PubMed searching. However, Novoseek’s page layout provides an appealing and more visually intuitive way to refine your search. It may not necessarily yield as many results as the other search engines, but could be a good starting point for some to hone in on various options specific to their subject searches.
Please note that the UC-eLinks button will not appear in Novoseek and that UCLA may actually subscribe to more full-text than is indicated in Novoseek. If you find an article in Novoseek for which the full-text is unavailable, please check the UCLA Library Catalog to determine whether we have full-text access to the journal.
<Submitted by Jessica Levy>
