Wednesday, 23rd December 2015

PubMed Commons Pilot Proves Successful

By Africa S. Hands

From PubMed Commons blog:

We are pleased to announce that PubMed Commons is here to stay!

PubMed Commons provides a forum for scientific discourse that is integrated with PubMed, a major database of citations to the biomedical literature.

More than 9,500 authors have joined PubMed Commons – and they have posted over 4,000 comments to more than 3,300 publications, mostly on recent publications.

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Africa S. Hands is an independent librarian with a focus on helping professionals understand and utilise social media and search engines through one-on-one tutorials and small group workshops. Africa tweets (@africahands) on resources of interest to information and higher education professionals.

Africa can be reached at [email protected]

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