PubMed MESH database Literature Retrieval

1
PubMed MESH database Literature Retrieval

• Livia Vasas PhD
• www.lib.sote.hu
• Budapest, 10. October 2008.

2
(No Transcript)
3
Abbreviationsconnections

• MeSH Medical Subject Heading
• NLM National Library of Medicine
• NIH National Institutes of Health
• NCBI National Center for Biotechnology
  Information.
• NCBI belongs to NLM and NLM itself is a
  department of NIH.

4
The aim of this module

• Introduction to the Entrez portal
• plenty of searching possibilities (full text
  books, GENE database etc )
• MESH database
• to get more relevant records
• PubMed
• most important bibliographic medical database
• Record management - My NCBI
• Full text retrieval

5
(No Transcript)
6
(No Transcript)
7
(No Transcript)
8
(No Transcript)
9
(No Transcript)
10
(No Transcript)
11
(No Transcript)
12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14
(No Transcript)
15
(No Transcript)
16
Journal database
17
(No Transcript)
18
(No Transcript)
19
(No Transcript)
20
(No Transcript)
21
(No Transcript)
22
MEDLINE - Definition

• A MEDLINE database is the electronic counterpart
  of
• Index Medicus,
• Index to Dental Literature, and
• the International Nursing Index,
• taken care by NLM.
• MEDLINE is the most used medical bibliographic
  database.

23
TOPICS COVERED BY MEDLINE BASED ON NEARLY 5000
SCHOLAR JOURNALS (Journal Database)

• Medicine
• Nursing
• Dentistry
• Veterinary medicine
• Allied health
• Pre-clinical sciences

24
WHAT IS PUBMED?

• A MEDLINE has different accesses and platforms.
  The most known and popular one is PubMed, the web
  based database taken care by NLM.
• But other MEDLINEs OVID MEDLINE
• ProQuest MEDLINE,
• EBSCO MEDLINE etc

25
PubMed special features

• It can be accessed from everywere if the internet
  connection is available.
• Open access
• Special records (process.
• Up-dated daily

26
(No Transcript)
27
The records and the primary informationsrelated
articles- indexed for MEDLINE?
28
(No Transcript)
29
Limit possibilities

• author
• journal
• full text- abstracts
• dates
• gender
• human or animals

• Subsets
• journal groups
• topics
• type of Article
• ages

30
(No Transcript)
31
(No Transcript)
32
(No Transcript)
33
(No Transcript)
34
(No Transcript)
35
How to use Go to PubMed go to HELP
36
(No Transcript)
37
(No Transcript)
38
(No Transcript)
39
At the literature searching listen to the

• PubMed My NCBI usage
• MeSH thesaurus usage
• -----------------------------------------------
• You need TIME to think about the proper
  searching methods
• The electronic resources are expensive
  (databases, e-pariodicals)

40