Try searching PubMed from St B's using a search box that displays 400 characters or scrolls if you term is longer!!!

If you want to, you can now save the search box to your own machine so that you can use it without coming back to St B's.

We are getting a lot of purple here. 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.

In July 2007 St B's started using an expanded general palliative care search term basd on work done by CareSearch (link at the bottom of the page). More about this search term can be found here.

We are still (July 2007) providing results from our original search term but are not sure how long we will continue to do this. The best option is for visitors to set up their own searches and have the results delivered directly by email; it is not difficult.

St B's posts the results of weekly NCBI searches based on its general palliative care search term for "All of pubmed" and general medical journals and for a group of palliative care specific journals. These have been saved as web pages and will open in your browser.

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 also provides 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 as text files and use the "import" function on your bibliographic database manager to extract the references using an "EndNote refer" filter.

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.

Searches will accumulate for 6 months at which time those over 6 months will be deleted.

St B's is aware that its "regular" search updates are not as regular as they should be; they are happening every week (usually!!) but not on a by the clock basis. If you would like St B's to let you know when new material has been added, email us using the link at the foot of the page. We will also let you know when other significant changes are made or different material added. "Update please" in the subject line will be adequate and any other feedback appreciated.