PubMed (AUSP) 2008

PubMed and Other Databases: Audiology/Speech Pathology Kay Cunningham Electronic Resources Librarian Revised: October 20, 2008

From All Databases A-Z list http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/dblistaz.html

PubMed —medicine, indexes journal articles, 1950-present

PubMed Central —medicine, archives free life science journals, dates vary

Entrez —life sciences, metasearches all NCBI databases, dates vary

CINAHL —nursing/allied health, indexes journals, books, chapters, with fulltext aggregations, 1982-present

Dissertation Abstracts-- multidisciplinary, indexes and abstracts dissertations (and some theses) in all subjects, 1861- , with abstracts, 1980-present

ERIC —education, indexes journals, books, chapters, with fulltext ERIC documents (not journals), 1966-present

Nursing and Allied Health Collection —aggregates fulltext of selected journals, dates vary

PsycInfo —indexes journals, books, chapters, 1806-present

PsycArticles —archives APA journals in fulltext, 1985-present

ScienceDirect —archives Elsevier journals in fulltext, 1995-present

Web of Knowledge—ISI Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Journal Citation Report

WorldCat —union catalog of library holdings (books, dissertations, serials by title), dates vary

Why PubMed? (And not MEDLINE)

PubMed contains ALL that’s in MEDLINE, but MEDLINE does not contain all that’s in PubMed

In addition to MEDLINE, PubMed provides

“ In Process” articles—the most recent 30 days

Publisher-supplied indexing from selectively-indexed titles—both current and historic

Out-of-scope articles

“ Old” MedLine (pre-1966) articles

A Clinical filter

Interconnectedness with other NCBI databases

PubMed —Main page http://pubmed.gov

Details tab Even though you only typed “swallowing disorders,” PubMed automatically searches the relevant MeSH term along with your text words. In addition non-MeSH terms are searched both as words and as phrases.

Results list

Results List: changing from the Summary View Click on the drop-down arrow next to Display Summary and choose the relevant display. Abstract provides the abstracts; AbstractPlus, abstracts and supplemental material.

AbstractPlus display The AbstractPlus View provides links to related articles, links to results in other NCBI databases, links to the publisher site (fulltext is available if the institution has a subscription, and—if you have registered with NCBI—the holdings of the medical library(s) of your choice, in this case UTMemphis.

Basic Search Tips

Authors—last name first, at least one initial, no punctuation

Example: Studebaker GA

Subject/keyword concepts—string in words, no Boolean connectors

Example: dysphasia children treatment

(("aphasia"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "aphasia"[MeSH Terms] OR dysphasia[Text Word]) AND (("child"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "child"[MeSH Terms] OR children[Text Word]) AND ("therapy"[Subheading] OR ("therapeutics"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "therapeutics"[MeSH Terms] OR treatment[Text Word]) TRANSLATION=

Advanced Search Filters

PubMed Services (see Blue Sidebar)

Journals Database

MeSH Database

Single Citation Matcher

Clinical Queries

Journals

Use the Journal Database to search for journals by title

Abbreviate

J Med Ethics

or Spell Out

Journal of Medical Ethics

MeSH (Medline Subject Headings) Note suggestions, subheadings, entry terms, and the broader and narrower terms of the Tree.

Single Citation Matcher

Use to verify a partial reference

Mix and match bibliographic elements

Author (as first or last)

Year (month/day optional)

Volume

Issue

Title words

Start page

Clinical Queries Use the Clinical Queries filter to limit searches to the areas of etiology, diagnosis, therapy, or prognosis

Advanced Search Tips

Limits

Preview/Index

History

Limits Limit by language, gender, type of article, age of subject, human or animal, date, availability of abstract, availability of free full text, etc.

Preview/Index—Index Use CTRL-Click to select more than one item in the Index. Click AND to add the selections to the Search Box.

Index Search Fields

All fields are indexed and can be searched using the Preview/Index list

Affiliation

Grant Number

Text word (use this if you want to search specific phrases that are not MeSH terms)

History

Automatically maintained on your computer for 8 hours—even if you close the browser

Searches can be saved permanently in My NCBI

Use to combine searches

AND, OR, NOT

#2 AND #3

#5 OR #6 OR #7

#8 NOT #4

Here we combine the search on “electrophysiology” with all variations on “central processing” found in the Index.

New History Features—Recent Activity The Recent Activity box provides easy access to earlier searches. Click on a link to go back to a search.

Some Tips to Remember

Speed up things by conducting searches from History or from Preview/Index

You’ll see the number of results without having to wait for pages to load

To exclude items (NOT), use the History. First search on the concept you want (#1), then on the concept you don’t want (#2), then

#1 NOT #2

Other aspects of PubMed to be aware of…

Interconnectedness

PubMed automatically connects to other NCBI databases

Make these connections by

Changing the Display, from Summary to whatever

Clicking the Links (to the right side of the screen in both Summary and Abstract views)

Going to Entrez and cross-searching the entire range of NCBI resources

Entrez: NCBI’s metasearcher

PubMed Central

All articles in PMC are free, but

Only some journals are represented

Publishers may deposit journals in PMC, with or without allowing immediate access; some are embargo’d

Researchers using NIH funding deposit MS versions of their articles in PMC

It is not necessary to search PMC and PubMed separately; all items in PMC will be retrieved in a PubMed search

BookShelf

Search directly through the Bookshelf

OR

Activate book links in PubMed abstracts (the linked words in the activated abstracts are automatically run as searches in the Bookshelf collection)

OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man --fulltext summaries of genetic disorders

My NCBI—Registration and Personalization

Save complex searches to run later

Schedule automatic updates for saved searches

Set up to 5 permanent filters or limits (English language only, review articles, etc.)

Show holdings from selected medical libraries, like UT or Vanderbilt

Save citations

My NCBI If you use the same computer for your searches, you can stay permanently logged-in to My NCBI.

Be Aware

PubMed’s open access nature makes it free to all and available through any Internet connection. Because of this, the UofM (as a non-medical library) cannot make modifications to the interface to show its holdings or make it interconnect with other UofM licensed databases (like CINAHL, or PsycInfo).