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Frederick Mars Untalan
Doing Literature Search
Records, Files, Data
To Know:
Value of
research
What to search
How to search
Value of research
What to search
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National Library of Medicine The world’s largest biomedical library
NLM is the producer of:MEDLINE PubMed MedlinePlus.gov
Visit the National Library’s Home Page at:http://www.nlm.nih.gov
PUBMED
Provides free access to medical database Links to full-text articles Provides Advanced search Links to related articles and provides
discovery tools for other data that may be of interest.
PubMed’s Sponsor
Introduction to the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) The National Network of Libraries of Medicine®
NN/LM Web site: http://nnlm.gov
What’s in PubMed Most PubMed records are MEDLINE citations. Other records include those in different stages of
processing (including records provided directly from the journal publisher) but destined to be MEDLINE citations.
A relatively small number of records that are included in PubMed but not selected for MEDLINE.
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What is MEDLINE?
The world’s largest biomedical database
MEDLINE covers:MedicineDentistryVeterinary ScienceNursingOther Biological Sciences
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What is MEDLINE?
4,800 journals are indexed
Covers all aspects of biosciences and healthcare
Database of 14+ million journal citations
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What is MEDLINE?
Covers 1966 to the present
Coverage worldwide, 85% are in English
76% have abstracts
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is NLM's bibliographic database of citations and abstracts, currently > 5,600 biomedical journals
All citations in MEDLINE are assigned
MEDLINE Citations PubMed provides access to MEDLINE Scope of MEDLINE includes such diverse topics
as microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology and environmental health. The categories covered in MEDLINE include everything from anatomy, organisms, diseases, psychiatry, and psychology to the physical sciences.
contains over 17 million references dating back to 1948.
New material is added Tuesday through Saturday.
How to search
MeSH
National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus.
consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.
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What is MeSH?
MeSH – Medical Subject HeadingsControlled vocabulary terms
○ Brain Edema, Otitis Media, Myocardial Infarction
Practice Exercises Introduction to
MeSH
1. If you search the term “phytotherapy” in PubMed, what terms are you also searching?
ANSWER
1. If you search the term “phytotherapy” in PubMed, what terms are you also searching?
Aromatherapy and Eclecticism
2. How far back can you search with the MeSH term, “Proteomics?”
ANSWER
2. How far back can you search with the MeSH term, “Proteomics?” To 2003. For 2000-2002, use
Proteome.
3. What ages are included by the term, “Child?”
ANSWER
3. What ages are included by the term, “Child?” 6 to 12 years.
4. What is the preferred MeSH term for “chewing?”
ANSWER
4. What is the preferred MeSH term for “chewing?” Mastication.
HOW TO ACCESS PUBMED
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How do I access PubMed?
Directly at: http://pubmed.gov
Or, National Library of Medicine’s homepage: http://www.nlm.nih.gov
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PubMed Screen Layout
Feature Tabs
Query Box aka Search Box
Blue Sidebar
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PubMed.gov Translates lay terms into medical subject
headingsHeart Attack into Myocardial Infarction
Links to selected free articles through publishers’ web sites
Most articles are written for health professionals
BOOLEAN
Boolean Strategies
- If you are retrieving too many records on your topic, try adding another search term with the connector AND.
Boolean Strategies
If you are retrieving too few records on your topic, try adding another search term with the connector OR.
Boolean Strategies
If you are retrieving too many records on an unrelated topic, try eliminating a word with the connector NOT.
Truncation & Wildcards To increase the number of hits retrieved, you might
consider using a truncation symbol. Truncation will pick up variations of a word stem. Truncation symbols vary, depending on the database.
e.g., critic* will find critic, critics, criticism, critical, etc.
The wildcard symbol can be used to replace one letter in a word. This will instruct the computer to do a search and match all letters in the word and use any letter to replace the wildcard symbol.
e.g., Wom?n will retrieve records with woman and women.
Basic Searching
Quotation Marks“ “
Requires words to searched as a phrase, in the exact order you type them.
Common Words Usually Ignored + or “ ” to search them
Search which versus that.Only versus is searched on. Which and that are ignored. To require common words to be searched: +which versus +that ”which versus that”
Excluding -word -“phrase in quotes”
“acute pancreatitis” diet –cat –dog –“pancreatic cancer”
Basic Searching
OR allows more than one term
allows pages with at least one of the terms
OR requires at least one of the terms joined by it to appear somewhere in the document, in any order. “abdominal pain” OR blacks ear OR nose OR throat
The more words you enter connected by OR, the more documents you get. Broadens the search..
USES: o The OR operator is generally used to join similar, equivalent, or synonymous concepts. "global warming" OR "greenhouse effect" Abdomen Pain
Basic Searching
AND (default)
is the small overlap where both terms occur
AND is the default and only needs to be typed if you are using other Boolean operators with ( ). Ex.infopeople training is logically the same as infopeople and training
The more words you enter connected by AND, the fewer documents you get. All your words will be searched on
USES: o The AND operator is generally used to join different kinds of concepts, different aspects of the question. o "global warming" AND "sea level rise" AND california
Abdomen Pain
Basic Searching
AND NOT
excludes pages that mention PAIN, even if they also mention ABDOMINAL
Excludes documents containing whatever follows it. The AND NOT operator is generally used after you have performed a search, looked at the results, and determined that you do not want to see pages containing some word or phrase.
USES: • The AND NOT operator should be used with
extreme caution, because it eliminates the entire page, and some pages may be of value to you for other information they contain. I almost never use and not for this reason.
o "global warming" AND "sea level rise" AND NOT california - The first two terms must be somewhere and any page containing california will be thrown out.
Abdomen Pain
Basic Searching
NEAR
dogs NEAR cats
requires both terms, like AND, with the added requirement that they be within 16 words of each other
Requires the term following it to occur within a certain proximity of the preceding word in the search. In Exalead.com, NEAR requires the terms to be within 16 words of each other in either direction. Joining words by NEAR gives you fewer documents than AND, because it requires the words to be closer together.
USES: o The NEAR operator is used when you want to require that certain terms appear in the same sentence or paragraph of the document. o "global warming" NEAR "sea level rise" - Requires the two phrases to occur within 16 words of each other, in either direction.
Basic Searching
( ) parentheses:
"Nesting"
Require the terms and operations that occur inside them to be searched first. This is called "nesting."
Parentheses MUST BE USED to group terms joined by OR when there is any other Boolean operator in the search. o "global warming" AND "sea level rise" AND (california OR "pacific coast*") - Requires first two terms somewhere in all documents, and either california or pacific coast. • Parentheses also MUST BE USED with NEAR:o ("global warming" NEAR "sea level rise") AND (california OR "pacific coast*") - Requires sea level rise to be within 16 words of global warming; the rest can be anywhere in the pages. The parentheses guarantee that the effect of near stops with sea level rise.
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Searching PubMed
Let us use this search:
“I was exposed to asbestos for years in school. Can that cause gastrointestinal cancer?”
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Entering Your Search Terms Enter terms: asbestos gastrointestinal cancer
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How Does PubMed Interpret What You Type in the Box?
PubMed uses Automatic Term Mapping and maps to:
Medical Subject Headings – medical termsPhrasesAuthor Name – lastname initial(s), e.g., smith j,
smith jaJournal Titles – full journal title, MEDLINE
abbreviation, ISSN
How do you think PubMed searched your terms?
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The Details tab
The Details tab
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When to Limit?
There are many reasons for refining a search strategy. You may want to:
Exclude foreign language titlesLook for articles published within a certain
timeframeRetrieve articles that focus on women or
perhaps just children
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A quick glance at the results….
Square brackets
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The Limits tab
Limits tab
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Working with Results Citations display in batches of 20 with
most recent additions on top.
Use the check boxes to select multiple citations to view
Click on icons for more information, such as the abstract
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A Closer Look at Starting a Search
Enter search terms here and then click on Go.
Add Limits like date, language, publication type, and more.
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Related Articles
Related Articles
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Links to LinkOut
LinkOut
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The Clipboard tab Lets you keep track of the good ones while
you are still searching
How to:#1: Check the citations to keep#2: Use the Send pull-down menu to select
Clipboard#3:Click on Send.
Will keep up to 500 records for 8 hours!
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Are there other ways to limit your search?
Add additional terms to query boxcopd air pollution
Use Boolean ConnectorsAND, OR, NOT
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Combination Searching Let us use the search:
“I am looking for an article from a few years ago (maybe 4-5 years ago) by Dr. Keys
about cervical cancer treatment. It was published in the New England
Journal of Medicine.”
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Combination Searching PubMed uses Automatic Term Mapping
and maps the search terms as:
keys keys[All Fields]
cervical cancer "cervix neoplasms" [MeSH Terms]
new england journal of medicine "N Engl J Med"[Journal]
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Advanced Searching
Let us use this search:
“My neighbor had a stroke. I understand that Dr. Chin has done research on the neurological aspects
of this and it was published in the journal Neurology.”
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Preview/Index tab Preview the number of search results
before displaying the citations
Refine searches by adding one or more terms one at a time
Add terms to a strategy from specific search fields
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Preview/Index tab
To Know:
Value of
research
What to search
How to search
Frederick Mars Untalan
Doing Literature Search
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