pubmed and its search options jan emmerich, sonja jacobi, kerstin müller (5th semester library...
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PubMed and its search options
Jan Emmerich, Sonja Jacobi, Kerstin Müller(5th Semester Library Management)
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What is PubMed? Welcome to PubMed Search options
Simple search Simple search by search field tags
Advanced search Search by limitations Search by category fields Search by index field
Display settings Save options
What is PubMed?
free meta search engine access to the bibliographic information source
MEDLINE daily update increase of 500.000 records a year contains approximately 19 million article citations from
5.000 journals published worldwide service of the United States National Library of
Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
What is PubMed?
articles are indexed under the application of the MeSH thesaurus
MeSH contains nearly 25.000 descriptors
is a part of the Entrez information retrieval system which is a global query cross-database search system
offers many different search options for non- and professional researchers
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
What is PubMed?
Offers access to…
Oldmedline (articles before 1966)
PRE-Medline: in-process citations (currently about 100.000)
HealthStar (about 3 million records)
Journals from peripheral areas of medicine
Non-medical articles in Medline journals
References to journal full texts
Links to patent information on the Internet
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Welcome to PubMed
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Welcome to PubMed
“using PubMed” various help texts online training by movies
“PubMed tools” direct access to:
the journal search search of clinical studies pool of various special searches
“More resources” direct access to certain databases
“Sign in” free account to expand the possibilities of using PubMed
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Welcome to PubMed
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Welcome to PubMed
“getting started” general information how to use PubMed:
help manual “NCBI Handbook” various trainings and tutorials
“resources” PM databases summarized under different headings
“How to” more information about how to receive the full texts of the
articles
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Welcome to PubMed
“Popular” list of the most used databases quick access to the major databases
“Featured” offers more utilities and databases
“NCBI information” general information about NCBI contact information newsletter
“Help Desk” contact PubMed directly
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Simple search
keyword search formulations
logical interconnections The Boolean operators AND (intersection); OR (union); NOT
(exclusion) bracket setting search for phrases wildcard search
various help boxes related articles more articles with search terms in the title suggestions to use other, specified search terms history of recent activities
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Search options
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Simple search by search field tags
Frequently used search-field tags
[au] - author [dp] - date published (YYYY/MM/DD) [ip] - issue, part or supplement [la] - language [pg] - first page number of the article [pmid] - PubMed ID [pt] - publication type [ta] - journal title [ti] - title words [vi] – volume
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Advanced search
provides the same operators like the simple search
additionally specification of the search query
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Search by category fields
combination of different category fields
search of the index entries of every category field
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Search by index field
automatic bracket setting
research is possible in “all fields” or in certain fields like “author”, “language”, “title”, …
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Display settings
Possibilities
summary summary (text) abstract abstract (text) MEDLINE XML PMID List
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Save optionsPossibilities
file (copy will be saved on the computer) clipboard (copy will be saved virtual, limit: 500 results) collections (saves search queries) email (copy of the article and an optional message will
be send to an email address) order (interlibrary lending /document delivery)
o What is PubMed? o Welcome to PubMed o Search options o Display settings o Save options
Thank you!