Monday, May 28, 2007

GALEN Toolbars 2.0

1. Today's toolbar links directly to PubMed@UCSF. How about also providing UCSF links for the Google Scholar searches? And providing ways for users to tag and store their search results, using their own terminology, for easy retrieval at any time? While they're at it, they could also import search results into EndNote or RefWorks.

2. Could the GALEN Toolbar also be accessible from within the UCSF 2011 Facebook group?

3. How about building a new toolbar to facilitate and manage searches in Relemed, which arranges PubMed results by relevancy?

Toolbars facilitate knowledge gathering. But new knowledge creation requires a process synthesis and refinement. This is the province of blogs and wikis.