Free replacement for Acubrief

[Guest guest]

Register at

 

http://biomail.sourceforge.net/biomail/

 

for the following free service to replace Acubriefs. You can receive

information about acupuncture, herbs, qigong, etc.

 

BioMail is a small web-based application for medical researchers, biologists,

and anyone who wants to know the latest information about a disease or a

biological phenomenon. It is written to automate searching for recent scientific

papers in the PubMed Medline database. BioMail is free and will stay free.

What does BioMail do?

Periodically BioMail does a user-customized Medline search and sends all

matching articles recently added to Medline to the users' e-mail address.

HTML-formatted e-mails generated by BioMail can be used to view selected

references in

medline format (compatible with most reference manager programs).

Why is BioMail helpful?

If you use Medline, it may be hard to remember when you did your last search.

Often you must scan titles you have already seen to be certain you didn't

miss an important reference. BioMail will perform routine searches for you. This

program alerts users to all new papers in their fields automatically. It also

helps the user to 'refine' search patterns once and for all. There is no need

to wonder: 'What was that great search pattern I used last Saturday?'. All

patterns are safe in the database and can be accessed, tuned, or deleted any

time.

It is also useful for countries where access to the Internet is not yet

widely available. If a person has a permanent e-mail address, but only sporadic

www

access, she/he only needs to fill out a BioMail form once and then will

receive new references from Medline continually.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

The Biomail reference notification

http://biomail.sourceforge.net/biomail/ is great and we have been using

it for years to get up-to-date references from the PubMed Medline

database. You can also set up a free account at PubMed at

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi and click on the " MY NCBI "

to set up search strategies. These will give you only references in

PubMed Medline, while Acubriefs http://www.acubriefs.com/ also includes

references from non-indexed journals such as The Journal of Chinese

Medicine, Medical Acupuncture, etc., the Cochrane Library, internet

sources, and our own source of references from China, with English

abstracts.

Peggy Albers

peggy