Best Way to Find Research Articles
If you spend any significant amount of time searching for scientific articles then you may find this helpful.
My method for finding an article used to involve Googling my desired topic, only to realize I am not getting the publications needed. I then resort to searching with Google scholar.
Many of you may be familiar with PubMed, as it is a popular alternative. I haven’t been using PubMed because you can’t download full articles directly from their site. Although, sometimes I will search PubMed, find the article title and then search for that article specifically using Google.
After coming across this new program, I will never use PubMed again.
The answer…… is HubMed.
The site is easy to use: type in your desired topic, hit enter.
Why use HubMed?
1) HubMed tracks down the full article (unlike PubMed ) and allows you to view it easily.
2) Web feeding ability (what is a web feed?)
3) Huge time saver when citing, especially with Endnote (detailed info here)
4) Has a Firefox search plugin so you don’t have to go to the site, just toggle to the symbol.
5) Rank Relations – select a number of articles, add to the clipboard, click rank, and a list of articles is generated that closely relate to the original selected articles (detailed info here)
6) TouchGraph Applet – select a number of articles, add to clipboard, click graph (detailed info here)
For example, I searched “lysozyme matthews” and decided to only select articles (by clicking on ‘Clip’) with ‘T4′ in their title. There is a counter located next to the ‘clipboard’ button found in the upper right. Everytime you select (by clicking on ‘Clip’), an article, the number increases.
Click on ‘clipboard’ followed by ‘Graph’ in blue, right side, below the article abstract. After clicking Graph, the following image appears showing how different topics are related to your search.
By clicking on a node (the floating boxes) you will be able to view articles described on that particular node.
Note: I didn’t have luck with 9 articles clipped in my clipboard, but did with 19. So there is a minimum number of articles that need to be added into your clipboard.
The documentation for HubMed explains their features in detail.
