Well it looks like Stew has been souping-up his Science blog clearing warehouse, PostGenomic. A valuable source for searching the scientific blog-o-sphere (i.e. wasting time).
Interestingly there are stats for manuscripts floating round the blog-o-sphere and for many science blogs. Apparently The Daily Transcript is equivalent to Newsweek (does this mean that I'm the Fareed Zakaria of ScienceBlogs?)
For more on PostGenomic, visit Stew's blog Flags and Lollipops.
(Something really cool that I saw at Pg: HubMed, an alternative to PubMed. Click here to read the manuscript describing HubMed in Nucleic Acids Research.)
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In my hands Hubmed never worked properly, although I must admit that it is several months ago when I have tried it.
My favorite alternative to pubmed to pubmed is scopus. Unfortunately, a subscription is required. The nice thing is that one can get the references from the searched papers like in ISI web of knowledge, which is some advantage compared to the "related articles" in Medline. When one sorts the results of an author search by the number of articles that cite the author's papers one can easily determine the Hirsch factor for any given author. In addition one will find patetents if the author has any.
A very nice tool to play around with is pubnet by Mark Gerstein. It helped us to visualize the cooperations we have with other labs, e.g. co-authored papers, shared pubmed mesh terms of publications etc..
If you use pubnet be sure that you follow the Medline syntax rules. And don't put in to many author names or PMID numbers when you start using it. You may try it with the following input:
16244655[PMID] or 15890620[PMID] or 15345036[PMID] or 15083518[PMID] or 12075355[PMID] or 11788609[PMID] or 10679246[PMID] or 9457905[PMID] or 8785588[PMID] or 7557988[PMID] or 7530238[PMID] or 1310832[pmid] or 7749063[pmid]
Have fun
Unortunately, I used the PT style of KwickXML and the links did not show up.
Scopus:
http://www.scopus.com/
Pubnet:
http://pubnet.gersteinlab.org/
I saw http://www.scienceblogs.com/transcript/2006/09/postgenomic_revamped.php and wanted to mention a new site for biomedical research:
http://www.biomedsearch.com
The site is free, and perhaps the most comprehensive biomedical site on the web. It has all PubMed and MedLine documents, plus mililons more (often in full text).
It also has account features such as portfolios to save documents, the ability to share documents (and comment on them) between users, and set up automatic alerts.