searching biomedical literature: hci-571/471
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Searching Biomedical Literature: HCI-571/471. Natalie Sturr 312-3565 [email protected]. Copy of PowerPoint. http://www.oswego.edu/~sturr. http://www.oswego.edu/library/. Research Guides by Subject. Research Guides by Subject Databases for journal articles - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Research Guides by Subject Research Guides by
Subject Databases for journal
articles Databases for
background articles Includes other resources Link off library home
page
Research Guides by Subject
Health & Wellness GuideGeneral/Multidisciplinary Databases
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Proquest Research Library
General/Multidisciplinary Databases Search on most specific topic Vary vocabulary to find more
information Ex: therapy / treatment
Vocabulary likely not controlled Combine search terms/concepts
Boolean Logic - AND, OR, NOT
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome AND Treatment
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome OR Treatment
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome NOT Treatment
Library Databases – Journal Articles Additional features
Narrow retrieval by publication type Academic or Scholarly Journals Magazines or Popular Journals
360 Link to Full Text To obtain article in another library database To request a copy through Interlibrary Loan
Cite Create entry or citation for a bibliography or list of
works cited
Interlibrary Loan Obtain copy of article from another library Link from 360Link to Full Text screen
Link on library home page
Health & Wellness Guide Biomedical Databases
MEDLINE with Full Text (via EBSCO)
PubMed
MEDLINE - history 1879 – Index Medicus 1964 as MEDLARS
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System
1971 – MEDLINE MEDLARS Online
1997 – PubMed MEDLINE available free on web
MeSH – Medical Subject Headings Thesaurus produced by NLM
National Library of Medicine Health-related and biomedical topics Used for:
Indexing Searching
Updated annually
MeSH – Medical Subject Headings Alphabetical Major Concepts Hierarchical / Trees
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/trees.html
Explode a term Search on entire “branch” of a tree
Qualifiers: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/topsubscope.html
MEDLINE - EBSCO - MeSH
Helpful to click ‘Term Contains’
Input your topic
MEDLINE - EBSCO - MeSH
Click next to heading to call up list of qualifiers
Click if you want term to be a Major Concept
Click ‘Search Database’ to execute the search
MEDLINE - EBSCO - MeSH
Click on term to go to Tree view
PubMed- MeSH#1 - Search topic in MeSH
#2 - Select qualifiers, if major topic, whether to explode term
#3 – Click: Add to search builder#4 – Click: Search PubMed
MEDLINE / MeSH MEDLINE with Full Text (via EBSCO)
Available from libraries
PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ http://www.pubmed.gov http://www.pubmed.org
Ask a Librarian Reference librarian
At Research Help Desk Phone: 312-4267 Text: 315-878-8237 [email protected] Chat – 24x7
With Penfield or other librarian Ask a Librarian link on library web
pages
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Searching Biomedical Literature
Natalie Sturr312-3565
[email protected]://www.oswego.edu/~sturr
http://www.oswego.edu/library
Search Examples Treatments (drug and other therapies)
for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Use of anti-inflammatory drugs for
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Computer use and Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome