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Department of Neurology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; d.j.nicholl@bham.ac.uk

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All of us suffer from significant difficulty in keeping up to speed with the neurological literature. One study suggested that a dedicated doctor would have to read no less than 17 scientific articles a day, in order to keep pace with the medical literature. Quite simply having the time to keep up to date with your own area of subspecialist interest is a significant issue. One solution to this very real clinical problem is a website called PubCrawler (www.pubcrawler.ie). PubCrawler is a free "alerting" service set up by the genetics department of Trinity College, Dublin, that is specifically used for searching through publicly available databases such as Medline and Genbank. Genbank is not exactly the kind of database that the average general neurologist would want to trawl through, but Medline obviously is. The user can set the Medline criteria that one wants to search under, and PubCrawler will . . . [Full text of this article]