Limit by Publication Date

In this Published in the Last… Limits, we have entered 1999 in the date range.

Limit by Publication Date

Here is the Publication Date from 1999 Limits for TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV – a total of 5375 records.

Limit by Publication Date

In this Published in the Last… Limits, we have entered 2005 to 2008 in the date range.

Limit by Publication Date

Here is the Publication Date from 2005 to 2008 Limits for TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV – a total of 2601 citations.

Limit by Language

This is the Language Limits search box

Limit by Language

Here is the English language Limits for TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV.

Note that there are 2545 HINARI citations and 1257 Free full text citations.

Limit by Vietnamese

Here is the French language Limits for TUBERCULOSIS that resulted in a total of 11890 citations.

Limits by AIDS subset

In Subsets Limits, we have checked the AIDS tag.

Limit by Subset

Here is the AIDS Subsets Limits for TUBERCULOSIS. – a total of 12537 citations.

Limiting by ageThis is the Ages Limits search box. You can check only one option.

Limiting by age

Here is the All Child: 0-18 years Age Limits for TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV.

This search results in 2268 citations.

Types of Article

This is the Type of Article Limits search box.

Type of Article

Here is the Randomized Controlled Trial Type of Article Limits for MALARIA AND BEDNETS – a total of 27 articles.

Limit to Fields in PubMed

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To Limit a term to a specific field in the record, select an option from the drop down menu under All Fields.

We now will search for TDR in the Affiliation Limits field. This should now limit our search to articles where the first author listed has TDR in the address.

Limit to Fields in PubMed

We can see from the results page that TDR is listed as part of the Affiliation. The Limit used is also highlighted on the information bar below the query box.

Limit to Fields in PubMedWe can see from the results page that TDR is listed as part of the Affiliation.

Limits page 1

We now will use new Advanced Search option that enables you to use Limits with other PubMed features.

Note that you can access Advanced Search from Limits, History or the other PubMed options listed above.

We have activated the Advanced Search option that displays the Most Recent Queries History.

In this exercise, we will use Search #3 – a combination of the tuberculosis AND Africa and HIV AND Africa searches. By using Limits, we will refine this search.

For search #3, we have added the English Languages and Practice Guidelines and Review Type of Article and the All Child: 0-18 years Ages Limits.

The results of this Advanced Search are 57 citations with 5 Free full text and 27 HINARI accessible citations.

In the beige box, the Limits applied are listed. You also can use the Preview/Index, Details and Citation Search options in Advanced Search.

This is the end of Module 4 Part 2.

There is a workbook to accompany this part of the module. The workbook will take you through a live session covering the topics included in this demonstration with working examples.

Updated 02 2009