Most of the audience for this blog will be familiar with the use of “Google” as a verb to describe searching the World Wide Web for information on a given topic. “I googled a half-dozen mojito recipes which we tried out on the Fourth”. “Did you google your blind date/new postdoc to make sure he isn’t a psycho?”. “You got dinner plans after the conference sessions end for the day? No? Lemme google up some restaurants.”

The applications of “to google” are endless and endemic. Many, if not all, readers will admit to the fact that the ability to nearly instantly seek out a large amount of data (some accurate, some not, some misleading, true) on any topic of interest has become a default part of daily life. Those of you with iPhones, well, a part of hourly life perhaps?

Lagging well behind this transformation of our information-age lives, but assuredly steaming right along behind, is the verb-ification of PubMed. For some of us, it is here already. This is the area where I am sympathetic to the antics of the Open Access Acolytes™.

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