PubMed/How to Search, Display, Download & Email (module 4.1)

MODULE 4.1 PubMed/How to Search, Display, Download & Email Instructions - This part of the: course is a PowerPoint demonstration intended to introduce you to PubMed/How to Search, Display, Download & Email module is off-line and is intended as an information resource for reference use.

Table of Contents Connecting to PubMed Navigating through PubMed Selecting a database to search on the black database bar Searching PubMed Display options Printing, saving and email options All 5 HINARI/PubMed modules will emphasize skills on how to use PubMed as a tool to identify full-text articles. PubMed is the foremost biomedical database that indexes articles from over 5,100+ biomedical journals. The skills in these modules include an overview of the PubMed website, using LIMITS in PubMed, Medical Subject Headings (MESH) and other tools (preview/index and history) for search strategies and using ‘MY NCBI’, a mechanism that allows you to setup filter tabs in your display area, save searches and receive automatic email alerts to new articles added to PubMed. By learning these skills, you will master an invaluable option for utilizing the e. -journals that are available via HINARI particularly since you will be able to identify articles available from multiple journals and HINARI participant publishers. Similarly to the first module, you will need access to the Internet and be required to complete a series of exercises. You must login to HINARI and then go to ‘search for articles through PubMed (Medline)’ or you will not have access to the full-text articles.

Logging on to HINARI 1 Before logging into PubMed, we can Login to the HINARI website using the URL http://www.who.int/hinari/

Logging into HINARI 2 You need to enter your HINARI User Name and Password in the appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. Note: If you do not properly sign on, you do not have access to full text articles.

Remember - if you fail to use the Login page, you have a second option on the Full text journals, databases, and other resources sub-page.

Main HINARI webpage Once you are logged in from the main HINARI webpage, access PubMed by clicking on Search HINARI journal articles through PubMed (Medline). From the main HINARI webpage you can access PubMed from the “Find articles” link in the body of the webpage. Click on Search for articles through PubMed (Medline).

As of October 2009, the PubMed display has been re-designed in a simpler and more intuitive fashion. The material in the red boxes will be covered in the four PubMed modules. Remember to access PubMed through HINARI or you will not have access to the full-text articles.

The bottom part of the initial PubMed page that is displayed here contains hypertext links to numerous databases and tools produced by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Note the Bookshelf option that gives you access to numerous full text e-books.

The Bookshelf contains an alphabetical list of more than 110 full-text books that you can access.

The Search box on PubMed is active The Search box on PubMed is active. Place your search statement in the box. In this example, we enter a search for malaria infections AND Africa into the Search or query box. To execute the query, click on the Search button.

Results of the search are displayed in the main body of the page in Summary Format, 20 Items per Page and Recently Added Sort by options. This is the default setting when you complete a search. Note the two additional filters for Free Full Text and HINARI articles. These have been created in the HINARI/PubMed searches saved in My NCBI (see module 4.5). Of the 3401 articles, 1377 are available via the HINARI filter and 992 with Free full text filter ( there are some overlaps).

Also note the additional hypertext link for Free article Also note the additional hypertext link for Free article. By clicking on this link, you will be re-directed to the Abstract display and be able to access the full text.

From the Abstract display, click on the hypertext link to the publisher’s website and the full text article. For HINARI articles, there will be HINARI icons and links.

You now have access to the full text article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

We now will set the Display Settings drop down menu for the Abstract Format, 20 Items per Page and Recently Added Sort by options. To activate these options, you will click on the Apply box.

Note the Abstract Format with 20 Items per page and the Recently Added Sort by options are displayed in the Display Settings line above the abstract. Note the Free Full Text and HINARI Filters. We now will click on the HINARI one. For this article, the link to the free full text article is below the abstract.

After clicking on the HINARI filter in the Abstract display, a list of all the HINARI articles appears with the HINARI icon. By clicking on this icon, the full-text article will display. The Free Full Text filter will work in the same way. Note that some articles will have both the HINARI and Free Full Text icons in the Abstract display.

We have accessed the full-text article using the HINARI icon from the Abstract display. Note that you can download the article as a PDF or XML file or print the document. Remember, you must be properly signed into HINARI to get access to the full-text articles.