1. PubMed/Using Limits (module 4.2)

2. Instructions - This part of the: course is a PowerPoint demonstration intended to introduce you to PubMed/Limits. module is off-line and is intended as an information resource for reference use. MODULE 4.2 PubMed/Using Limits

3. Table of Contents Limits by author Limits by journal Limits by publication date Limits by language Limits by subset Limits by age Limits by publication type Limits by title/abstract Limits by affiliation

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

5. HINARI Log-In 2 We will need to insert our HINARI User Name and Password in the Login box and click on the Login button.

6. Main HINARI webpage From the main HINARI webpage, we can access PubMed from the Find articles link in the body of the webpage. Click on Search for HINARI journal articles through PubMed (Medline).

7. PubMed homepage Welcome to the PubMed Homepage. Part 2 of the tutorial will look at using the Limits function to narrow down our search results by different parameters.

8. PubMed query box If we type in a search statement such as tuberculosis in the Search box, we will get a large number of records in our results.

9. PubMed search results The tuberculosis search will return almost 160000 hits. This is too many to view in any meaningful way. This includes almost 17000 HINARI citations and 13500 Free full text citations (07 2007).

10. Limit Link We can begin to narrow this down by looking at the Limits function.

11. Limits page 1 Here is the Limits page. Searches can be limited by restricting terms to fields or setting specific date or record tagging parameters.

12. Limits page 2

13. Limit by Author(s) This is an Author name search for Ribeiro.