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Accessing Biomedical Literature in the Current Information Landscape

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Biomedical Literature Mining

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1159))

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Biomedical and life sciences literature is unique because of its exponentially increasing volume and interdisciplinary nature. Biomedical literature access is essential for several types of users including biomedical researchers, clinicians, database curators, and bibliometricians. In the past few decades, several online search tools and literature archives, generic as well as biomedicine specific, have been developed. We present this chapter in the light of three consecutive steps of literature access: searching for citations, retrieving full text, and viewing the article. The first section presents the current state of practice of biomedical literature access, including an analysis of the search tools most frequently used by the users, including PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, and Embase, and a study on biomedical literature archives such as PubMed Central. The next section describes current research and the state-of-the-art systems motivated by the challenges a user faces during query formulation and interpretation of search results. The research solutions are classified into five key areas related to text and data mining, text similarity search, semantic search, query support, relevance ranking, and clustering results. Finally, the last section describes some predicted future trends for improving biomedical literature access, such as searching and reading articles on portable devices, and adoption of the open access policy.

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This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine.

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  1. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, NIH, Blg 38 A, Rm 1003B, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA

    Ritu Khare

  2. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, NIH, Blg 38 A, Rm 1003E, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA

    Robert Leaman

  3. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, NIH, Blg 38 A, Rm 1003A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA

    Zhiyong Lu

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Khare, R., Leaman, R., Lu, Z. (2014). Accessing Biomedical Literature in the Current Information Landscape. In: Kumar, V., Tipney, H. (eds) Biomedical Literature Mining. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1159. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0709-0_2

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