Marc Guthoerl

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• Marc Guthoerl
• Vas utca 6
• Budapest
• marcmjl_at_hotmail.com

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The Topic
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• How do you reach PubMed ?

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Just enter

• http//pubmed.gov

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What is Pubmed?

• Search System
• PubMed is a free resource
• It is offered by the United States National
  Library of Medicine
• access to over 15 million citations from MEDLINE
  and additional life sciences journals.

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What's the Difference between MEDLINE and PubMed?

• MEDLINE is the largest component of Pubmed
• MEDLINE covers over 4,800 journals published in
  the United States and more than 70 other
  countries from 1966 to the present.

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Topics of MEDLINE
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• In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed also
  contains
• OLDMEDLINE for pre-1966 citations.
• Citations to articles that are out-of-scope (e.g
  astrophysics) from MEDLINE Journals
• Some more life science journals

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How can you search for articles ?
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1. Basic Search

• Simply enter your search topics (key concepts) -
  one or more terms - into the search box and click
  Go
• Example Find citations about bronchodilators for
  treating asthma in children.The key concepts are
  bronchodilators, asthma and children

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2. Doing an author search

• Enter the authors name in the format of last
  name followed by initials.
• Avoid punctuation
• Example jones k

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3. Doing a journal title search

• Enter in the search box one of the following
• full journal title (e.g., molecular biology of
  the cell)
• title abbreviation (e.g., mol biol cell)
• ISSN number, a standardized international code
  (e.g., 1059-1524)

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4. Searching by date

• 1. With Limits
• Click the Limits tab.
• You may limit your search to articles by choosing
  the date range from the pull-down menus.

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• Searching by a single date in the search box
• e.g. 1984/03/12 dp (date of Publication)

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• 3. Searching for a date range in the search box
• e.g. 19942006 dp

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Limit your searches

• full text or free full text
• age group
• gender
• humans or animals studies
• languages
• publication types
• dates
• and by other parameters

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That s the End, and now it s time to have fun
again