1. MEDLINE for Medical Research Juliet Ralph and César Pimenta Hilary Term 2007

2. MEDLINE MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database in fields such as Medicine, Nursing, Allied health, Pre-clinical sciences etc. It contains over 13 million citations to journal articles, including reviews and clinical trials 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries Dating back to 1950, with daily updates

3. MEDLINE Records are indexed with MeSH headings MeSH terms provide a consistent way of retrieving information that uses different terminology for the same concept. Abstracts are included for more than 75% of the records

4. Different Interfaces In Oxford, MEDLINE runs from the OVID Web Gateway and PubMed Ovid: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/ PubMed: http://www.pubmed.govhttp://www.pubmed.gov

5. Advantages of OVID Web Gateway Guided through selections for a precise search based on MeSH headings and limits Links to full-text collections subscribed by OULS Same interface as other medical databases

6. Ovid Platform These medical and related databases are now available on Ovid: AMED – complementary medicine British Nursing Index Cinahl – nursing Embase – pharmacology Global Health – public health & tropical medicine HMIC – Health Management Information Consortium IBSS – International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Medline - medicine PsycInfo - psychology

7. Disadvantages of OVID Web Gateway Best results obtained by separate entry of search concepts and using the “Combine Searches” feature Users might find frustrating to have to examine the search closely in order to select relevant subject headings

8. Features of OVID Web Gateway Searching - Map Term to Subject Heading: Mapping finds relevant subject headings - Combine searches: Uses Boolean operators to combine the results of search statements - Limits: Restricts results to language, age groups, year of publication, etc. - Find citation: Useful for checking a faulty or incomplete reference Locating full-text articles: Follow the link “Tour Oxford Full Text” to check electronic availability

9. Features of OVID Web Gateway Viewing results: By selecting fields and clicking the Display button Printing, Emailing and Saving: The Results Manager is located at the end of every Results display page Export to RefWorks or other personal bibliographic management software Setting AutoAlerts to favourite data sets

10. Use PubMed To get free access anywhere on the Internet To get quick results with strategies automatically created for you

11. We are here to help Queries about electronic journals and databases, including access problems eresources@ouls.ox.ac.uk Radcliffe Science Library enquiries.rsl@ouls.ox.ac.uk Life Sciences and Medicine juliet.ralph@ouls.ox.ac.uk cesar.pimenta@ouls.ox.ac.uk

12. We welcome feedback You will get an e-mail with the online evaluation form in due course. Next WISER Science session: INSPEC for Physics and Engineering, Monday 5 Feb. 2007, 12.30 to 13.30 http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/information_skills/wiser

13. Sample search topic Look for some recent literature on snoring and other sleep- related breathing problems (such as sleep apnoea) in young children