Trip (search engine)

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Trip
Developer(s) Trip Database Ltd
Type Search engine
License Proprietary
Website Trip

Trip is a free clinical search engine used in the United Kingdom to help clinicians identify research evidence, in part for creating systematic reviews. [1]

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History

The site was created in 1997 by Jon Brassey and Chris Price in Gwent, South Wales. [2] In 1999, one source reported it aggregated results from 25 websites. [3] In 2003, Trip became a subscription-only service. This was abandoned In September 2006 and in 2015 followed a freemium business model. Originally "Trip" stood for Turning Research Into Practice. [4]

Usage

Between May 2004 and May 2005, 620,735 searches were undertaken. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Tsafnat, Guy; Glasziou, Paul; Choong, Miew Keen; Dunn, Adam; Galgani, Filippo; Coiera, Enrico (2014). "Systematic review automation technologies". Systematic Reviews. 3 (1): 74. doi: 10.1186/2046-4053-3-74 . ISSN   2046-4053. PMC   4100748 . PMID   25005128.
  2. 1 2 Meats, Emma; Brassey, Jon; Heneghan, Carl; Glasziou, Paul (2007). "Using the Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database: how do clinicians really search?". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 95 (2): 156–163. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.95.2.156 (inactive 1 July 2025). ISSN   1558-9439. PMC   1852632 . PMID   17443248.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  3. ↑ "Web Watch - January 1999". Archived from the original on 5 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "About". Trip. Trip Database Ltd. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
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