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Show HN: MedicLib - A better medical litterature search engine

4 points by traxtech ↗ HN
MedicLib ( http://www.mediclib.com ) is medical literature search engine that rank and categorize articles from Pubmed/Medline ( http://www.mediclib.com/about ). The goal is to be helpful to physicians by filtering noise and boosting landmark papers in the results (still in progress).

I plan to add fuzzy search, enhanced filters and also a new datasource, the FDA drugs descriptions.

Any comment, question, or suggestion is welcome.

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jcr
I'm impressed. Nicely done.

One suggestion would be to add dates.

traxtech
Release date and journal will soon be added in the results view under the authors.
josephpmay
Do you have any plans to expand this to all scientific literature, not just medicine? A useful scientific literature search engine is greatly needed. (Good job on Mediclib, though)
traxtech
I have no plans to expand to all scientific literature, unless I find a good source of structured data to work on. If there is a Pubmed equivalent for other scientific fields, please drop me a link :)
josephpmay
There isn't a good public database of scientific literature; that's part of the problem.