Internet Resources in the Health Sciences I've found all this information -  Now what shall I do with it?

Using Your Bookmarks

Take advantage of your browser's bookmark file and group your links by topic.

Edit out a section of your bookmark file ("bookmark.htm" in Netscape) and save it as an html file with a new name.  Be sure to keep a backup copy of your original bookmark file. 

Edit and organize your bookmarks as a Web page.

Give your edited bookmarks a title and put them on your Web server for others to use. 

You can add a more scholarly look to your bookmark page by adding some organization. 

Annotate your Web page (yes, in case you hadn't noticed, you now have a Web page!)

You can begin to show some "value added" if you include annotations.

The annotated page doesn't have to be lengthly or comprehensive. 

Do I really have a Web page?

Oh yes!  Two of our library's most frequently accessed pages,

Watch out for those search engines!  Any file you save on your Web server may be picked up by one or more search engines or Web directories.  I was saving some bookmarks on Material Safety Data Sheets in my account on our server and discovered that the file was getting a lot of hits and was linked from at least one other site!  I quickly made cosmetic changes and moved the file to our library's account as a "real" Web page.
http://www4.umdnj.edu/camlbweb/msds.html

Now that you have a Web page you will want to keep it up-to-date.

Every once in awhile you want to check your links to make sure they are still good.  If your file is on your web server, you can use a "link checker" to automatically test your page. 

Want more information?

For a more in depth discussion of using your bookmarks, check Making a Webpage from your Reference Desk Bookmarks, by Steve Garwood of the Camden County Library.

PubMed Searches

PubMed searches can be bookmarked and included in a file that you save on your Web server. 

Use one or more in a Web page

You can include one or more PubMed searches on a Web page. 

Answer one of those "give me everything" questions

Rather than printing reams of paper when someone asks for everything on a topic or by specific authors, you can do a Web page that includes one or more PubMed searches.

You can save a search strategy to rerun on a regular basis. To do this:

1. You must construct your search strategy and click on Search.
2. Click on the Details button.
3. Click on URL.
4. Bookmark the page.  Note: When you save the URL it is saved with the name "PubMed medline query."  Choose your bookmarks' edit function to rename it.

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Updated June 20, 2007
BJ Swartz
swartz@umdnj.edu

http://www4.umdnj.edu/~swartz/healthinfo/whattodo.html