Advancing PubMed? A comparison of third-party PubMed/Medline tools

摘要: Purpose Systematic reviews of biomedical literature are used to inform patient treatment. Yet the acquisition relevant is proving increasingly challenging due large volume information that needs be searched, filtered and collocated. There a need improve efficiency searches. PubMed remains primary resource for literature, as makes Medline data Entrez Programming utilities freely available, any developer can produce alternative tools search database. The authors question if still provides superior interface systematic searches or innovativeness third-party provide alternatives worth considering. paper aims discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach In all, 76 build on content were identified in published studies known authors. Only provided free access broad designed specifically enhance included, reducing set 16 tools. functionality each tool within scenario was compared across 11 aspects. A study control. Findings The limited rather than advanced sorting, filtering, export required search. reproducibility sources reduced. shows provider searching, identifying, exporting reviews. Originality/value The work contributes discussion how librarians help researchers navigate reviews.