Transcript PubMed : new features, favorite features, and search tips

Celebrating National Medical
Librarians Month 2005!
PubMed : What’s New and
Let’s Review
October 27, 2005
Beth A. Lewis, MLS
Talbot Research Library
Today you will learn…
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How to save a search strategy
How to set up an Auto Alert
How to sort results using filters
Full Author name searching and First
Author Searching
Setting up an RSS Feed for a PM search
How to delete search statement
numbers from History
And ….
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Easy ways to Limit search results
The neatest way to print search results
How to avoid printing/saving duplicates
of search results
The format that you must use to import
to EndNote
How to determine if TRL owns a title
And all this, too
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How to order interlibrary loans directly
from PM
An easy way to find articles like one that
you love
Searching and browsing the bookshelf
AND MORE!
MEDLINE? PubMed? What’s the
difference ?
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Medline indexes journal literature in:
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It goes back to 1966
 Medicine
 Nursing
 dentistry
 Veterinary medicine
 Health care system
 Preclinical sciences
What’s the difference?
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PubMed includes MEDLINE and more!
• OLDMEDLINE – medical literature from 1950-
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1965
“out-of-scope” citations
“in-process” citations
Journals available in PubMed Central not
included in MEDLINE
Links – to full-text , to related records, to
books in the “bookshelf” and more!
What’s NOT included in
PubMed?
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Not all journals are included
Meeting abstracts are not included
Books and book chapters are not indexed
PubMed does not supply full-text of journal
articles; some publishers supply some full-text
to the world for free but most full-text to
journals is supplied by the Talbot Research
Library by subscription
PubMed is popular and growing...
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Will add 600,000 citations this year
There are over 15.5 million citations in
PubMed
155 journals have been added in the last
year
68,000,000 searches were done in
March 2005 as compared to 59,200,000
in March 2004
Part 1: What’s New?
What’s New?
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My NCBI replaces Cubby and allows
customization
Filters added
Highlighting added
Spell-check added
Autocomplete added for authors and
journals
New Author search features – Full Author
Name search and First Author search
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) added
OLDMEDLINE goes back to 1950
“My NCBI” replaces “Cubby”
Save search strategies
 Update search strategies
 Generate automatic e-mail updates
for saved search strategies
 Choose filters to sort your search
retrieval by categories
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My NCBI on the PubMed screen
Step 1 - Register
Sign in screen
Manually update or delete a search
Filters-quickly and easily sort
search results
Filters –sorts search results
To add a filter for Fox Chase Holdings, Browse and then select Libraries
Click on My Selections to see your filters
Saving searches and Auto Alerts
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Run a search in PubMed
Make sure that the last search statement ties
everything together
Click on Save Search hyperlink (results
page)
You will be prompted to sign in if not already
signed in
Fill in the requested info on the screen
Click OK when finished
PubMed adds Highlighting!
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Highlighted terms include your search
terms as well as “mapped to”
subject terms, and truncated words
or phrases
Highlighting must be turned on via
My NCBI and is active only when you
are signed into My NCBI
How to Activate Highlighting
Sign in to My NCBI
 Click User Preferences on sidebar
 Select a color (yellow, green, plum,
or aqua) and click OK
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Highlighting a phrase
Searched mad cow disease –
why is this highlighted?
My NCBI – Facts and Review
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My NCBI allows you to store searches
that can be updated manually or sent
automatically
My NCBI can have only one e-mail
address
E-mail address can be changed –
click on User Preferences on the My
NCBI sidebar
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Subject searches, author searches,
and journal title searches can be
saved and updated
Saved strategies can be changed to
automatic alerts by clicking on
Details on the saved search screen
Saved search strategies can not be
edited
More My NCBI
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Search statement numbers can be used in
saved searches
Highlighting can be turned on or off via
User Preferences
My NCBI will allow you to choose up to 5
filters (Review is a default)
The “hammer and wrench icon” will link you
to My NCBI Filters
RSS Feeds – just added!
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RSS is a web standard for the delivery of news
and other frequently updated content
RSS provides another way of keeping up-todate
An RSS reader is required
Multiple PubMed searches can be set up for
RSS feeds; PM RSS feeds will include citations
retrieved since the last time you connected to
your RSS reader
How to set up RSS Feed
Run search
Then choose
RSS Feed
from the
Send to
Pull-down
menu
Name your search and limit the number of items
to be displayed by each feed
After you click Create Feed, the system will
generate
an XML icon
Click This!
Now you see the XML screen. Copy the URL from the
address line and paste this into the “subscribe” form in your
RSS reader
After subscribing
successfully
to a PubMed RSS
feed,
You will receive daily
messages in your
RSS reader
Setting up an RSS Feed for
PubMed
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Install an RSS reader
Perform search in PubMed; use “send
to” dropdown to send to RSS Feed
Name your search then click “create
feed”
Click on orange XML icon
Paste URL into your RSS reader
First Author Search
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Retrieve papers where a specified
author appears as the first author
Added to Single Citation Matcher
Added to Limits
Added to Index
Designated with [1au] field tag
From
Limits
page
From
Preview/ Index
page
Single Citation Matcher
Enhancements added this Spring
 First
author searching
 Autocomplete for Journal
Titles
 Autocomplete for Author
names
Full Author Names now
searchable!
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Full author names have been added to
PM records starting with 2002
publications
Full author names are added to PM from
journals that publish full author names as
they are published in the original journal
article
Full Author Indexing in a PubMed Record
When Browsing full names in the Index,
Must enter last name first
Full Author Name field added to Limits!
Notes on Full Name Author
Searching
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Full Author Names cannot be used with
the first author name search feature
This feature limits retrieval to
publications from 2002 forward and to
journals that publish full author names
You can use natural or inverted order
with full author names, i.e. michael
nance or nance michael
More on Full Author Names
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A comma is not necessary unless to
distinguish last from first names, i.e. ryan,
james
Honorifics, i.e. Ph.D, are never included
Do not use the truncation symbol (*) if you
don’t know the middle initial
Include a space between names that have
multiple middle initials, Peter F H Schwab
Do not include periods
Author Search Links added to
PubMed
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Author names displayed in PubMed’s
Abstract and Citation formats have
become “search Links” to author
searches
Place your cursor over an author’s name
and click to search for citations for that
author
More on Author Searching…
Note this!
when using author search links – if the
author has published using another form
of his name you won’t retrieve this, i.e.
middle initials
Spell-check added
Part II – Features and Basic
Searching Review
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Basic Searching
History
Limiting results
Displaying / saving search results
Clipboard
Single Citation Matcher
Book Shelf
Links
MEDLINE? PubMed? What’s the
difference ?

Medline indexes journal literature in:

It goes back to 1966
 Medicine
 Nursing
 dentistry
 Veterinary medicine
 Health care system
 Preclinical sciences
What’s the difference?

PubMed includes MEDLINE and more!
• OLDMEDLINE – medical literature from 1950-
•
•
•
•
1965
“out-of-scope” citations
“in-process” citations
Journals available in PubMed Central not
included in MEDLINE
Links – to full-text , to related records, to
books in the “bookshelf” and more!
What’s NOT included in
PubMed?



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Not all journals are included
Meeting abstracts are not included
Books and book chapters are not indexed
PubMed does not supply full-text of journal
articles; some publishers supply some fulltext to the world for free but most full-text to
journals is supplied by the Talbot
Research Library by subscription
PubMed is popular and growing...
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Will add 600,000 citations this year
There are over 15.5 million citations in
PubMed
155 journals have been added in the last
year
68,000,000 searches were done in
March 2005 as compared to 59,200,000
in March 2004
Basic Searching
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Type a word or phrase in the search box
and hit GO
Combine search terms with connectors
or “operators” : AND, OR, NOT
These connectors must be typed in
upper case letters!
History
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Build and control your searches by
adding, combining, grouping and/or
deleting search statements
TIP! Right click your mouse on a search statement
number for more options!
Some easy ways to Limiting
Search Results
Detail box
 Limits – some that tend to be
ignored
• Date range
• Subsets
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Change text word to title word!
Limits
Range in publication date
Limit to a subset
Don’t forget to use your filters!
Useful subsets
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Core clinical Journals
Cancer
Nursing Journals
TIP! In order to search the pre-1966
literature you must choose the
OLDMEDLINE subset
Managing your search results
 Display
format
 Number of results to show
 Options to “capture” your
desired results
Use the pulldown arrow
next to
Display to
change
format from
Summary
TIP! Display in Abstract format to see
the full-text links!
TIP! Use MEDLINE to save citations to import into ENDNOTE!
Tired of flipping pages? Use Show to put all of
your reference on one page!
Options to capture your results!
Send to Text
 Send to File
 Send to E-mail
 Send to Clipboard
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Tip! Send to Text for a clean print out
E-mail search results to yourself or to a colleague
NOTE: Only one e-mail address can be used at a time
Clipboard
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Perform multiple searches and keep
desired references in one place
No duplicates!
Select format, print, save, and e-mail
search results
Select results and then choose Send to Clipboard
NOTE! If you do not select then ALL results will go to the
Clipboard
The numbers of selected citations turn green; message indicates number
of citations sent to the Clipboard
To get to results sent to Clipboard, click on the Clipboard tab
Order your interlibrary loan articles via Loansome Doc
Tip!
 Ordering
interlibrary loan
articles via Loansome Doc will
save you a step!
Single Citation Matcher
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Find missing parts of references
Verify references
Prepare bibliographies
Produce tables of contents
Links
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Holdings Links
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Related Articles
Links
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Links to
Bookshelf
1. Connect to PubMed via the Library’s homepage
2. Display in Abstract format
Please Note!
Not all journals participate in
linkout!
 If you don’t see a link to a journal in
PM, be sure to check the Journals
Holdings List (or WebCat) before
ordering it!!
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Related articles
Displayed in “rank” order, most to least relevant
Links to Books from the Bookshelf
Phrases become hypertext links to passages in the Bookshelf
You can access the Bookshelf by selecting Books
from the pulldown menu
Search the entire collection
or select a book to search or browse
Print this section using your browser’s print function
Browse a book’s TOC
Full Detailed Contents
We can help you…
Search Service…no
fee!
 Help with strategy
 Set up Auto Alerts
 Individual / small group
search training
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