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🚨greylitsearcher update🚨
Significant upgrade to greylitsearcher! Now supports advanced searching of Google AND provides a search report text file.
estech.shinyapps.io/greylitsearche…
Here's some details... 🧵
#medlibs #InformationRetrieval @SystematicSearching #EvidenceSynthesis
Significant upgrade to greylitsearcher! Now supports advanced searching of Google AND provides a search report text file.
estech.shinyapps.io/greylitsearche…
Here's some details... 🧵
#medlibs #InformationRetrieval @SystematicSearching #EvidenceSynthesis
You can now build complex Google site: searches the same way you can in Google Scholar...
And you can search across multiple sites simultaneously... (just be sure they support Google site: searching)
developers.google.com/search/docs/ad…
developers.google.com/search/docs/ad…
Check out our new paper on the need for better understanding of academic searching:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jr…
#InformationRetrieval #MedLibs #EvidenceSynthesis
A thread with our key points... (1/20)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jr…
#InformationRetrieval #MedLibs #EvidenceSynthesis
A thread with our key points... (1/20)
We agree with others that we now face an 'information crisis' (#infodemic). There is SO much published research we need to find and digest.
Doing this reliably requires systematic review approaches, but even then, it's hugely challenging to find all relevant research.
(2/20)
Doing this reliably requires systematic review approaches, but even then, it's hugely challenging to find all relevant research.
(2/20)
Academic searching/information retrieval is an art form, and there is no 'perfect' search strategy - it takes careful planning and requires substantial skill and training.
These searches are highly complex and must be used in fit-for-purpose bibliographic databases. (3/20)
These searches are highly complex and must be used in fit-for-purpose bibliographic databases. (3/20)
I've built an R package to scrape search results from up to 100 pages of hits from Google Scholar: github.com/nealhaddaway/G…
It's probably a bit buggy, but feedback greatly appreciated!
Here's a thread on how it works...
#AcademicTwitter #InformationRetrieval #MedLibs
It's probably a bit buggy, but feedback greatly appreciated!
Here's a thread on how it works...
#AcademicTwitter #InformationRetrieval #MedLibs
1) It generates a set of up to 100 URLs, each corresponding to a page of visible search results
2) It then downloads each of these pages of results as an HTML file
