Library Database tutorial

1. Searching PubMed Introductory PubMed Tutorial Presenter: Mary Beth Foster Audience: Students, College of Medicine

2. PubMed Developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Contains over 5484 medical or related journals References over 20 million citations Frequently updated Articles indexed by subject experts Indexed with controlled vocabulary MESH [Medical Subject Headings]

4. Brainstorming

5. Building a plan

6. Boolean Operators

7. AND

8. OR

9. NOT

10. Limits

11. Article Type

12. Subsets

13. Sex

14. Age

15. Species

16. Text options

17. Languages

18. MESH terms

19. Medical Subject Headings

20. Automatic mapping in search results

22. Brainstorming 6 W’s Sample Search Topic Who What Where When Why hoW children Food allergies global Childhood onset Why/how do children develop food allergies? Is there a relationship between mother’s diet during pregnancy?

24. Group terms that go together

25. Identify Boolean operators to include or exclude terms AND

27. Subsets

28. Sex

29. Age

30. Species

31. Text options

32. LanguagesBuilding a Search Plan Review search terms. food allergies diet pregnancy children Determine whether to set Limits. Children can be omitted as a search term by setting Age Limit to 0 – 18. Limits

34. Use CAPS for AND, OR, NOT

35. Order is searched from left to right

36. Automatic phrase parsingSearch Tips Which option Would you Choose?

38. Search Option food AND allergies AND diet AND Pregnancy NOT asthma

41. Repeat Searches

42. View Search Query Translation

43. Look at

44. Limits

45. Filters

46. Related Citations

47. Advanced Search Options

48. Search Builder

49. Search History