TOP 5 SEARCH TRENDS IN MEDICINE, 2005

According to Dean Giustini [Biomedical Branch Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada] in his blog, UBC Google Scholar Blog, the top five search trends in medicine for 2005 were:

1. Blogging in medicine: online journaling, blogsearch, user-generated content
2. Open access: repository search, Google Scholar (books), Scirus, wiki-med
3. Daily alerting: pushed content, RSS feeds, podcasts, del.icio.us
4. Digital multimedia: audio, podcasting, videocasting
5. Online medical education: on the go, handhelds, telehealth

How many of these are you doing?

URLs:
UBC Google Scholar Blog: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/
Top 5: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/archives/021517.html