Lívia Vasas, PhD vasas.livia@semmelweis-univ.hu 2018 The National Library of Medicine and its databases Mozilla Firefox/Google Chrome Lívia Vasas, PhD vasas.livia@semmelweis-univ.hu 2018
Acronyms NIH: National Institutes of Health NLM: National Library of Medicine NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information MeSH: Medical Subject Heading PMC: PubMed Central AID: Article Identifier DOI: Digital Object Identifier ISSN: International Standard Serial Number NCBI a division of NLM at NIH More info: NCBI Handbook http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK143764/ .
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/mms/medlineelements.html
Be as specific as possible too many journals, too many articles, and too little time
MEDLINE – Definition History The 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
MEDLINE - 1960 PubMed - 1996 a database with bibliographic records from journal articles www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html More than 28 million records from 5600 journals (medical, dentistry, nursing, health care, medical history journals,) Online books are being indexed The MEDLINE records contain Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Most of the citations are from English-language journals and include abstracts
MEDLINE – a subset of PubMed
Comparison (The subject covered is the same: medicine, biomedical and life sciences, immediate EndNote export) PubMed Medline Free use From 1966, sorted from 1809 Cc. 5600 journals + e books, not medical journals, older records Basic, keywords, advanced search (automat MeSH) Clinical queries, genetic topics,systematic review Subscription-related (OVID, EBSCO, PROQUEST) From 1946 Cc. 5600 journals Advanced search EBM reviews limitations MeSH term + extensive subheadings…
More valuable data in MEDLINE records https://www. nlm. nih MeSH terms Publication types Substance name Controlled bibliographic data
PubMed - basic search
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00240-016-0882-9
Sign in – register for an account (since 2005) from Mozilla Do not use special characters at registration (– á Ö . : ; *) Detailed search question can be saved: „Save search” E-mail notification if there are new records for a search „Manage Filters” settings will remain (can customize your own filter Useful records can be put into Collections
My NCBI: Tools for Saving Searches, Sharing Information and Receiving Alerts Register for a My NCBI account. Apply user preferences. Save searches. Set up automatic email alerts. Create collections of citations. Share collections of citations.
Apply user preferencies Manage Filters ….. Properties - Subsets: MEDLINE records http://nnlm.gov/ntc/2015/04/06/pubmed-display-changes-citation-status-tags/ Create custom filter „in process”
Author information My NCBI – NCBI Site Preferencies – Author Information - On
PubMed possibilities Show additional filters Send to, Save search Advanced search Results by year, by relevance PMC images search for Titles with your search terms free full-text articles in PubMed Central Search details Recent activities PubMed Commons etc.
Save search …Create alert …
Collections …
Advanced Search Valentin’s Day… The title is: survival time of chocolates on hospital wards how many images are? 1 4 6 The authors work in universities. True False
Exercise „Create alert” - Saved search (a subject, one person) „Send to” - Create a collection of any subject with 4 records
Starting at MESH
From MESH
Exercise MeSH term (Entry term): Broken Heart Syndrome The subheading is: psychology The result in PubMed: The number of reviews: 5-30 24-40 41-60 Published in the last 5 years: 5-25 40-70 71-80
Search in special journals
Clinical Queries
PMC
This search is still not a good search…. Analize the result to find more relevant keywords– rethink the search process Special attention to the publication types…
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A proper search Match the question to the source (PubMed, PMC, other database …) Develop a search strategy Step by step (MeSH, free words, filters, etc.)
Own database from the useful records
2013 – PubMed Commons
MedlinePlus – for everybody http://www. nlm. nih
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Questions MEDLINE contains less records than PubMed. True False The DOI number: 10.1167/iovs.13-13562 The article has an author called Szel A . True False
Questions The Cardiology main MESH term, subheading „trends” will result how much „clinical trial” type publications? 0-20 100-150 10-20 250-300 doi: 10.1714/2190.23668 Type of the publication: Review article comparative study letter
Question The correct DOI number of the article which has Vasas and Berhidi as authors, and was published in 2013 is: 10.1556/.2013.29653 10.1556/OH….29653 10.1556/OH.2013.29653
Question Child diseased with Ebola. Start the search in MESH. How much review type publications about it in PubMed? 100-200 50-100 0-20 20-50
Doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001359 Is this an open access article? Yes No 10 images are in this article. True False 53 items are in the reference list. True False
doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2015.08.003 Is this an open access article? Yes No Number of tables: 1 3 5 10
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