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Just ask them if they would buy their medical texts and supplies at Wal-Mart (Or the UK equivalent.)   I bet that they don't do all of their shopping at just one store.  Google is a great source; but, when you put it in a perspective that the audience can understand, most of the folks realize that it's not always the best source. 
 
Rita Vine has a good piece on why Google won't effectively find MEDLINE articles even though they are included in the Google database http://www.workingfaster.com/sitelines/archives/2004_05.html#000205
 
 
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J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library
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From: Evidence based practice to librarianship and information science [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Luzviminda Sinha
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 1:38 PM
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Subject: Re: Google better than MEDLINE?!

Tanya, just last month, I got invited to attend the residents' journal club.  The lecturer said something like start with google first, then go to medline.  I was shocked.  At the end of the lecture I had to say that it was not needed to go to google first to go to medline.  I pointed them to the pubmed that has Ohiolink linkages.  I thought it was an isolated case but your case may prove that there are so many out there who are just into google or sold that google will do anything for them. - Luz 

>>> "Feddern, Tanya" <[log in to unmask]> 9/8/2004 2:30:11 PM >>>
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Hello, everyone.  I'd like your thoughts on this.  I learned that supposedly a Missouri occupational therapy professor, who's also an author and journal editor, advocated using Google and Dogpile (instead of MEDLINE) to find article citations for evidence-based practice.  Obviously, she doesn't know about the powerful features of specialized literature databases such as the PubMed or Ovid software for searching MEDLINE.  If she did, she wouldn't be using Google to find evidence for patient care (nor suggesting this in an invited lecture).  Unfortunately, this idea is probably being picked up by others.

Have any of you heard of other respected faculty telling students and healthcare professionals to use Google instead of MEDLINE?  How did you address that?  Please feel free to forward this.  I will summarize to the list(s). 

Take care,

Tanya

Tanya Feddern, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L
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