Read by QxMD

Free for both iOS and Google Play, this is a smartphone and web-based app that can help you search millions of articles and create a personalized, digital medical journal to stay up with the science and your favorite topics. QxMD are partners with Cardio Exchange, Society for Vascular Surgery, Vascular Study Group of New England, American Academy of Family Physicians, and the Canadian Society of Nephrology. Read lets you select journals you want to follow. When following a journal, you are notified as soon as new content is added. New journals are integrated into Read regularly and journal preferences can be edited at any time. You can add simple terms or build more complex queries using Boolean operators, parentheses, phrase searching with quotes, truncation, or combining all of the above. You are notified when new articles containing the search terms become available. For each collection, you can view authors, number of papers, and how many followers each collection has. Collections are put together by QxMD and by individual users. Collection examples include: Essential Surgical Knowledge, Choosing Wisely, etc. You are able to view collection creators’ profiles, professions, specialties, and institutions. You can also access other collections by the same creator or read their comments. Following collections can help discover content outside your usual sources. Be notified by email or push notification alerts when new content becomes available (in print or digitally ahead of print). Notifications settings can be edited at any time. This is a feature Read is very proud of—being able to get full text articles with one tap via institutional subscriptions, or for free for open access articles. View all abstracts from subscription-based and open access journals, even if you do not have institutional access. Full text articles can be annotated; you can highlight, underline, and take notes. Once annotated, the articles are saved to your list of favorites (the annotations are saved on your device).

Read is a great app for browsing articles and following research trends. It provides one centralized place to discover abstracts with the possibility to annotate and save relevant papers in collections. It is easy to move between collections and open the desired paper with one tap.Read is not a great searching tool; search results are not always reliable across devices and you may not want search results personalized by an algorithm. Finally, the volume of articles to scan is still high, and the evidence is not synthesized or pre-appraised, begging the question as to whether research articles are the best format to improve practice at the bedside.

Features:
  • Get full text PDFs with one tap 
  • Keep up with the latest new research that will impact your practice 
  • Browse through 1000s of outstanding topic reviews 
  • Search millions of articles from PubMed and our database of outstanding topic reviews 
  • Read your favorite journals or browse article collections. 
  • Access full text through your university/institutional subscription or via open access publishers 
  • Share articles with colleagues over email, Twitter and Facebook 
  • Organize and review your personal collection of articles 

Pros:

  • The ability to create collections of articles, annotate PDFs, and store documents locally on your device.
  • Having a Table of Contents of all new journals in one place.
  • Ability to share collections among programs or groups of clinicians may be valuable.
  • Layout is intuitive and attractive.
Cons:

  • Topic Reviews are out-of-date. Relying on older review articles and recommendations from other Read users may not be sufficient in curating a valuable collection of high quality articles.
  • Search functionality under-performs.

Android Store Rating: 4.6 (1,778 reviews)
Apple Store Rating 4.6 (15 reviews)

Android additional Information:
 Updated
17 Sep 2018
Size
27M
Installs
100,000+
Requires Android
4.4 and up
Content Rating
PEGI 3

Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qxmd.readbyqxmd 

Apple additional Information:
Size
45.6 MB
Compatibility
Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Languages
English
Age Ratings
You must be at least 12+ years old to download this application.  s

Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/read-by-qxmd/id574041839?mt=8 

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