I just added a search widget for the National Library of Medicine to the side of the page. It was created by Guus van den Brekel based on some whining I posted here and then a request I made for him to modify one of his widgets from his NLM Toolbars blog.
As background you might want to know that the National Library of Medicine has over 100 databases. I think that's alot for one organization but maybe not. They have so many database that some of them have retired.
You'll be happy to know, however, that the NLM has recognized that this could be a bit overwhelming and they have created the NLM gateway. This is a search interface that will look at 16 of their most popular databases all at once and then give you the results from each database. They even break down the results into "Bibliographic Resources" which apparently means it's used more for research purposes; "Consumer Health Resources" which is where most of us will want to go first; and "Other Information Resources".
To check it out just type in what you are searching for (e.g. "acne") and click on the search button. Thanks Guus!
[NOTE: I removed the whining post because it was irrelevant and made me look silly after Guus created another widget so quickly. Some of the comments refer to the other post.]
My favorite line from The Art of Explanation
4 months ago
3 comments:
Please try the widget from Netvibes at:
http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/229971/nlm-search-solutions
Netvibes is my favourite over Widgetbox. I will try and find out why the error occurs in IE from widgetbox.
To add the searchbox into a Blogger HTML Page element just copy and paste html code from < form ... /form > from the source code. If you need more info just ask. I will publish this on the blog. kind regards, digicmb
http://digicmb.blogspot.com
Ann, i can make you a special NLM Gateway Search box/widget or a selection if want. And we can try and make it as simple as YOU want. Just let me know ;-)
Please try some other widgets at:
http://eco.netvibes.com/users/9148
Ann, have a look at this: http://www.rug.nl/bibliotheek/locaties/bibcmb/informatie/toolbar/nlmgatewayUWA.html
To add the box to the html Page element:
-in IE, click page; View source and copy everything between the "form" tags, including the form tags itself.
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