1. Literature Searching Using Medline Janet MacKay, Susan McCourt & Elaine Shallcross 2009/10 ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10

7. “ What is the role of genetic and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of Paget's disease?” ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10 or an d concepts alternative keywords Idea 1 Paget’s disease Paget’s disease of Bone osteitis deformans Idea 2 gene$ inherit$ hereditary familial Idea 3 environment$ circumstan$

10. Access to Medline is via MetaLib

12. OVID provides access to a number of databases. Scroll down for Medline

13. Many entries for Medline – click on the entry you require

14. Search screen defaulted to Advanced Ovid Search – most flexible for subject searches

15. Don’t type in the title of your research topic …

16. … because you are likely to get this … No hits, even in a database with millions of references. Why? – you didn’t follow the search rules for the database

17. “ What is the role of genetic and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of Paget's disease?” ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10 or an d concepts alternative keywords Idea 1 Paget’s disease Paget’s disease of Bone osteitis deformans Idea 2 gene$ inherit$ hereditary familial Idea 3 environment$ circumstan$

18. Keep the Map Term to Subject Heading ticked. Enter the first concept. Click Search

19. Mapping Display of the MeSH terms (Medical Subject Headings) attached to your keyword

21. Click on the Scope Note icon to see if the term is correct

23. What do the Explode and Focus boxes do?

25. To find those more specific terms, go to the Tree …

26. The Tree shows where the term is placed within more general and more specific terms

28. ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10 Mastectomy example

30. Select the term and click Continue . If you cannot find a term, do a Keyword search

31. Subheading Display

33. Select the term(s) or select Include All Subheadings . C lick Continue .

34. Open Search History to see search results. Enter 2nd idea in search box. C lick Search

35. Select the searches to combine them. Combine searches with And

36. Click on Display to see your results

37. ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10 To apply limits to your results, click on link beside Limits . For further limits click Additional Limits button

38. ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10 Select any number of limits and click on Limit a Search button

39. ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10

43. ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10 Search Tools

44. ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10 Permuted Index

48. Why bother?

50. Click on the SFX button to find out if we have access to the full-text

51. If there’s an entry under Read this now , we have access to the full-text electronically

53. If there’s no entry under Read this now , check the library catalogue for the hardcopy

54. Catalogue display when the journal is available in paper format Click on the title to find out if we hold the year you want

55. If the Summary Holding says we have the year, make a note of the Shelfmark

56. Display when the journal is NOT available in paper format (we don’t subscribe to it)

58. How can I keep track of what I have found? Can I save these records? ©Library & Historic Collections, 2009/10

59. Select the references you are interested in and scroll down the page…

60. to the Results Manager

61. You can export your results to RefWorks

62. Setting up your own Personal Account

63. Complete the form

64. Click on Save Search History to save the current search

65. Give the search a name and set the Type to Permanent. Click Save

66. Setting up an auto alert. Save your search and this time select AutoAlert . Click Save

67. Complete the form to set up the AutoAlert