Number 1: The hands-down winner for best Health Search Engine of 2008 is Mednar. It offers access to an array of databases that are not mined by other health search engines and features a dependable email alert service that enables users to keep up on the lates publications on the medical topics of their choice.
Number 2: GoPubMed has actually been around a few years, but made this list because it is such a superb tool. It is a useful complement to PubMed proper and also features a mediated service that enables users to send emails to researchers and authors.
Number 3: WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway featuring English language materials produced by scientists throughout the world.
Number 4: Health Sciences Online is a multi-institutional, international effort to put as much valuable information onto the Web as possible and is more about disseminating information about best practices than facilitating basic and clinical research.
Number 5: ScanGrants is a useful, free tool for those in the health sciences looking for grants and scholarships in their fields. Researchers depend on money for everything from lab equipment to clerical help and grants are their lifelines to such funding.
Number 6: SearchMedica is a useful midway point between the consumer level MedlinePlus and the sometimes overpowering authoritativeness of PubMed. It features links to a wide variety of trade publications in medicine, has it's own search tips newsletter and has a number of suggested searches.
Number 7: Vadlo is brought to you by two biology scientists who wish to make it easier to locate biology research related information on the web. Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences and allows users to search within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software. It makes the list because it does what no other medical search engine seems to do. It makes available useful PowerPoint presentations that might otherwise be relegated to wasteful, indeed heartbreaking obscurity. It also has some great cartoons!
Number 8: NextBio allows you to search, compare your data with other public studies and then collaborate and securely share your data. NextBio's mission is to make the world's life sciences information universally accessible and their goal is to empower researchers and clinicians to make new discoveries in science, find new and better cures to diseases, and work more collaboratively.
Number 9: LalisioLiterature makes the list because it is an attractive gateway to open access literature, and with the passage of mandatory open access legislation worldwide, it will more and more affect all our lives for the better and render more and more valuable medical literature searchable.
Number 10: Yottalook This is a top-drawer image search engine and is a model of search engine design in general. You can search for medical images by type of imaging technology used (e.g., CT, MRI) and Publication Date, First Author, Last Author, Journal and so on.
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