title: Positive linking: a survival guide on how to keep up-to-date with pediatric infectious diseases literature using Internet technology.
abstract: A large number of medical journals publish an increasing number of articles each year. Keeping up-to-date with pediatric literature seems therefore an almost impossible task. For clinicians and researchers, who all have long, busy and tightly scheduled working days, time to find relevant new publications is scarce. The internet now offers numerous tools and opportunities that can help sort through this wealth of information, making it possible to keep up-to-date with relevant literature. In this article, we describe some of the different tools on offer and provide a selection of links and websites that facilitate efficient information management.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases Unit, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Loher-Niederer
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maccora
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ritz
mesh_terms: D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D001635:Bibliography of Medicine; D003141:Communicable Diseases; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D010372:Pediatrics; D060756:Social Networking