MEDPILOT 3.0, new version of the online medical library

The German National Library of Medicine has launched a version 3.0 of its MEDPILOT. The new site went online February 1 with its most user-friendly search functions to-date, making medical literature easier to find and order.

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The new MEDPILOT is designed to provide doctors, scientists, students and researchers an integrated ordering facility where they can access more than 25 million medical information documents.

Operated by the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED), the revised portal with its state-of-the-art technology is conceived to enable users to receive faster and more accurate results through a more modern search engine technology. Based on semantic and computational principles, the technology developed in cooperation with the company Acerbis, optimizes the quality and ranking of search results.

Specially designed for multiple languages

Especially important to international users, the MEDPILOT search function is accepting of different word forms, allowing results to include hits in other languages without the user doing anything extra. This allows for the easy sorting and refining of results just by clicking on keywords that are related.

ZB MED is Germany's central specialist library of medicine, health, nutrition, the environment and agriculture. Funded by the federal government and the federal states, it is a leading independent, nonpartisan, public institution.

In nearly 40 years of its existence it has grown to become Europe's largest library for medicine, health, nutrition, environment and agriculture. In addition to its classical literature supply tasks, the ZB MED is engaged in various projects for development, indexing, dissemination and publication of electronic literature, primary data and research findings. The ZB MED is a member of the Leibniz Association.

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