Beyond PubMed: exploring other biomedical databases

Linda Atkinson & Juliet Ralph linda.atkinson@hcl.ox.ac.uk juliet.ralph@ouls.ox.ac.uk

In this session•What is PubMed?

•Database overlap and coverage

•Embase, the “European Medline”

•BIOSIS: biology, life sciences

•Other biomedical databases

What is PubMed?

• A way of searching MEDLINE: • U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) bibliographic database

• biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care,

and plant and animal science .

Medline• Over 19 million references to journal articles, including reviews and clinical trials.

• Gathered from 4,600 biomedical journals published in the USA and 70 other countries.

• 1950 - present.

PubMed with Oxford links

• Use this version to get authenticated access to Oxford's full-text (via the "Find it @ Oxford" icon which appears in each record).

•www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?myncbishare=Oxford_HCL

• This is the link used on SOLO, Oxlip+ and our library pages.

EMBASEEMBASE differs from Medline in a couple of ways• EMBASE has a particular focus on drugs &

pharmacology• EMBASE covers a wider range of non- English

language journals• To get the advantages of both Medline and

EMBASE use SCOPUS

SCOPUS• Good coverage- especially in Medicine as it

covers both Medline and EMBASE• It is a very large database covering 18,000 +

journal titles as well as some book series and conferences

• Also links to Scientific web sites through SCIRUS• It has an easy-to-use interface with useful add-

ons such as citation tracker & journal analyzer

BIOSIS Previews• Life sciences & biomedical research covering

pre-clinical & experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, & more.

• 5000 journals• Plus conferences, patents, and books • 1926 - present• Updated weekly

Access via

• Web of Knowledge• …which also hosts Web of Science

• Science Citation Index (1945-present) • Conference Proceedings Citation Index-

Science (1990-present) • Plus Medline!

• http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/

Other biomedical databases • AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine)

• Global Health • PsycINFO (psychology)• SportDiscus (sports science)

Clinical databases

• TRIP (Turning Research into Practice)• evidence for clinical practice

• UpToDate• authoritative answers to clinical questions

Cochrane Library

• a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

• Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions

• Systematic reviews

All available on• SOLO http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk • Or OxLIP+ (Oxford Libraries Information Platform)

• http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk• Search for database name

Find it @ Oxford

Database overlap•Compare journal title lists with

•JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)

•www.jisc-adat.com/adat/home.pl

Here to help• Health Care Libraries • www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/hcl• enquiries@hcl.ox.ac.uk

• Radcliffe Science Library • www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/science• enquiries.rsl@ouls.ox.ac.uk

Over to you

• Try an online tutorial from the list at• www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials

• Or go to SOLO http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk• Search for a database, eg BIOSIS• Click on Online Access• Search on a topic of your choice