Design and implementation of Metta, a metasearch engine for biomedical literature retrieval intended for systematic reviewers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals and groups who write systematic reviews and meta-analyses in evidence-based medicine regularly carry out literature searches across multiple search engines linked to different bibliographic databases, and thus have an urgent need for a suitable metasearch engine to save time spent on repeated searches and to remove duplicate publications from initial consideration. Unlike general users who generally carry out searches to find a few highly relevant (or highly recent) articles, systematic reviewers seek to obtain a comprehensive set of articles on a given topic, satisfying specific criteria. This creates special requirements and challenges for metasearch engine design and implementation.

Methods

We created a federated search tool that is connected to fiv

SUBMITTER: Smalheiser NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4375844 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature