SMR Information Solutions

We primarily serve the life sciences industry, because that is the industry our founder has studied and worked in for four decades.

Ruth M. Shipley is a former science librarian, clinical medical librarian and medical writer. She has a BA in Biology and Chemistry, a MS in Biochemistry and an MLIS (library degree). She has over 20 years of experience researching, analyzing and summarizing biomedical information.

Yes, you can search PubMed yourself for free.

But do you just throw a bunch of keywords in the search box and accept whatever you get? Do you at least use the Advanced search page so you’ll retrieve more relevant articles? Do you use MeSH so your results will be even more relevant?

If you would like to learn how to search PubMed more efficiently*, please contact us. We can provide individual and group training, preferably as a webinar.

If you need research but are not in the life sciences industry, please contact us. We belong to the international professional association for independent information brokers, the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). So we have over 500 associates who can help us with any project.

Many of us are former reference librarians who now work as entrepreneurs to help you find the critical business information you need to start or grow a successful business.

And we don’t just search the Internet! We have access to premium databases of information maintained by companies such as Dialog, Dow Jones Factiva, Lexis/Nexis, STN/Chemical Abstracts Service, and many more.

We can provide:

• Market research

• Competitive intelligence

• Product research

• People research

And many other types of research.

And we don’t just mail you a list of articles. We add value to the information we provide by analyzing the information and summarizing it in your choice of format.

We can provide everything from a two-page executive summary to a 150-page report complete with a table of contents, an index, a bibliography, and the full text of all the articles we retrieved. We can also deliver a Power Point presentation at your place of business or remotely via a webinar.

No project is too big or too small for us.

So if we are not the best researcher for you, we can find a highly qualified researcher who is. Usually in just a few hours.

Please contact us for more information about our services.

* By searching efficiently, we mean getting a set of results that is substantially smaller than 10,000 articles – maybe even smaller than 1,000 articles! – and at least 70% of the articles are exactly what you’re looking for.