Intro to PubMed and Egyptian knowledge bank search and use.

1. Databases Search
Mohamed Magdy Alhelaly
Damietta faculty of medicine, Al-Azhar University

2. Contents
• Reversing the process
• What are journals, publication, full-text, and indexing mean?
• Basic search concepts
• How to search PubMed
• How to search EKB
• Obtaining full-texts

3. Reversing the process

4. The journey of a piece of research
• Protocol
• Implementation of the planned methodology
• Results
• Writing the manuscript
• Submitting the manuscript to a medical journal
• Acceptance
• Publication of manuscript full-text and indexing in databases (free & paid)
• Search for the content
• Paper identification and citation

5. Searching basic tips
1. Use Boolean operators

6. 2. Use phrasal search if needed
“Hemolytic anemia” Vs hemolytic anemia
3. Use Truncation if needed
Hemoly* anemia, child*, Disease*
4. Build a search strategy
Research question and key words (synonyms)

7. Searching PubMed

8. Aspirin AND omeprazole AND peptic ulcer

10. Use clinical trial filter at the left

18. (Aspirin OR NSAID OR non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) AND
(omeprazole OR PPI OR proton pump inhibitors) AND peptic ulcer

24. Egyptian knowledge Bank
(EKB)
• There was no in campus
free access almost at all
universities!
• In 2016, Egyptian
government launched the
project
• Only Egyptians live in Egypt
can access

38. How to obtain a full-text
• Free PMC articles
• Open access journals
• Purchase articles!
• EKB access
• Ask a friend with journal access
• FB help groups

41. QUESTIONS!

42. Thank You!