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PubMed Tutorial
Online Literature Sources for Evidence-Based Medicine
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Barbara Folb
Patricia Friedman
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Searching MEDLINE on PubMed
When working through this tutorial, it is helpful to open PubMed in a separate browser window, and work through the examples given. A link is given on each section page in the green bar to the left of the screen that opens this window.
Table of Contents
Overview of PubMed
- Creation of PubMed
- Subjects, Databases Included
- Literature Types Included
- Record Content
- Links to Genetic Resources
- Limits of Full Text Linkage
Constructing a Simple Subject Search in PubMed
- Formulating a Question
- Entering a simple search
- Details (how PubMed interprets a search statement)
- Saving Selected Articles to the Clipboard
- Viewing Search Results and Changing the View
- Saving and Printing Results
Modifying a Search
- Using Limits
- Using Related Articles
- Turning off Automatic Term Mapping
- Phrase Searching
- Using Truncation
- Use of Field Tags
Creating a More Involved Search
- Searching Specific Fields
- Using Boolean Operators in the Search Box
- Combining searches using History and Boolean Operators
- MeSH and the MeSH Browser
- Using Preview/Index
Using the Cubby to Save and Reuse Searches
Using PubMed Features
- Citation Matcher
- Journal Browser
- Clinical Queries
Getting From PubMed to Full Text articles
- LinkOut
- Ordering Documents through Loansome Doc
Using the Books Link
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