As medical research becomes an increasingly complex process that often includes some form of collaboration, a number of online tools have emerged to help meet this need. This column aims to search broadly across a number of these resources and organize the findings into a list of examples tailored to the interests of medical librarians. Specific attention is paid to organizing resources into broad categories and examining why they may be of importance to libraries. A few detailed examples of tools currently in useare also provided.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.