[PW] Re: "sounds like" searching

[Chana Lajcher - for Stumpers]

Sometimes Medline's encyclopedia can "guess" a badly spelled term, like
one of those online dictionaries.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

Another idea is to take the name of disease or a description of the
symptoms and search on that to read the treatments.  The name of the
drug may pop up.

Or try Merck:
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html

I get this type of query pretty often and that usually solves it.

Happy Labor Day and Shalom from Jerusalem,


Chana Lajcher - Library Director
Jerusalem College of Technology
21 HaVaad HaLeumi
Jerusalem, Israel 91160
chana at jct.ac.il
tel:   02-6751221
fax: 02-6751220

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Jeanne Schramm wrote:

> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:08:45 -0400
> From: Jeanne Schramm <jeanne.schramm at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: list at project-wombat.org
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> Subject: [PW] Re: "sounds like" searching
>
> What does it sound like?
> J. Schramm, WLSC
>
> On 9/2/06, Michelle Hawk <refdesk at lclibs.org> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to find a word (in this case, a medication),
> > when the patron only knows what the word sounds like, but really doesn't
> >have any idea of how it's really spelled? I've Googled the few spelling
> > variations I can think of, but can't find anything. Any help would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > ~Michelle
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Michelle Hawk
> >
> > Head of Reference
> >
> > Lebanon Community Library
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> > 125 North 7th Street
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> > Lebanon, PA 17046
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