PubMed/Filters (Limits) (module 4.2)

MODULE 4.2PubMed/Filters

Instructions - This part of the:

course is a PowerPoint demonstration intended to introduce you to FILTERS

module is off-line and is intended as an information resource for reference use.

Table of Contents

Filters by publication date Filters by language Filters by age Filters by type of article Filters by text options Search field tags

Filters by affiliation Filters by journal Filters by author

Before logging into the Partner Publisher services websites, we will Login to the HINARI site using the URL http://www.who.int/hinari/

You need to enter your HINARI User Name and Password in the appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. To have access to the full text articles, you must properly sign in.

If you do not use the Internet Explorer Web browser, this slide will not appear (as of 01 April 2014). If you use Internet Explorer, you will continue to have a two-step login process.

Repeat the Login process on this 2nd page and you will be redirected to the HINARI Contents page.

Remember - If you fail to use the Login page, you will have a second option on the Content sub-page.

Once you are logged in to the HINARI Content page, access PubMed by clicking on Search inside HINARI full-text using PubMed.

From the initial (HINARI) PubMed page, we will run the HIV and pregnancy search and then apply various Filters.

PubMed Filters

After completion of a search, the default Filters are displayed in a left-column frame. We will apply different Filters to the results of the HIV and pregnancy search - a total of 14236 citations.

Initially we will apply the Publication dates filter. We have clicked on the 5 years option. This limits the search results to 3478. Note the check mark next to Publication Dates section. Also note clear icon. There is a Clear all option at the bottom of the page. If you do not clear your options, they will be applied to future searches.

In the Specify Custom Date Range filter, we have entered the first date of 2013 range to date (2013/01/01 to blank) and clicked on the Apply icon.

By using a 2013 01 01 Specify Custom Date Range filter, we have 639 citations for HIV AND pregnancy search. Below the results, there is the Filters activated line that includes the Clear all option.

The specific Filters Activated is noted with a check mark. We will click on the Clear option to remove this . You also can click on the specific filter.

We have cleared all the Filters and the results of the HIV and pregnancy search are the initial number of 14236 citations.

We have clicked on the Show additional filters link and now will check the Languages box and click on Show.

Displayed is the drop down menu for Languages filters. Note that English is the default language and more than one can be checked.

We now will investigate the Article types filters. The default types are displayed. By clicking on more…, you can display other options.

We have clicked on the more… option for Article types and opened the drop down menu. We will add Review and Practice Guidelines article types and click on Show.

In the Article types, we have clicked on the Practice Guidelines and Review options. The results of the HIV and pregnancy search are 2301 citations. Remember to clear these filters.

We have clicked on Show additional filters and the drop down menu has been displayed. We will add the Ages option by checking the box and clicking on Show.

By clicking on more… in the Ages filters, all the options are displayed. For the HIV and pregnancy search, we will check the Adolescent: 13-18 years and Young Adult:19-24 years boxes and click on Show. Once displayed, we will click on the new Ages filters.

Note how the two Ages filters have the check mark and HIV and pregnancy search is reduced to 3534 citations. Below the results, there is the Filters activated line that includes the Clear all option.

We will view one final additional set of filters by clicking the Search fields box and Show.

A new drop down menu is displayed. We will highlight the Affiliation option and click on Apply. After this filter is activated, we will type WHO in the PubMed search box and click on Search.

The results of the WHO affiliation search are 6176 citations. In the Abstract display option, we have clicked on the Author information link. Note the WHO affiliation of the authors.

We now will activate the journal Search field filter, enter emerging infectious diseases in the PubMed search box and click on Apply.

The results of the emerging infectious diseases journal affiliation search are 6630 citations. This search lists the total number of articles from this journal in PubMed. Remember to clear this Journal search field filter.

We now will activate the Author Search field filter, enter ribeiro in the PubMed search box and click on Apply.

The results of the ribeiro author search are 10530 citations. This search lists the total number of articles by all authors named ribeiro in PubMed.

To further filter this search, add the author’s initial(s). The results of the Ribeiro e author search are 465 citations.

The original HIV and pregnancy search has been displayed. We will discuss the Text availability filters.

In this example the Free full text available filter has been activated. The search results are 3320 citations. This lower number does not include any HINARI citations. Therefore, we recommend not using these filters.

• Reminder: While working with Filters, you probably noticed the line that Text availability Filter that has the Abstract, Free full text, Full text available options. By clicking on these options, you would filter your search to include all articles with abstracts or full text articles or those articles that are available as free full text by various publishers or those citations that have abstracts.

• Note: if you click only on Free full text and NOT Full text, your HINARI tab will be limited to only articles that are both free full text and HINARI – a significantly less #.

This is the end of Module 4.2.

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

Updates 2014 01