It is possible to find in the medical literature many articles that have been neglected or ignored, in some cases for many years, but which are worth bringing to light because they report unusual findings that may be of current scientific interest. Resurrecting previously published but neglected hypotheses that have merit might be overlooked because it would seem to lack the novelty of "discove...

This article addresses the task of mining concepts from biomedical literature to index and search through this documents base. This research takes place within the Telemakus project, which has for goal to support and facilitate the knowledge discovery process by providing retrieval, visual, and interaction tools to mine and map research findings from research literature in the field of aging. A...

Growing research suggests that simply encoding data (i.e. traditional study – taking notes, generating lists etc.) may not be as effective as concept mapping (i.e. make unique and personalized links between new and existing knowledge construct a diagram with nodes representing concepts and drawing links between nodes to represent relationships). This construct assumes that learning only occurs ...

This article addresses the task of mining cases from biomedical literature to automatically build an initial case base for a case-based reasoning (CBR) system. This research takes place within the Mémoire project, which has for goal to provide a framework to facilitate building CBR systems in biology and medicine. By analyzing medical literature, the ProCaseMiner system mines for medical concep...

Over the past few years there has been a growing concern within the world’s scientific communities about access to scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature. This concern has given rise to a movement within scientific and medical circles known as the “open-access” movement. Over the last 12 months, this concern has leapt from the acid-free pages of the world’s STM journals to the news...

Medical search engines are used everyday by both medical practitioners and the public to find the latest medical literature and guidance regarding conditions and treatments. Importantly, the information needs that drive medical search can vary between users for the same query, as clinicians search for content specific to their own area of expertise, while the public search about topics of inter...

Editor’s Note: In this column, teachers who are currently using literary and artistic materials as part of their curricula will briefly summarize specific works, delineate their purposes and goals in using these media, describe their audience and teaching strategies, discuss their methods of evaluation, and speculate about the impact of these teaching tools on learners (and teachers). Submissio...

BACKGROUND Medical-surgical or adult health nursing is a complex specialty that requires a wide-ranging literature to inform its research and practice. Several excellent qualitative aids exist for collection development for this field, but quantitative studies are few. While one bibliometric study of journals exists, no recent work had been done in this area. METHOD The Mapping the Literature...