Transcript WISER Science

Beyond PubMed:
exploring other biomedical
databases
Linda Atkinson & Juliet Ralph
[email protected]
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In this session
•What is PubMed?
•Database overlap and coverage
•Embase, the “European Medline”
•BIOSIS: biology, life sciences
•Other biomedical databases
What is PubMed?
• A way of searching MEDLINE:
• U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
bibliographic database
• biomedicine and life sciences,
bioengineering, public health, clinical
care, and plant and animal science .
Medline
• Over 19 million references to journal
articles, including reviews and clinical
trials.
• Gathered from 4,600 biomedical journals
published in the USA and 70 other
countries.
• 1950 - present.
PubMed with Oxford links
• Use this version to get authenticated access
to Oxford's full-text (via the "Find it @ Oxford"
icon which appears in each record).
•www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?m
yncbishare=Oxford_HCL
• This is the link used on SOLO, Oxlip+ and our
library pages.
EMBASE
EMBASE differs from Medline in a couple of ways
• EMBASE has a particular focus on drugs &
pharmacology
• EMBASE covers a wider range of non- English
language journals
• To get the advantages of both Medline and
EMBASE use SCOPUS
SCOPUS
• Good coverage- especially in Medicine as it
covers both Medline and EMBASE
• It is a very large database covering 18,000 +
journal titles as well as some book series and
conferences
• Also links to Scientific web sites through SCIRUS
• It has an easy-to-use interface with useful addons such as citation tracker & journal analyzer
BIOSIS Previews
• Life sciences & biomedical research covering
pre-clinical & experimental research, methods
and instrumentation, animal studies, & more.
• 5000 journals
• Plus conferences, patents, and books
• 1926 - present
• Updated weekly
Access via
• Web of Knowledge
• …which also hosts Web of Science
• Science Citation Index (1945-present)
• Conference Proceedings Citation IndexScience (1990-present)
• Plus Medline!
• http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/
Other biomedical
databases
• AMED (Allied and Complementary
Medicine)
• Global Health
• PsycINFO (psychology)
• SportDiscus (sports science)
Clinical databases
• TRIP (Turning Research into Practice)
• evidence for clinical practice
• UpToDate
• authoritative answers to clinical questions
Cochrane Library
• a collection of databases that contain highquality, independent evidence to inform
healthcare decision-making.
• Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of
evidence on which to base clinical treatment
decisions
• Systematic reviews
All available on
• SOLO http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
• Or OxLIP+ (Oxford Libraries Information
Platform)
• http://oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.ac.uk
• Search for database name
Find it @ Oxford
Database overlap
•Compare journal title lists with
•JISC Academic Database
Assessment Tool (ADAT)
•www.jisc-adat.com/adat/home.pl
Here to help
• Health Care Libraries
• www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/hcl
• [email protected]
• Radcliffe Science Library
• www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/science
• [email protected]
Over to you
• Try an online tutorial from the list at
• www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/science/training/tutorials
• Or go to SOLO http://solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
• Search for a database, eg BIOSIS
• Click on Online Access
• Search on a topic of your choice