Free Webinar: [Author Talk] MEDLINE search retrieval issues: A longitudinal query analysis of five vendor platforms [Jan 12]
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?
Tyler Nix and Dr. Sean Burns join 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. 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!)
Participants are welcome (but not required) to read the paper before the session, and can submit questions for the presenters via Qualtrics Survey. Question submission will be open through Monday, January 9 2023. Any questions not addressed by the presenters during the session will be made available for crowdsourced replies by the webinar participants. Question submission is anonymous.
This FREE webinar will be held Thursday, January 12, 1-2:00pm EST. A recording will be available after the event. To find out more and get the Zoom link, please visit: https://guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks/MedlinePlatforms