David Rew Consultant General Surgeon

Driving a big citation

David A. Rew - JASGBI July 2010, No. 30

The Internet has transformed the search for information. Those surgeons of a certain age will recall the dreary hunt for papers and references on library shelves and in printed citation indices, and
the long wait for posted copies of prized documents from a far flung reference library while writing up a Masters Thesis.

No more! Just as Search Engines such as Google have made global access to public postings and documents on the Internet virtually instantaneous, so a number of competing systems, each with different characteristics, now provide search functions for academic material, including peer reviewed papers, books, papers in trade journals, historical material, and multimedia material.