Enabling exploratory search in UK PubMed Central: Enhancing information retrieval for the UK´s biomedical and health research community

Author

Ong, Emest

Author_Institution

Sci., Technol. & Med. (STM), British Libr., London, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 June 2011

Firstpage

354

Lastpage

359

Abstract

Launched in 2007, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) was originally released as a “mirror” of the US PubMed Central repository. The feedback from our users and our experience of running the service prompted the organisations comprising UK´s principal funders of biomedical and health research to commission a new phase of development with aspirations to build the premier resource for biomedical and health research. This paper summarises the evolution of UKPMC and discusses the exploratory search facilities in the new web interface.

Keywords

Internet; health care; human computer interaction; information resources; information retrieval; medical computing; medical information systems; UK PubMed Central; UK biomedical research community; UK health research community; UKPMC; US PubMed Central repository; Web interface; exploratory search; information retrieval; Biology; Biomedical monitoring; Databases; Monitoring; Switches; Tumors; biomedical and health research; digital repository; exploratory search; human computer interaction; information retrieval; resource discovery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Society (i-Society), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-148-9

Type

conf

Filename

5978469