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In today's class, you will:
1. Learn what PubMed is.
2. Conduct searches with keyword and MeSH.
3. Access full-text articles retrieved from PubMed.
4. Apply limits to modify the searching.
5. Create personal MyNCBI account
What is PubMed?
--A database developed by the National Library of Medicine.
--A place to look up biomedical research publications.
--A free, searchable database.
--Accessible from all over the world
What is in PubMed?
-- Covers about 5200 medical journals
-- Contains references of the literature back to 1940s
-- Small part of health related articles from non-medical journals
-- But no book chapters or dissertations
Why not ?
-- Information is unspecified
-- No quality control
-- Inefficient and overwhelming
-- Limited full-text access
Medical Subject Heading
1. Articles are indexed using controlled vocabulary.
People over the age of 65 could be
-Elderly
-Senior Citizens
-Old
-Geriatrics
MeSH=Aged
3. Represent concepts found in the biomedical literature
Acetaminophen (tylenol)
Neoplasm (cancer)
Myocardial Infarction (heart attack)
Amblyopia (lazy eye)
4. Gives uniformity and consistency to the indexing of the biomedical literature
5. Use the concept terms to build your own
search strategy.
6. You will get more efficient search
results than keyword search.
MeSH
More Features
1. Subheadings:
-- specific aspects of the topics you are looking for
-- based on different topics you entered, the subheadings are different, too.
2. Limits:
-- Year of Publication: Can help you eliminate unwanted publication dates
-- Publication types (review, control trials, etc): Find only the publication types you want
-- Language: Locate articles written with language you do read
By Yunting Fu
Liaison & Outreach Librarian
University of Maryland
Tel: 410-706-8865
Email: yfu@hshsl.umaryland.edu
2. Official “term” to use when searching – do not need to worry about synonyms and alternative spellings