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

2. 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 &
module is off-line and is intended as an information resource for reference use.

3. 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 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 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.

4. Logging on to HINARI 1
Before logging into PubMed, we can Login to the HINARI website using the URL

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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).

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

11. 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.

12. 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).

13. 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.

14. 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.

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

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. At the bottom of each citation in Abstract format , information about the Publication Types, MeSH Terms and Grant Support can be displayed. Click on the drop down menu to view this information.

21. We now view the Display Settings drop down menu for the Medline Format, 20 Items per Page and Recently Added Sort by options. To display click on the Apply box.

22. Note the listing of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms in the Medline option. These MeSH terms are assigned by the National Library of Medicine for the indexing in PubMed. The terms can be used to make searches broader or more precise.

23. We now view the Display Settings drop down menu for the Summary Format, 200 Items per Page and Recently Added Sort by options. To activate, click on the Apply box.

24. The larger listing of citations is useful in low-bandwidth situations.

25. We now view the Display Settings drop down menu for the Abstract Format, 50 Items per Page and Sort by Title options.

26. By using the Sort by Title option, this list of citations begins with A.

27. From the Send To drop down menu, we will be able to select the File, Collections, Order, Clipboard and options.

28. You must place check marks in the boxes to the left of the citations that you wish to send to File, Collections, Order, Clipboard and options.
If you do not place check marks in the boxes, the entire search will be sent to the option you choose.
Note how PubMed lists the # of citations you have checked.

29. From the Send To drop down menu, we will click on Create File, with the Abstract and Pub Date options. This will be a document to be downloaded from your Web Browser.

30. Open the file in Notepad and give it a. txt file extension
Open the file in Notepad and give it a .txt file extension. Click on Save File. You now can view this file with word processing software or Notepad.

31. We now view the text from a downloaded
We now view the text from a downloaded .txt file using the Send To File option.
You can save this file to the C:/ drive or a flash drive or a CD-Rom. Once saved, you can print the document.

32. From the Send To drop down menu, we have selected to a file, with the Summary and Recently added options. This will be a document to be sent to the address you entered as the recipient.

33. In the green message, PubMed has noted that an has been sent to the address you entered as the recipient.

34. From the Send To drop down menu, we have selected to send a citations to the Clipboard option. Note that 5 checked items will be sent to the Clipboard .

35. In case, we have not checked the boxes in any of the citations, the first 500 items will be added to the Clipboard.

36. The green message confirms that 500 items have be added to the Clipboard.

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In the Display Settings, a green Item in clipboard message is noted for all the items you have selected.
Also note the number of records that has been sent to the Clipboard .

38. To remove items from the Clipboard, click on Clipboard
To remove items from the Clipboard, click on Clipboard. The PubMed search will re-appear and, using the green hypertext links, you can Remove all items or Remove from clipboard individual citations.

39. The green message notes that 5 items have been removed from the Clipboard.
This is the end of Module 4 Part 1.
There is a workbook to accompany this part of the module. The workbook will take you through a live session covering the topics included in this demonstration with working examples.
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