By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence [Check out additional articles on PubMed & Plant-Based Foods] Olive oil as a healthy food is a highly popular topic among consumers. It’s also popular among […]

By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence [Check out additional articles on PubMed & Plant-Based Foods] Part of the problem in searching for food in PubMed is that it’s often the case that there’s […]

By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence [Check out additional articles on PubMed & Plant-Based Foods] As we’ve written, searching for food-related subjects in PubMed is difficult because of the way the MeSH system […]

By Sarah Andrews and Eric Rumsey Many medical and nursing journals now use Twitter. On their Twitter sites, they share links to journal articles and sometimes other news items in […]

In our previous article, we talked about a ranking list done by Altmetric of the most popular research articles of 2013. An interesting anecdotal story at the Reference desk just […]

By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence In December, Altmetric published a list of the most popular research papers of 2013 <http://www.altmetric.com/top100>. The Altmetric site has developed a method to quantify […]

By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence, and guest author Chris Shaffer, former Hardin librarian, now University Librarian, Oregon Health & Science Univ Explosions are a powerful, built-in feature of PubMed that […]

By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As discussed in an earlier article, searching for Food-Diet-Nutrition in PubMed is difficult because the subject is spread around in several different places in […]

By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As discussed in a previous article, searching for Food, Diet, and Nutrition in PubMed is tricky because the relevant Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) for […]

By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence Much of the power of PubMed searching is due to the elegant Medical Subject Heading [MeSH] system used to index articles. When you type […]