# eTBlast Interface to Bibus

This module is included into Bibus for versions after 1.1.0. Download it @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibus-biblio/. Don’t forget to visit eTBLAST web page, with new cool features like find an expert in your field of interest, or find a journal for your manuscript.

eTBlast Interface to Bibus

1.What is eTBlast?

2. How can eTBlast improve my bibliographic research work?

3. What is the point of having eTBlast interface with a reference management software like Bibus?

4. What does the interface looks like?

5. Who to cite when using eTBlast?

6. Who to contact if I have a question or discover a bug using eTBlast in Bibus?

## 1. What is eTBlast?

eTBLAST is a unique search engine for searching biomedical literature very different from PubMed. While PubMed searches for "keywords", eTBlast engine lets you input an entire paragraph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are similar to it. Some new features added to eTBlast allow you to find experts in the area described by your input text, or suggest which journal are good target based on the most similar articles found by eTBlast

## 2. How can eTBlast improve my bibliographic research work?

When most people use PubMed to search MEDLINE they pick one or two keywords to describe their topic, then browse through a long list of results. When they find a paper that looks interesting they click on its "Related Articles", in hopes of finding more papers like that one. If they find another relevant paper, they explore it's related articles--and so on. This process of culling long lists of documents by hand makes literature searching tedious and time consuming. We make it easier for you by providing better results the first time, and then allowing you to automatically combine the papers you care about for a second round. Our "Iterate" feature allows you to checkmark the abstracts you found interesting in the first round and combine them all to create a new query. It's like rolling several Related Articles lists into one.

## 3. What is the point of having eTBlast interfaced with a reference management software like Bibus?

First it makes Bibus unique. Second, if you think about the fact that each paper or thesis you write might contain between 20 to 200 references (or more), a traditional search will force you to look for each reference using medline search, enter keywords, and then add the reference to your database. Therefore, you have to repeat the same tedious process a hundred times or so. The gain with eTBlast is that due to eTBlast concept; with one search (based on the content of your abstract for example), eTBlast returns a list of similar papers containing sost of the papers related to yours. Therefore, with a single search you will load a majority of the references you will need.

## 4. What does the interface look like?

Simple. Copy your text from any text based software (word, OpenOffice writer, word perfect, notepad…). Launch Bibus and make sure you are connected to the web. Go to Search>eTBlast on Medline and paste your text in the text area. Click on Search. After 1 or 2 min (depending on the length of your query) the results will be loaded in bibus. Then you can browse the references and drag the one(s) you want to the “References” key for future insertion in your document (MS Word or Writer)

The number of records returns the 100 best references based on a similarity score used by eTBlast, you can decrease this value or increase it to 400 (eTBlast server default). You can receive the results to your email address provided you would enter a valid email in the email text area (note that Bibus doesn’t check the validity of your email).

## 5. Who to cite when using eTBlast?

Publications are under process. Please come back soon to check out the publications

## 6. Who to contact if I have a question or discover a bug using eTBlast in Bibus?

First, you can go on eTBlast website and try your search there. You can also try an eTBlast search in Bibus using another text just to make sure that your query is not malformed. If the problem still persists, send an email to m.errami@gmail.com.