Useful versus Not Useful Resources

The electronic index I used was PubMed, which I found to be even bigger than I remembered when I have tried to navigate it in the past via Google Scholar. My PubMed search, which utilized MeSH terms and activated limits, provided ample citations. However, the citations would all need to have their abstracts read and noted to develop a more thorough search.

The guideline index I used, National Guideline Clearinghouse, was interesting but not very helpful. As a web search engine, National Guideline Clearinghouse, was not as bountiful when I attempted to use it as I approached the problem of yeast infections and treatment options. I was able to consider this site to improve how I should state my problem. I wish this site was more user friendly via offering an index menu listing the guideline summaries prior to throwing an individual in front of so many guideline summaries. I needed to scroll down and read pages of the index before I found “American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.” However, I found that many useful topics which were interesting could be of high quality of reading material at another time.

Context relevant information retrieval could be useful to incorporate better organized, faster and more efficient search methods. I am sure the technology is around the corner to make this retrieval more user friendly, i.e. similar to the updates made to improve PubMed. Google would be even a bigger Cyber Giant if they developed a simple site for context relevant information retrieval that presented easy access to legitimate articles for research by professionals and the public.
Google Scholar is different from Google. These two similar web search engines work in the same manner and have made information so much more tangible. However, I wonder how credible these sources may be. I am concerned by how Google and Google Scholar rate and list their articles. I appreciate how Google and Google Scholar highlight the items I have opened up when I am performing a broad review of articles. I discovered that Google will bring me to sites that do not charge for each journal to which I am given access. Thus, I actually prefer Google over Google Scholar due to it being a better place to start with my search. It is good for me to brainstorm and contemplate how I should word a search and what MeSH terms I should incorporate. I think Google Scholar is still very limiting, and I do not want to have to pay for each new journal I come across or belong to dozens of different sites in order to reap the benefit of using this method as my primary research strategy portal.