Displaying search results as web pages (html) has limited utility in that result sets can be viewed but need further manipulation to allow them to be imported into a bibliographic database manager. St B's is now (from 13-2-07) providing results of "All of Pubmed" search results in "EndNote refer" format ("refer") to facilitate importing into a bibliographic database manager. "All of Pubmed" searches use the general palliative care search term and are updated weekly. These are text files. Save them and use the "import" function on your bibliographic database manager to extract the references.

Currently, (February, 2007) St B's is using EndNote 4 and Bibus reference managers. Bibus is an open source product available at no cost from "SourceForge"; it can be linked to either "Word" or "Open Office", an open source office software suite. St B's is using the Windows version of Bibus but versions are also available for Linux and MacOSX, as is "Open Office". Our testing of Bibus has not been extensive but we can report that it appears to be stable and will import the reference lists provided by St B's. (If it does not please let us know.)

St B's has also played with "JabRef" and although we have had difficulty importing "Medline" result files the "refer" format files import into JabRef without difficulty. JabRef is also "Open Source" and can be downloaded using the link above; it also runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

St B's is no longer able to provide the weekly updates we have set out to do. If you have been using these updates this is probably a good time to set up your own with NCBI. Some assistance with this can be found here.