title: A scientific collaboration tool built on the facebook platform.
abstract: We describe an application ("Medline Publications")written for the Facebook platform that allows users to maintain and publish a list of their own Medline-indexed publications, as well as easily access their contacts lists. The system is semi-automatic in that it interfaces directly with the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database to find and retrieve citation data. Furthermore, the system has the capability to present the user with sets of other users with similar publication profiles. As of July 2008,Medline Publications has attracted approximately 759 users, 624 of which have listed a total of 5,193 unique publications.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Steven D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Bedrick
authors.forename: Dean F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Sittig
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods*; D057218:Blogging / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016239:MEDLINE; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D009922:Oregon; D012586:Science / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface