MAKING THE MOST OF MEDLINE/PUBMED
2 November 2005, London
This full day workshop reviews the use of MeSH to search MEDLINE using PubMed, the free on line version of MEDLINE provided by the National Library of Medicine, NLM. The morning session is concerned with choosing MeSH headings to construct searches of the database and the afternoon session demonstrates the features of PubMed.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The course is of value to researchers and information specialists who regularly use MEDLINE to search for medical literature.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
By the end of the workshop the participants will be able to:
* use MeSH to construct effective MEDLINE searches
* limit searches by use of MeSH Subheadings, major or focus concepts, publication types, and tags
* use all the features of PubMed to effectively search MEDLINE
WORKSHOP LEADER: TONY MCCULLOCH
Tony, who is from the British Library Health Care Information Service has over 15 years experience using MEDLINE as both a searcher and an indexer. He is responsible for the indexing of the British journals included on the database, and indexes many of the articles himself.
PLACES ARE LIMITED TO: 18
RELATED WORKSHOP
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PROGRAMME
9.15 Registration and coffee
9.45 Welcome and introduction
10.00 Understanding Mesh, using the annotations
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Choosing and using subheadings
12.00 Publication Types
12.15 Search Tags
12.45 Lunch
1.30 Introduction to the features of:
PubMed
The Sidebar
The Features Bar
2.00 Limits
The MeSh Browser
The Singel Citation Matcher
Cubby
2.30 Using Preview/Index
2.45 Using the PubMed MeSH browser
3.00 Tea
3.15 Practical Session
4.45 Summary and close
FEES:
CILIP personal members: £165 plus VAT (£28.88) £193.88
CILIP institutional members: £200 plus VAT (£35.00) £235.00
Non members: £230 plus VAT (£40.25) £270.25
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