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ndocist

Terrifiant, ce qui se passe aux #USA.. attention à vos recherches sur #PubMed... peu fiables ? | Rédaction Médicale et Scientifique
Quelle fiabilité de PubMed ? Les algorithmes changent-ils ?
Il semblerait que oui après des perturbations de service
redactionmedicale.fr/2025/03/t

Rédaction Médicale et Scientifique · Terrifiant, ce qui se passe aux USA.. attention à vos recherches sur PubMed... peu fiables ? | Rédaction Médicale et ScientifiqueIl est trop tôt pour se rendre compte de la situation américaine et de ses impacts internationaux sur la santé et l'information. Je n'arrive pas à suivre car il y a trop d'informations. Je choisis deux thèmes. Quelle fiabilité de PubMed ? Les algorithmes changent-ils ? Cette base de données…
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Mirjam #anderhalvemetergraag

Ik dronk al geen cola, maar heb nu eerst maar eens de New York Times en Netflix opgezegd. Afkomen van de techreuzen wordt een zaak van de lange adem. #Boycott Ik ga er maar vanuit dat alle kleine beetjes helpen en ik zet het er ook bij als reden voor mijn afzegging. Op zoek naar een alternatief voor #GoogleScholar en #pubmed kwam ik hierop uit: europepmc.org/ Iemand ervaring mee? Ik doe vooral veel wetenschappelijke searches in de biologie en biomedische hoek, maar ook klimaat. #FCKTRMP

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EpicBear

#bioRxiv has been down for 2 days for maintenance. This reliance on centralized repositories with no ability to mirror their site during maintenance is concerning. With recent talk of needing to decentralize #Pubmed, I think it's time we consider preprint servers as well. Solutions? Funding? How do we keep it neutral, away from the grubby hands of capitalism and governments gone wrong?

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Omega_Scribet

'Storing PubMed leidt tot onrust'

"vrees dat de site was verwijderd door de Trump-regering"

"Dat bleek niet het geval. Niettemin zegt de Nederlandse software-expert Bert Hubert in Nature dat er ‘een heel serieus onderzoek’ zou moeten komen naar hoe dit heeft kunnen gebeuren en waarom het twee dagen heeft geduurd om het probleem te verhelpen, ‘want dit is wereldwijd kritieke infrastructuur’."

"PubMed-storingen zouden bovendien best vaker kunnen voorkomen als NCBI-medewerkers met de juiste expertise om de service te onderhouden hun baan verliezen als onderdeel van de wijdverbreide robuuste reductie in het aantal ambtenaren bij federale overheidsinstanties.

Er is een back-up, die heet Europe PMC en is onderdeel van het European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, gevestigd in Hinxton, VK. Dat beschikt over een kopie van de gehele PubMed-database."

medischcontact.nl/actueel/laat

#gezondheid #zorg #onderzoek #science #PubMed #NCBI #EuropePMC

@bert_hubert

www.medischcontact.nlStoring PubMed leidt tot onrustEen tijdelijke storing van PubMed leidde in het weekend van 1 maart tot onrust onder artsen en biomedische wetenschappers. Omdat de database wordt onderhouden door het Amerikaanse National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), onderdeel van National Institutes of Health (NIH), rees bij sommigen even de vrees dat de site was verwijderd door de Trump-regering.
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petersuber

Update. "‘Omg, did #PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s future"
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

"The NIH told Nature in an e-mail that, on 1 March 'some of NIH public-web services experienced service disruptions' but all services were restored on 2 March. 'NIH is committed to resilient and open access to PubMed and other NIH web services,' the team wrote. But [Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious-diseases physician] says any disruption — even if temporary — raises concerns about how researchers access essential scientific information. 'It also serves as a reminder of the need for contingency plans, such as alternative #repositories or offline access to critical research, to ensure that health-care providers and researchers are not left without crucial information when they need it most,' she says."

www.nature.com‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s futureA brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Medicine
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s future
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.

Comment: a fundamental and vitally important biomedical resource, the importance of which cannot be understated.

www.nature.com‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s futureA brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.
#PubMed#PubMedCentral#PM
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Hagen Domaška

Das ist entsetzlich. Wenige Forschungsbereiche sind so direkt auf die Verfügbarkeit von Daten angewiesen wie Biologie und Medizin. Einst waren die USA Pioniere bei der Schaffung von einschlägigen Datenbanken. Seit Jahrzehnten nutzt die *ganze* Welt diese Ressourcen. Nun leiden sie unter der Trumpschen Zerstörungswut, wie wir bei #PubMed sehen.
Alle sollten dringend überlegen, wie sie sich von einzelnen Staaten und einzelnen Software-Unternehmen unabhängig machen können. Nicht nur in der Wissenschaft, auch in Politik und Wirtschaft.
fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/114

Fosstodonbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: https://europepmc.org/ #pubmed #pmc
#opensource
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Ricardo Segurado

In February when things started to really look bad for US science, I took the very practical step of going through all my slides.

I replaced PubMed links with EuropePMC. (thankfully)

I checked all the National Library of Medicine links and made a list of reading materials to replace (reports, eBooks).

One thing I haven't done (and this might be harder) is swap out NCBI resources

I can't in good conscience give students materials that might vanish!

#Academia#Epidemiology#pubmed
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petersuber

Update. Therese Choquette ran searches on #PubMed and may have found gaps corresponding to terms banned by the #Trump admin.
linkedin.com/posts/therese-cho

PS: Unfortunately she compared US PubMed with Europe PubMed Central, which is apples to oranges. (PubMed is metadata-only and PMC is full text.) Can we crowdsource some systematic searches comparing (1) PubMed now with PubMed before Trump, e.g. in the Wayback Machine, and (2) US PMC with Europe PMC?

www.linkedin.comTherese Choquette (former Vallerskog) on LinkedIn: #pubmed | 31 comments**Edit: I did this search due to the situation here in the US. The intent was to see how US PubMed performed the searching on topics containing the ”forbidden” words. Not looking if any papers were purged, only the search responses.** I read that #PubMed was down off and on, and therefore I did a test (March 2, 2025 around 10am EST) to compare results from the NIH PubMed to the European PubMed. The outcome of the searches made my chin fall down to the floor since they provided completely different results! I expected different, but not to this extent. This really makes me upset and I see a very dark time for science here in the US, very heartbreaking. These were the searches: 1. womens health in low income states in USA 2. transgender diversity and equal opportunities for promotion in USA. The screenshots below are showing you the difference in the number of publications and content. I will for sure absolutely NOT trust the NIH PubMed when searching for publications and I will use the European version from now on. This is the link to the European PubMed: https://europepmc.org | 31 comments on LinkedIn
#DefendResearch#USPol#USPolitics
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