Yes, Medline is doing strange things in Harrogate as well, on both NHS
network and non-NHS PCs, both using my NHS Athens password.
When I tried using database "Medline 1996-" MEDL and advanced search,
search term "british medical journal" (not the acronym), searching in
Source or Journal name, retrieved 195 results only, all those listed in
the first 50 published between 1950 and 1987 and all about influenza.
I tried a similar thing on Medline 1950-, MEZZ, and got 58362 hits,
approx as expected. However, when I restricted that list to info added
since 1996, I got 339 hits, none of which seemed to be from the BMJ at
all! (& 142 from BMJ set combined with publication years 1996 - 2006;
again, none of these actually appeared in the British Medical Journal.)
Also tried the Lancet, which came up with 28209 hits, so it looks as if
the articles from the BMJ could have got their tags mixed up, or something.
Helen Weir
Harrogate District Hospital library
Nigel Brook wrote:
> Is anyone experiencing weird medline problems currently??? We have
> gone into the 1996 to date version of dialog medline, searched for
> British Medical Journal limited to journal name and returned only 195
> hits!!! All of these hits date between the 1950's and 1980's.. this
> is wrong! Is anyone else having similar troubles and inconsistencies?
>
> Nige
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