Use of free web ressources to locate medical documents: Anne Parrical CHUV Lausanne

EAHIL 2006 Cluj

Request 1 chapter in a recent book H Lehmann and P Zweifel Insurance: theoretical analysis and policy Chapter « choice of managed care » MIT Press 2005

Tool : www.google.com Query MIT PRESS

Solution : as book is not yet published… E mail to author (found with google) who accepts being contacted by requester

Request 2 Pages missing in « out of print » french book in the library RAOUL, Elisabeth Manuel pratique de préparation sophrologique à l’accouchement Paris Maloine, 1990 (épuisé)

Tool: www.abes.fr French Bibliographic Agency for Universities Query: by title of the book Manuel pratique de préparation sophrologique

Solution: book was sent on ILL from France Missing pages photocopied and binded – book returned

Request 3 Reference false (1902) provided as below: CASTERET Extraction…in Toulouse Medical 1900 vol 2 sup 4

Query: by title and author Tool: Index catalogue of the surgeon’s general office http://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/ Query: by title and author

Solution 1: article was properly identified Ready to be ordered after identifying a library with www.abes.fr

Request followed: article was located Tool: BIUM Paris http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/medecine/debut.htm

Received and sent to doctor Solution 2: ordered in Paris BIUM bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine Received and sent to doctor

Request 4 A user is asking the following question : definition of « guideline »

Tool: wikipedia www.wikipedia.com

Solution

Request 5 Vanished reference : appearing in pubmed in 2003 not in 2006 provided as shows next: HOLDOWAY A Palliation in cancer of the oesophagus What passes down a oesophageal stent?

Tool: google scholar http://scholar.google.com/

Request 6 Request for a latin botanic ancient book Caroli LINNAEI (LINNE) « Species plantarum » 1753

Tool: Gallica : 90.000 digitalised books Bibliotheque Nationale de France http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Request 7 Reference in a « special » serial: WOOD-Two shillings…. In M Request 7 Reference in a « special » serial: WOOD-Two shillings….In M.J. Australas. 1903 vol 8 p477-

Tools: -locator -index catalogue of the surgeon’s general office http://locatorplus.gov/ http://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov/

www. google. com www. wikipedia. com/ www. abes. fr www. gallica www.google.com www.wikipedia.com/ www.abes.fr www.gallica.fr/ locatorplus.gov indexcat.nlm.nih.gov scholar.google.com books.google.com

And also…..

http://www.scielo.org/

http://catalogue.bl.uk/

And others….

Still looking for…. the article cited by the following quotation… Still looking for….the article cited by the following quotation…. BMJ 1865? http://www.theathlete.org/doping-in-sport.htm

« In ancient Rome gladiators drank herbal infusion to strengthen them before chariots races…The first documented report in the medical literature was published in 1865 in BMJ citing expulsion of a swimmer from an Amsterdam canal race for taking an unnamed performance enhancing drug 2 »

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