Finding and Sharing Information: New Resources

Yesterday at our national conference we relaunched the DrugScope website. It has a brighter look and feel, a more intuitive interface, updated content and new features, including an online bookshop (in association with Amazon), online polls, an interactive quiz and a blog directory. The complete list of new features is available on the what's new page, and our press release about the conference and relaunch is here.

The website relaunch has given us the opportunity to consolidate and develope our information services. Key features include:

DrugScope Filter

As announced in May’s Members’ Briefing, this gadget enables you to search over twenty of the top UK sites at the same time. Great for initial searches to see what’s ‘out there’ on a topic. Available here.

New ways to search DrugData

Responding to your requests, we’ve added new features to DrugData. You can now search by Document Number (handy for looking up references from our reading lists or notes you’ve made earlier). What’s more, our thesaurus terms can be searched through the subject box or the new “thesaurus terms” field, which gives more specific results.

And when you’ve found a keyword term you like, you can use it as a tag, clicking on it to find everything else tagged with that term.

New-look Helpfinder

Our opt-in directory of UK treatment services has been coloured to suit our new-look website and can still be searched online here. If your service isn’t listed, contact info@drugscope.org.uk or download a form from the website.

Online Bookmarks

We’re collating more and more online references on Connotea. Add them to your own Connotea page, or download them into your reference management software (BibTex, Endnote and XML and RSS are all supported).

… And all the basics

Whether it’s keeping up to date – http://drugscope.blogspot.com/ – or answering a specific query – info@drugscope.org.uk – DrugScope aims to support your professional practice with information.

The information in this blog article, complete with screenshots, is available as a pdf download: print double-sided and fold in half or print single sided

Anne Welsh
Information Officer