Presentation by Karen Larsen at Mayo Clinic Conference Center in Second Life

1. PubMed & MedlinePlus: with Karen -
medical
medical & health information sources librarian!
2/20/13

2. TODAY’S FOCUS:
2 free Web resources from the National
Library of Medicine:
 PubMed – articles from medical journals
 MedlinePlus – consumer health information

3. What is PubMed?
PubMed:
 Use it to find articles from thousands of medical journals
 Updated daily
 Easy to advanced search capabilities
 Some of the articles are available full-text
 Set up alerts to let you know when new articles are
published
 Articles dated 1947 to present

4. PUBMED – INTERESTING FACTS
 Approx. 1.8 billion searches conducted in PubMed in 2011
 (J Am Med Inform Assoc 2013: 20:363)
 10,000-20,000 articles added each week
 (J Am Med Inform Assoc 2013: 20:363)
 Growth of database:
 1960: 94,449 articles/citations/references
 1970: 212,752
 1980: 272,588
 1990: 388,215
 2000: 486,856
 2010: 828,527
 (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/medline_cit_counts_yr_pub.html)

11. GETTING ARTICLES FROM PUBMED
 Some (very few) are free online
 Most would need to be obtained from a library
 Public library
 Medical/Hospital/University library

12. PUBMED HELP

13. What is MedlinePlus?
MedlinePlus:
 Use it to find reliable consumer health information:
 Medical encyclopedia
 Pamphlets from health organizations such as American Heart
Association, American Diabetes Association
 Drug information
 Organizations that support various diseases/health conditions
 Clinical trials
 Videos, online tutorials & other cool tools!
 Constantly updated

29. IMPORTANT LINKS
 PubMed:
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
 MedlinePlus
 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

30. QUESTIONS?