The PubMed ® Game Designed for librarians & library staff From PubMed for Experts Brought to you by NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region February 2013 rev 5. 5x4

Basic PubMed MeSHPubMed Trivia Searching More PM!

This is implied between items entered in the PubMed Search box…

What is AND? Remember to ALWAYS capitalize the Boolean operators, AND, OR, NOT!

A digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature with free full text…

What is a PMC (PubMed Central)?

The truncation symbol in PubMed…

What is the asterisk? While adjacency searching is not available in PubMed, by putting an asterisk after the second term—this forces PubMed to treat the terms as a phrase.

Describes an aspect of, or qualifies a MeSH heading…

What is a Subheading? Can be attached directly to a MeSH heading, knee/ab or “floating” knee AND ab [sh]

The number of MeSH headings assigned to an article…

What are headings?

MeSH terms automatically do this to expand or increase your retrieval…

What is explode? To NOT explode the term, you can select either “Do Not Explode this term” from the MeSH Database or add [Mesh:NoExp] to the term.

In the listing of MeSH headings, this symbol indicates the major emphasis of an article…

What is the asterisk? Tip: By looking at the MeSH headings, you may get ideas to enhance or refine your search!

Nasal bleedings, nose bleeds or nosebleed are examples of these for the MeSH heading, Epistaxis…

What are Entry Terms? Entry terms are often considered synonyms.

The number in millions of citations PubMed includes…

What is 22.5?

The option that one chooses in order to export citations into a reference management program...

What is the Citation manager?

The maximum amount of time items are available in history on the Advanced search page…

What is the 8 hours? The history will be lost after 8 hours of inactivity on PubMed or other NCBI databases

In My NCBI, this records up to 6 months of searches and citations that you have looked at…

What is Recent Activity? Remember, the Recent Activity only works if you are logged into your My NCBI account!

Allows you to select languages, age groups, subsets, publication types…

What are Filters?

Useful for finding a particular citation when you only have a few details…

What is the Single Citation Matcher?

This PubMed “sidebar” is designed to locate additional literature when a search retrieves a small, but relevant list of citations…

What is Related citations in PubMed?

This feature shows you how PubMed translates the terms you put in the search box…

What is Search details?

Maximum number of active filters allowed for PubMed in MY NCBI…

What is 15 active filters? You can save a larger number, but you can only display up to 15!

This feature lets you save citations into a temporary list…

What is the Clipboard? From the clipboard, you can then print, or save the citations as a file. To save indefinitely, add to a collection.

These brief tutorials usually take only 3-5 minutes of your time to learn about PubMed searching…

What are the Quick Tours?

Often overlooked, these link to previously created PubMed searches covering topics such as Healthy People 2020, Cancer and Health Literacy…

What are the Special Queries or Topic-Specific Queries?