Now you can blog any abstract in pubmed using free service provided by Hubmed.org. Apart from the full functionality of NCBI Pubmed, the hubmed allows you to write blog article to cite and remote comment on the abstract.

It’s perfect for an online journal club! How does it work? well it’s quite simple. When you write your blog article citing the pubmed abstract in Hubmed database you give a backtrack URI linking to the abstract’s pubmed ID. Your blog software will then ping the remote Hubmed server to let it know someone has written comment on that abastract. The remote Hubmed server will then attempt to fetch the comment, parse it and store it in its database. So lets assume ten people have written comments on a recently published hot paper and have given backtrack link to Hubmed, it will store excerpt of all remote comments in its database and comments will be shown as an extra reference tag for the abstract. This is a wonderful way of creating virtual journal club on the internet.

Some features of Hubmed are quoted bellow.

RSS feeds of literature queries - updated daily.
Drag the XML button from a page of search results into your newsreader:
NewzCrawler (Windows), NetNewsWire (OS X) or Amphetadesk (cross-platform).

Export checked abstracts in RIS format.
Unzip this import filter into Endnote’s Filters folder for direct import into Endnote.
Install the RIS Export plugin for direct import into ProCite, RefMan and older versions of Endnote.

HubMed bookmarklet - drag into your toolbar.

TrackBack-enabled remote comments.

Citation Matcher

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