There was a posting on the ISIResearch soft list serv this morning about a
recent change in NLM's pubmed site. Here is the brief instructions for
adding cites to your ref software. Good Luck.
Elaine C. Alligood, MLS
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Dear EndNote Users,
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* * * IMPORTANT NOTICE * * *
PubMed is in the process of making some changes to their web site, which in
turn have caused or may cause problems with the CONNECTION feature in
EndNote (this problem exisits in Reference Manager and ProCite as well). At
this time, you may experience problems connecting to PubMed. Our
programmers are diligently investigating the problem and are in contact with
PubMed to find ways to rectify the situation. We will notify you as soon as
we have any new announcements to make.
In the meantime, you can still get data from PubMed into your EndNote
database by doing the following:
1) Using your web browser, go to the following URL:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
2) Search for your references.
3) Click on the "Summary" pop-down list, and choose "MEDLINE" as your
format.
4) Click on "Display" to put your data into the 2-letter tagged Medline
format.
5) Click on Save, and save it as a TEXT file to your hard drive (Remember
where on your hard drive you save it!)
6) Start Reference Manager, create a new database (to test how it works)
and then import the text file using the "PUBMED (NLM)" import filter.
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Sincerely,
ISI ResearchSoft
Berkeley, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeanne Lenzer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:03 PM
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Subject: Re: PubMed for comprehensive systematic searches?
I like the new NLM Gateway with one major exception - I can't figure out how
to download the citations into my reference manager like I used to - YIKES!
Does anyone know if the new one has that capability. I got lost asking NLM
directly - (the first two staffers couldn't give me an answer.
jeanne lenzer
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 7:24 PM
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Subject: Re: PubMed for comprehensive systematic searches?
I have done a comparison of OVID and PubMed looking at systematic reviews
of RCTs across all subjects.
PubMed retrieved a larger number of references than OVID. However, all of
the most relevant references found on OVID were also on PubMed.
Note: PubMed has recently produced an improved tutorial on the site,
pointing out the "limits' section which allows searching on "RCTs",
Practice Guidelines, etc
Sheelagh Noonan BA Dip Lib
Medical Knowledge Architect
AusDoctors.net
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Sue Furness
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health (EBH) is the Subject: PubMed
for comprehensive
integration of individual systematic searches?
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03/28/01 11:49 AM
Please respond to Sue
Furness
I have had a request to teach comprehensive systematic searching to a
group who have access to Medline- PubMed version only - and the Cochrane
CD. My personal experience is that Ovid (and/or) Silverplatter platforms
for Medline are much easier to search in a comprehensive systematic way. I
would be interested to know the opinions of list members on the usefulness
of PubMed in this context, and any publications on this issue.
Bottom Line:Given that comprehensive systematic searches are what they need
to do, is PubMed adequate/feasible?
Sue Furness
Effective Practice Institute, Division of Community Health
University of Auckland
ph 373 7599 x 6333
fax 373 7624
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