(via Whitney Townsend–University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)<\/p>\n
Registration is still open for the free webinar “”MEDLINE search retrieval issues: A longitudinal query analysis of five vendor platforms”. It will take place on Thursday, January 12, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CDT<\/strong>. This webinar is an “Author Talk” in the University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library’s Library Talks<\/em> series. Please see below for more information, including the link to registration.<\/p>\n While the Medline dataset is primarily accessed through the PubMed interface, search professionals can choose to use any one of a variety of vendor-provided platforms to build their Medline searches. Platform tools and features may vary, but if we don’t do anything fancy, the results should be about the same across these platforms, right? And if they’re not, how do you test this question systematically?<\/p>\n Tyler Nix<\/a> and\u00a0Dr. Sean Burns<\/a>\u00a0join us to discuss how they tackled these questions across five different Medline platforms, and provide a behind-the-scenes look at the methodology and results from their 2021 paper, available here<\/a>. We will also discuss what these findings mean for expert searchers, and which questions may remain regarding search consistency across Medline platforms (I’m looking at you, PubMed proximity searching<\/a>!)<\/p>\n