1. The National Library of Medicine and its databases
Lívia Vasas, PhD
2016

3. Abbreviations 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 .

4. 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.

5. MEDLINE -1964 a database with bibliographic records from journal articles
More than 25 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.

6. https://webmeeting. nih. gov/p6fgwlim1sd/

10. More valuable data in MEDLINE records https://www. nlm. nih
MeSH terms
Publication types
Substance name
Controlled bibliographic data

11. PubMed - basic search

12. Search results - Display settings

13. 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”
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

14. Filters Manage Filters ….. Properties - Subsets: MEDLINE records
Create custom filter „in process”,

15. Author information My NCBI – NCBI Site Preferencies – Author Information - On

16. 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
Eurpean PCM
Search details
Recent activities
PubMed Commons
etc

17. Advances Search

18. Advances Search

19. Collections ….

20. Starting at MESH

24. Other Searching possibilities

27. Clinical Queries

29. PMC PubMed Central 3,3 M full text articles

30. PMC - PubMed Central

31. PubMed Central - PMC

32. PMC –licensz kérdések https://creativecommons.org/about/license

33. 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…

34. http://www. slideshare

35. 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)

36. Type of publications

37. Clinical trial

38. Own database from the useful records

39. 2013 – PubMed Commons

42. PubMed Central - PMC

43. MedlinePlus – for everybody http://www. nlm. nih

47. Questions MEDLINE contains less records than PubMed. False True
The DOI number: /iovs
The article has an author called Szel A .
True
True

48. Questions
The Cardiology main MESH term, subheading „trends” will result how much „clinical trial” type publications?
doi: /CIRCULATIONAHA
Type of the publication:
Review article letter
0-10
editorial

49. Questions
The correct DOI number of the article which has Vasas and Berhidi as authors, and was published in 2013 is: /
/OH….29653
/OH

50. Questions Child diseased with Ebola. Start the search in MESH.
How much review type publications about it in PubMed?
0-10

51. Thank you for you attention!