Livia Vasas PhD www.lib.sote.hu Budapest, September 2011. National Center for Biomedical Information http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ Books, journals, NLM Catalogue PubMed, MESH database Literature Retrieval Livia Vasas PhD www.lib.sote.hu Budapest, September 2011.

Abbreviations connections MeSH: Medical Subject Heading NLM: National Library of Medicine: NIH: National Institutes of Health NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information. NCBI belongs to NLM and NLM itself is a department of NIH.

MEDLINE - Definition A MEDLINE database is the electronic counterpart of Index Medicus®, Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index, taken care by NLM. MEDLINE is the most used medical bibliographic database.

TOPICS COVERED BY MEDLINE BASED ON NEARLY 5000 SCHOLAR JOURNALS (Journal Database) Medicine Nursing Dentistry Veterinary medicine Allied health Pre-clinical sciences

WHAT IS PUBMED? A MEDLINE has different accesses and platforms. The most known and popular one is PubMed, the web based database taken care by NLM. But other MEDLINEs: OVID MEDLINE ProQuest MEDLINE, EBSCO MEDLINE etc. More than 30 versions

PubMed –special features It can be accessed from anywere if the internet connection is available. Open access Special records (process…. ) Updated daily

Sign in – register for an account Detailed search question can be saved: „Save search” E-mail notification if there are new records for a search „Manage Filters” settings will remain Useful records can be put into Collections

My NCBI

You need to get to the full-text article!

At the literature searching listen to the PubMed: My NCBI usage MeSH – thesaurus usage ------------------------------------------------- You need TIME to think about the proper searching methods This is an iterative process The electronic resources are expensive (databases, e-periodicals) except PubMed