Search Engines use for Effective Literature Search in Biomedical Research

摘要

Introduction: Searching is hampered by the wide variations in terminology that may be common usage at any given time, which inhibit effective searching by both computers and people.Not enough knowledge and skills concerning literature search makes budding researcher incapacitate.Objectives: This article discusses how to compare biomedical search engines and also covers the strengths and limitations of a particular search engine/database while searching for biomedical literature.Methods:This research was a cross-sectional study by which five popular search engines in medical sciences were evaluated. PubMed, the basic search engine was used to search literature related to other search engines.Important and widely used web of search- engines; were Google, Google scholar, PubMed and GoPubmed. This article also focus on Quertle and KNALIJ, specifically developed to run easier and more effective searches within PubMed.Results: Most widely practiced search engine is PubMed and Google scholar; however least was Knalij. Though the features and special features of search engines are very helpful in precise and conceptual search of biomedical literature. Every search engine has its own limitations.Moreover, the review provides a detailed summary for the recent advances in the field of biomedical literature search.Conclusion:This review can directly serve both non-experts and expert users when they wish to find systems other than PubMed. Moreover, the review provides a detailed summary for the recent advances in the field of biomedical literature search. This is particularly useful for existing researcher for effective literature search.