Introduction to PubMed@UCSF

Josephine Tan, MLISEducation and Information Consultant, Clinical SciencesJosephine.tan@ucsf.edu

Objectives

Describe the contents of the PubMed system

Perform a basic author search

Perform a basic subject search

Use limits to narrow a search

Use the Clinical Queries feature to search for clinical research in PubMed

Use the Display options

Print and download citations

What’s the difference between Medline and PubMed?

MEDLINE PUBMED

Produced by NLM(National Library of Medicine)

Produced by NCBI(National Center for Biotechnology Information)

Over 13 million references to the published journal literature

Over 19 million references to the published journal literature (includes all of MEDLINE)

Over 5,000 journal titlesIncludes all or part of HealthSTAR, AIDSLINE, CANCERLIT, SPACELINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HISTLINE

1966 to present 1950 (OLDMEDLINE) to present

Updated dailyContains unprocessed records from publishers, including pre-prints (in-process)

PubMed@UCSF

Special web address: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/db/pubmed/

- Links to UCSF full text subscriptions- Check whether Library owns a journal- Request articles not owned by UCSF

Boolean Operators

OR (use to join synonyms)– Vitamin C OR Ascorbic Acid

AND (use to combine concepts)– Vitamin C AND cancer

Tips & Tricks

Use [ti] to find a word or phrase in the article title

Use [tiab] to find a word or phrase in the title or abstract

Use “quotation marks” to find an exact phrase

Use an * to find variations of a word

(ex: evaluat* finds evaluate, evaluated, evaluation, evaluating, etc)

Exercise I

Look for randomized control trialsreporting on the use of inhalers by

teenagers with exercise-induced asthma

What is the MeSH term for inhalers?

Exercise II

Find articles on the prognosis of

heart murmurs in newborns

Hint: use Clinical Queries

Exercise III

Look for clinical trials or randomized controlled trials, published within the last 5 years in the core clinical journals, that focus on the use of beta blockers to treat coronary heart disease

What is the MeSH Term for beta blockers?