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PubMed and Other NLM Resources

CE Course -10th European Conference for Medical and Health Libraries, September 12, 2006

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PubMed

• Refresher

• Exercises

• What’s new

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PubMed – What’s new

• AbstractPlus• Limits• My NCBI• Quick Tours• Search Links• Printer friendly format

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PubMed

Bits & Pieces:

• Different languages http://babelmesh.nlm.nih.gov/

• Creating a Web Link to the Entrez Databases – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/linking.html

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Access to full text - LinkOut

1. free full text [sb]

2. LinkOut - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/

3. Outside Tool

Plus

HINARI

http://www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/

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MeSH – Medical Subject Headings

Basic informationControlled vocabulary, revised annually, major headings

MeSH Database http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=mesh

MeSH Browser http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

MeSH Tree Structure

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MeSH

Four major components:

1. Descriptors – main headings

2. Subheadings - qualifiers

3. Supplementary concepts chemical/substance names

4. Publication types

Plus:

CAS Registry Number / EC Number

Age Groups

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Clinical Queries

• Clinical Study Category

• Systematic reviews– http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_subsets/

sysreviews_strategy.html

• Medical Genetics Searches

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OldMedline http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases_oldmedline.html

• Subset of PubMed – oldmedline [sb]

• Consists of:– Cumulated Index Medicus (CIM)

– Current List of Medical Literature (CLML)

• 1950-1965

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TOXNET http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/

• TOXLINE http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxlinfs.html

• ChemIDplus - dictionary

• PubMed / Subset Toxicology (tox [sb])

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• Journals Database

• Single Citation Matcher

• Consumer Health – MedlinePlus

• PubMedCentral

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NLM Gateway - http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd• ”One-stop shopping" for several of the information

resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

NLM Catalog http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=nlmcatalog

• access to NLM bibliographic data for journals, books, audiovisuals, computer software, electronic resources and other materials