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I thought people might find the article below quite useful.  Providing Doctors With High-Quality Information: An Updated Evaluation of Web-Based Point-of-Care Information Summaries Koren Hyogene Kwag, Marien González-Lorenzo, Rita Banzi, Stefanos Bonovas, Lorenzo Moja J Med Internet Res 2016 (Jan 19); 18(1):e15 HTML (open access):  http://www.jmir.org/2016/1/e15/ PDF (members only):  http://www.jmir.org/2016/1/e15/PDF    Background: The complexity of modern practice requires health professionals to be active information-seekers. Objective: Our aim was to review the quality and progress of point-of-care information summaries—Web-based medical compendia that are specifically designed to deliver pre-digested, rapidly accessible, comprehensive, and periodically updated information to health care providers. We aimed to evaluate product claims of being evidence-based. Methods: We updated our previous evaluations by searching Medline, Google, librarian ...

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Someone might find this Guardian article about  searching Google rather helpful:   http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/15/how-to-use-search-like-a-pro-10-tips-and-tricks-for-google-and-beyond

The National Student Survey is now open! Calling all @UCL final year undergrads: take 10 mins to have your say at  www.thestudentsurvey.com

Don’t be bamboozled by  acronyms  at work, download this free NHS Acronym Buster app  from iTunes  to your iPhone/iPad or  from Google Play  to your android phone or tablet. It contains more than 700 commonly used NHS acronym and abbreviations. Just search ‘NHS Acronym’ in the iTunes app or Google Play stores.

Follow  this link http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1363.html for a  report which  presents the findings of a bibliometric analysis of biomedical and health research in England for the period 2004–2013.

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