medline for medical research juliet ralph and césar pimenta hilary term 2007
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MEDLINE for Medical Research
Juliet Ralph and César Pimenta Hilary Term 2007
MEDLINE• MEDLINE is the United States National Library of
Medicine’s bibliographic database in fields such as Medicine, Nursing, Allied health, Pre-clinical sciences etc.
• It contains over 13 million citations to journal articles, including reviews and clinical trials
• 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries
• Dating back to 1950, with daily updates
MEDLINE
• Records are indexed with MeSH headings
• MeSH terms provide a consistent way of retrieving information that uses different terminology for the same concept.
• Abstracts are included for more than 75% of the records
Different Interfaces
• In Oxford, MEDLINE runs from the OVID Web Gateway
and PubMed
• Ovid: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/
• PubMed: http://www.pubmed.gov
Advantages of OVID Web Gateway
• Guided through selections for a precise search based on MeSH headings and limits
• Links to full-text collections subscribed by OULS
• Same interface as other medical databases
Ovid Platform
These medical and related databases are now available on Ovid:
• AMED – complementary medicine• British Nursing Index• Cinahl – nursing• Embase – pharmacology• Global Health – public health & tropical medicine• HMIC – Health Management Information Consortium• IBSS – International Bibliography of the Social Sciences• Medline - medicine• PsycInfo - psychology
Disadvantages of OVID Web Gateway
• Best results obtained by separate entry of search concepts and using the “Combine Searches” feature
• Users might find frustrating to have to examine the search closely in order to select relevant subject headings
Features of OVID Web Gateway• Searching - Map Term to Subject Heading: Mapping finds relevant subject headings - Combine searches: Uses Boolean operators to combine the results of search statements - Limits: Restricts results to language, age groups, year of publication, etc. - Find citation: Useful for checking a faulty or incomplete reference
• Locating full-text articles: Follow the link “Tour Oxford Full Text” to check electronic availability
Features of OVID Web Gateway• Viewing results: By selecting fields and clicking the Display
button
• Printing, Emailing and Saving: The Results Manager is located at the end of every Results display page
• Export to RefWorks or other personal bibliographic management software
• Setting AutoAlerts to favourite data sets
Use PubMed
• To get free access anywhere on the Internet
• To get quick results with strategies automatically created for you
We are here to help
• Queries about electronic journals and databases, including access problems
• Radcliffe Science Library [email protected]
• Life Sciences and Medicine [email protected] [email protected]
We welcome feedback
• You will get an e-mail with the online evaluation form in due course.
• Next WISER Science session: INSPEC for Physics and Engineering, Monday 5 Feb. 2007, 12.30 to 13.30
• http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/information_skills/wiser
Sample search topic
• Look for some recent literature on snoring and other sleep-related breathing problems (such as sleep apnoea) in young children