celebrating national medical librarians month 2005!
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Celebrating National Medical Celebrating National Medical Librarians Month 2005!Librarians Month 2005!
Today you will learn…
How to save a search strategy How to set up an Auto Alert How to sort results using filters Full Author name searching and First
Author Searching Setting up an RSS Feed for a PM search How to delete search statement numbers
from History
And ….
Easy ways to Limit search results The neatest way to print search results How to avoid printing/saving duplicates
of search results The format that you must use to import
to EndNote How to determine if TRL owns a title
And all this, too
How to order interlibrary loans directly from PM
An easy way to find articles like one that you love
Searching and browsing the bookshelf AND MORE!
MEDLINE? PubMed? What’s the difference ?
Medline indexes journal literature in:Medicine
Nursing
dentistry
Veterinary medicine
Health care system
Preclinical sciences
It goes back to 1966
What’s the difference?
PubMed includes MEDLINE and more!• OLDMEDLINE – medical literature from 1950-
1965
• “out-of-scope” citations
• “in-process” citations
• Journals available in PubMed Central not included in MEDLINE
• Links – to full-text , to related records, to books in the “bookshelf” and more!
What’s NOT included in PubMed?
Not all journals are included Meeting abstracts are not included Books and book chapters are not indexed PubMed does not supply full-text of journal
articles; some publishers supply some full-text to the world for free but most full-text to journals is supplied by the Talbot Research Library by subscription
PubMed is popular and growing...
Will add 600,000 citations this year There are over 15.5 million citations in
PubMed 155 journals have been added in the last
year 68,000,000 searches were done in
March 2005 as compared to 59,200,000 in March 2004
What’s New? My NCBI replaces Cubby and allows
customization Filters added Highlighting added Spell-check added Autocomplete added for authors and
journals New Author search features – Full Author
Name search and First Author search RSS (Really Simple Syndication) added OLDMEDLINE goes back to 1950
“My NCBI” replaces “Cubby”
Save search strategiesUpdate search strategiesGenerate automatic e-mail updates
for saved search strategiesChoose filters to sort your search
retrieval by categories
Saving searches and Auto Alerts
1. Run a search in PubMed2. Make sure that the last search statement ties
everything together3. Click on Save Search hyperlink (results
page)4. You will be prompted to sign in if not already
signed in5. Fill in the requested info on the screen6. Click OK when finished
PubMed adds Highlighting! Highlighted terms include your search
terms as well as “mapped to” subject terms, and truncated words or phrases
Highlighting must be turned on via My NCBI and is active only when you are signed into My NCBI
How to Activate Highlighting
Sign in to My NCBIClick User Preferences on sidebarSelect a color (yellow, green, plum,
or aqua) and click OK
My NCBI – Facts and Review
My NCBI allows you to store searches that can be updated manually or sent automatically
My NCBI can have only one e-mail address
E-mail address can be changed – click on User Preferences on the My NCBI sidebar
My NCBI - continued
Subject searches, author searches, and journal title searches can be saved and updated
Saved strategies can be changed to automatic alerts by clicking on Details on the saved search screen
Saved search strategies can not be edited
More My NCBI
Search statement numbers can be used in saved searches
Highlighting can be turned on or off via User Preferences
My NCBI will allow you to choose up to 5 filters (Review is a default)
The “hammer and wrench icon” will link you to My NCBI Filters
RSS Feeds – just added!
RSS is a web standard for the delivery of news and other frequently updated content
RSS provides another way of keeping up-to-date
An RSS reader is required Multiple PubMed searches can be set up for
RSS feeds; PM RSS feeds will include citations retrieved since the last time you connected to your RSS reader
Now you see the XML screen. Copy the URL from the address line and paste this into the “subscribe” form in your RSS reader
After subscribing successfullyto a PubMed RSS feed,You will receive daily messages in your RSS reader
Setting up an RSS Feed for PubMed
1. Install an RSS reader
2. Perform search in PubMed; use “send to” dropdown to send to RSS Feed
3. Name your search then click “create feed”
4. Click on orange XML icon
5. Paste URL into your RSS reader
First Author Search
Retrieve papers where a specified author appears as the first author
Added to Single Citation Matcher Added to Limits Added to Index Designated with [1au] field tag
Single Citation Matcher Enhancements added this Spring
First author searchingAutocomplete for Journal
TitlesAutocomplete for Author
names
Full Author Names now searchable!
Full author names have been added to PM records starting with 2002 publications
Full author names are added to PM from journals that publish full author names as they are published in the original journal article
Notes on Full Name Author Searching
Full Author Names cannot be used with the first author name search feature
This feature limits retrieval to publications from 2002 forward and to journals that publish full author names
You can use natural or inverted order with full author names, i.e. michael nance or nance michael
More on Full Author Names
A comma is not necessary unless to distinguish last from first names, i.e. ryan, james
Honorifics, i.e. Ph.D, are never included Do not use the truncation symbol (*) if you
don’t know the middle initial Include a space between names that have
multiple middle initials, Peter F H Schwab Do not include periods
Author Search Links added to PubMed
Author names displayed in PubMed’s Abstract and Citation formats have become “search Links” to author searches
Place your cursor over an author’s name and click to search for citations for that author
More on Author Searching…
Note this! when using author search links – if the
author has published using another form of his name you won’t retrieve this, i.e. middle initials
Part II – Features and Basic Searching Review Basic Searching History Limiting results Displaying / saving search results Clipboard Single Citation Matcher Book Shelf Links
MEDLINE? PubMed? What’s the difference ?
Medline indexes journal literature in:Medicine
Nursing
dentistry
Veterinary medicine
Health care system
Preclinical sciences
It goes back to 1966
What’s the difference?
PubMed includes MEDLINE and more!• OLDMEDLINE – medical literature from 1950-
1965
• “out-of-scope” citations
• “in-process” citations
• Journals available in PubMed Central not included in MEDLINE
• Links – to full-text , to related records, to books in the “bookshelf” and more!
What’s NOT included in PubMed?
Not all journals are included Meeting abstracts are not included Books and book chapters are not indexed PubMed does not supply full-text of journal
articles; some publishers supply some full-text to the world for free but most full-text to journals is supplied by the Talbot Research Library by subscription
PubMed is popular and growing...
Will add 600,000 citations this year There are over 15.5 million citations in
PubMed 155 journals have been added in the last
year 68,000,000 searches were done in
March 2005 as compared to 59,200,000 in March 2004
Basic Searching
Type a word or phrase in the search box and hit GO
Combine search terms with connectors or “operators” : AND, OR, NOT
These connectors must be typed in upper case letters!
History Build and control your searches by
adding, combining, grouping and/or deleting search statements
Some easy ways to Limiting Search Results
Detail boxLimits – some that tend to be
ignored
•Date range
•Subsets
Useful subsets
Core clinical Journals Cancer Nursing Journals TIP! In order to search the pre-1966
literature you must choose the OLDMEDLINE subset
Managing your search results
Display formatNumber of results to showOptions to “capture” your
desired results
E-mail search results to yourself or to a colleague
NOTE: Only one e-mail address can be used at a time
Clipboard
Perform multiple searches and keep desired references in one place
No duplicates! Select format, print, save, and e-mail
search results
Select results and then choose Send to ClipboardNOTE! If you do not select then ALL results will go to the Clipboard
The numbers of selected citations turn green; message indicates numberof citations sent to the Clipboard
Single Citation Matcher
Find missing parts of references Verify references Prepare bibliographies Produce tables of contents
Please Note!
Not all journals participate in linkout!
If you don’t see a link to a journal in PM, be sure to check the Journals Holdings List (or WebCat) before ordering it!!