PubMed/Preview, Index

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PubMed/Preview, Index History Accessing
Full-Text Articles(module 4.4)



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MODULE 4.4 PubMed/Preview, Index History
Accessing Full-Text Articles

• Instructions - This part of the
• course is a PowerPoint demonstration intended to
  introduce you to PubMed/Preview, Index History
  accessing Full-Text Articles.
• module is off-line and is intended as an
  information resource for reference use.

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Table of Contents

• Using Preview/ Index in PubMed
• Using the search History in PubMed
• Accessing full text articles
• Full text article access problems

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HINARI Log-In 1
Before logging into PubMed, you must Login to
the HINARI website using the URL
http//www.who.int/hinari/.
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HINARI Log-In 1
Before logging into PubMed, you must Login to
the HINARI website using the URL
http//www.who.int/hinari/.
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HINARI Log-In 2
You will need to insert your HINARI User Name and
Password in the Login box and click on the Login
button.
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Main HINARI webpage
From the main HINARI webpage, we can access
PubMed by clicking on Search HINARI journal
articles through PubMed (Medline).
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Preview/Index 1
Click on the Preview/Index link below the query
box on the main PubMed page.
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Preview/Index 2
Preview/Index will show the last three search
terms.
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Preview/Index 3
For the last three results, you can view the time
of the search and number of results. If you
click on the Results hypertext link, you will go
the results of the search.
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Preview/Index 4
In this example we will query the index for the
term Zimbabwe. Click on the Index button.
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Preview/Index 5
Results of the Index query are displayed in the
box. Each occurrence of the term is listed with
the number of articles listed in parentheses.
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Preview/Index 6
To select from the list, click on each term as
required. To make multiple selections, hold down
the Ctrl key. Click on the AND, OR, NOT button to
send the term to the main PubMed query box.
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Preview/Index 7
For the example, we will chose Zimbabwe/Epidemiolo
gy(828) from the Index list.
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Preview/Index 8
Click on Go and we see that we have 828
articles (07 2007) with Zimbabwe/epidemiology in
the record.
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History 1
PubMed allows users to view previous searches
through the History page. To access this page,
click on the History link on the bar below the
main PubMed query box.
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History 2
To build a search using History, begin by putting
in your broadest search term. In this example, we
will use public health as our main concept.
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History 3
The result for the public health search is 3.6
million articles (07 2007). These can be viewed
as a search set by clicking on the History tab.
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History 4
On the History page, our first set is given a set
number identified by the symbol - in this
example it is 1. On the right hand side of the
page the number of articles is shown under the
Result column.
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History 5
We can now search for malaria as a second search
term from within the PubMed query box.
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History 6
As in the previous result, the malaria search can
also be viewed by returning to the History page.
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History 7
The malaria search has now been given a set
number 2. The number of articles in the set is
shown on the right-hand side of the page.
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History 8
To combine public health with malaria, we can use
the set numbers. To combine using AND, enter the
search statement 1 AND 2.
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Using the Options drop down menu, you also can
combine terms by entering your new search term,
clicking on a previous plus the AND option.
The current search term and the chosen will be
combined.
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History 9
We now have 15686 articles (07 2007) with the
concepts public health AND malaria. Click on the
link to return to History.