This
module is included into Bibus for versions after 1.1.0. Download it @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibus-biblio/.
Don’t forget to visit eTBLAST
web page, with new cool features like find an expert in your field of interest,
or find a journal for your manuscript.
2. How can
eTBlast improve my bibliographic research work?
3. What is
the point of having eTBlast interface with a reference management software like
Bibus?
4. What does
the interface looks like?
5. Who to
cite when using eTBlast?
6. Who to
contact if I have a question or discover a bug using eTBlast in Bibus?
eTBLAST
is a unique search engine for searching biomedical literature very different
from PubMed. While PubMed searches for "keywords", eTBlast engine
lets you input an entire paragraph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that
are similar to it. Some new features added to eTBlast allow you to find
experts in the area described by your input text, or suggest which journal are
good target based on the most similar articles found by eTBlast
When most people use PubMed to search MEDLINE they pick one
or two keywords to describe their topic, then browse through a long list of
results. When they find a paper that looks interesting they click on its
"Related Articles", in hopes of finding more papers like that one. If
they find another relevant paper, they explore it's related articles--and so
on. This process of culling long lists of documents by hand makes literature
searching tedious and time consuming. We make it easier for you by providing
better results the first time, and then allowing you to automatically combine
the papers you care about for a second round. Our "Iterate" feature
allows you to checkmark the abstracts you found interesting in the first round
and combine them all to create a new query. It's like rolling several Related
Articles lists into one.
First it makes Bibus unique. Second, if
you think about the fact that each paper or thesis you write might contain
between 20 to 200 references (or more), a traditional search will force you to
look for each reference using medline search, enter keywords, and then add the
reference to your database. Therefore, you have to repeat the same tedious
process a hundred times or so. The gain with eTBlast is that due to eTBlast
concept; with one search (based on the content of your abstract for example),
eTBlast returns a list of similar papers containing sost of the papers related
to yours. Therefore, with a single search you will load a majority of the
references you will need.
Simple. Copy your text from any text
based software (word, OpenOffice writer, word perfect, notepad…). Launch Bibus
and make sure you are connected to the web. Go to Search>eTBlast on Medline
and paste your text in the text area. Click on Search. After 1 or 2 min
(depending on the length of your query) the results will be loaded in bibus.
Then you can browse the references and drag the one(s) you want to the
“References” key for future insertion in your document (MS Word or Writer)
The number of records returns the 100
best references based on a similarity score used by eTBlast, you can decrease
this value or increase it to 400 (eTBlast server default). You can receive the
results to your email address provided you would enter a valid email in the
email text area (note that Bibus doesn’t check the validity of your email).
Publications are under process. Please come
back soon to check out the publications
First, you can go on eTBlast website
and try your search there. You can also try an eTBlast search in Bibus using
another text just to make sure that your query is not malformed. If the problem
still persists, send an email to m.errami@gmail.com.