Access Webdash

What is it?

Webdash is a personal web assistant designed specifically for biomedical research and collaboration. It lets you overlay your own annotations and organization on top of the general web. With Webdash, you can annotate and organize web pages and papers, send them to colleagues with the click of a button, discuss them in private groups, and export them to EndNote.

Webdash lets you harvest article metadata from sites like PubMed, HighWire, and BioMed Central right from your browser. No need to laboriously export citations — Webdash can extract them for you as you do your research and it even lets you add your own subject tags and notes right alongside standard bibliographic data like MeSH headings. A collaborative complement to EndNote with thoughtfully implemented privacy and security features, Webdash lets you tame your web data. Webdash runs as client-side JavaScript and works in any browser without any installation.

Working on a paper on more than one computer? No problem. Your data is always at your fingertips with Webdash.

Want to share your notes with colleagues or annotate an article for your journal club? Webdash supports collaborative research without making the fruit of that collaboration publicly accessible. With Webdash, your data is private and secure by default. Sharing is simple but you control what and when you want to share.

How do I start?

1. Access Webdash (SUNet ID required).
2. Follow the "instructions" link to create a Webdash bookmark in your browser.
   
   
3. After you click on the Webdash bookmarklet when you come to a page you want, "[Click Here to Login]" and follow the directions to login with your SUNet ID
   
   
4. For help, Ask Us.

What can I do with Webdash?

1. Capture article citation information while searching PubMed, HighWire, or BioMed Central.
   • Find an article.
   • Invoke Webdash by clicking on your Webdash bookmark.
   • Webdash opens in the lower pane of your browser and automatically extracts article data including MeSH headings.
   
   
   
2. Add notes about it by clicking on "Add a note" then click "Add".
   
   
3. Add your own subject tags to it by clicking the icon next to the title. Multiple tags can be separated with a comma. Click "Update" to save your tag data.
   
   Your tags appear in the right-hand column of the Webdash pane. Use your tags to organize your entries and quickly retrieve related articles.
   
4. To delete a citation, find it, click on the title area then use the "Delete" button.
5. Export citations to EndNote by clicking the "Export to: [Endnote]" link within any entry. You can also export all articles associated with a specific tag by clicking your tag and then the "Export to: [Endnote]" link below your list of articles.
   
   
6. E-mail a reference to a colleague by clicking "Send" in the left-hand column. Recommendations with personalized messages can be sent to individuals or groups. Webdash even lets you invite recipients to join Webdash.
   
   
7. Create a private discussion group to collaborate with your peers or other journal club members.
   • Click on "Groups".
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   • Fill in the Group Name, Description and People fields.
   • Like all your data in Webdash, group discussions are private and secure.
     

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