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DATABASE: INSTRUCTIONS AND TRAINING :
DATABASES: MEDICAL HEALTH BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY:
PubMed Training Manual from NLM:
Revised February, 2010



PubMed Training Manual from NLM:
Revised February, 2010
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/manuals/pm_workbook_Feb_2010.pdf>


MEDLARS Management Section
U.S. National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services
Bethesda, Maryland


Table of Contents

Agenda 
Goals and Objectives 
Introduction to the U.S. National Library of Medicine 
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine 
Document Delivery 
NLM Technical Bulletin 
Consumer Information 
NLM Customer Service 
Subscribe to NLM-Announces Mailing List 
Introduction to PubMed (pubmed.gov) 
Whats in PubMed 
MEDLINE Citations 
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH Vocabulary) 
Subheadings 
Pharmacologic Action Terms 
Other Types of MeSH Vocabulary 
Practice Exercises  Introduction to MeSH 
Building the Search 
Search Results Screen 
Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) 
Details screen 
Practice Exercises: Basic Search and ATM 
Related Articles 
Limits 
Phrase Searching 
Truncation (finding all terms that begin with a given text string) 
Stopword List 
Spell Check Feature 
Practice Exercises: Limits & Phrase Searching 
Boolean Logical Operators 
History 
Practice Exercises: Boolean Operators and History 
Searching with MeSH and the MeSH Database 
Practice Exercises: Searching with MeSH 
Using the Search Builder to Search by Field 
Finding a Specific Citation 
Using Search Tags -- Search Field Descriptions 
Journals Database 
Practice Exercises: Search Tags 
Managing the Results 
Display Settings 
Send to 
My NCBI Collections 
My Bibliography 
Saving the Search 
Saving Search Strategies with My NCBI
RSS 
Practice Exercises: Managing the Results and Saving the Search 
Getting the Articles 
LinkOut 
Send to Order 
Additional Tools 
Filters 
My NCBI User Preferences


Clinical Queries 
Special Queries  Health Services Research (HSR) Queries 
Linking to PubMed 
E-Utilities 
Review Exercises



Goals and Objectives


By the end of this course, you should be able to:


Understand PubMed's scope and content.

Understand how the MeSH vocabulary is used to describe and
retrieve citations.

Build a search using MeSH and PubMed search tools
(Details, Limits, History, Search Builder, etc.)

Manage your results using display, sort, the Clipboard, save, print, 
e-mail and order features. Save your search strategies.

Customize your display (using My NCBI).

Link to full-text articles and other resources.

Use filters and special queries, and other PubMed/NCBI tools.



Introduction to the U.S. National Library of Medicine

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National 
Institutes of Health (NIH), is the world's largest medical library. The 
collections of the National Library of Medicine include more than seven 
million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, 
photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences, including some 
of the world's oldest and rarest works.



The National Network of Libraries of Medicine

Medical libraries throughout the United States are joined together in a 
network. The purpose of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine 
(NN/LM) is to provide health science practitioners, investigators, 
educators, and administrators in the United States with timely, convenient 
access to biomedical and health care information resources. The network is 
administered by the National Library of Medicine. It consists of eight 
Regional Medical Libraries (major institutions under contract to NLM), 
more than 159 Resource Libraries (primarily at medical schools), and some 
4,762 Primary Access Libraries (primarily at hospitals). The Regional 
Medical Libraries administer and coordinate services in the network's 
eight geographical regions.


NN/LM Web site:

<http://nnlm.gov>



Toll free phone number: 1-800-338-7657


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Introduction to PubMed (pubmed.gov)


NLM has been indexing the biomedical literature since 1879, to help 
provide health professionals access to information necessary for research, 
health care, and education. What was once a printed index to articles, the 
Index Medicus, became a database now known as MEDLINE. MEDLINE contains 
journal citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from around the 
world. Since 1996, free access to MEDLINE has been available to the public 
online via PubMed


NLM Home Page
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov>

PubMed is a database developed by the National Center for Biotechnology 
Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) available on 
the Web. PubMed is one of several databases under NCBIs Entrez retrieval 
system. PubMed currently includes over 19 million bibliographic citations. 
PubMed also has links to the full-text of articles at participating 
publishers Web sites, as well as biological data, sequence data, and more 
from other Entrez Databases and from third parties.


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Whats in PubMed

Most PubMed records are MEDLINE citations. Other records include those in 
different stages of processing (including records provided directly from 
the journal publisher) but destined to be MEDLINE citations. A relatively 
small number of records that are included in PubMed but not selected for 
MEDLINE.


MEDLINE Citations


PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicines 
premier bibliographic database containing citations and author abstracts 
from approximately 5,400 biomedical journals published in the United

States and in other countries.

The scope of MEDLINE includes such diverse topics as microbiology, 
delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology and environmental health. 
The categories covered in MEDLINE include everything from anatomy, 
organisms, diseases, psychiatry, and psychology to the physical sciences.
MEDLINE currently contains over 17 million references dating back to 1948. 
New material is added Tuesday through Saturday. Coverage is worldwide, but 
most records (about 90%) are from English-language sources or have English 
abstracts. Approximately 79% of the citations are included with the 
published abstract.


MEDLINE Journal Selection


The Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC) meets three 
times a year and considers approximately 140 titles for MEDLINE at each 
meeting. Final approval is made by the Director of the National Library of 
Medicine. Titles are considered for scope and coverage, quality of 
content, quality of editorial work, production quality, audience, and type 
of content. For more details, see the NLM Fact Sheet, MEDLINE Journal 
Selection, at


<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html>



MEDLINE  Basic Bibliographic Citation

One MEDLINE citation represents one journal article and is composed of 
fields that provide specific information (Title, Author, Language, etc.) 
about the journal article. The following information is generally 
provided:

Title of the journal article

Names of the Authors

Abstract published with the article

Controlled Vocabulary search terms (Medical Subject Headings)

Journal Source Information

First Author Affiliation

Language in which the article was published

Publication Type (description of the type of article, e.g., Review, 
Letter, etc.)



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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH Vocabulary)

For a video introduction to MeSH, see Branching Out: The MeSH Vocabulary 
at

<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/video/>


What is MeSH?

Acronym for Medical Subject Headings Similar to key words on other systems 
Used for indexing journal articles for MEDLINE and also used for 
cataloging books and audiovisuals Used by searchers Revised annually Gives 
uniformity and consistency to the indexing of the biomedical literature 
and is a distinctive feature of MEDLINE

MeSH Vocabulary includes four types of terms:

Headings Publication Types Subheadings Supplementary Concept Records

MeSH Headings

MeSH headings represent concepts found in the biomedical literature MeSH 
headings and Publication Types are arranged in a hierarchical manner 
called the MeSH Tree Structure

Examples of MeSH Headings:


Body Weight
Kidney
Dental Cavity
Preparation
Self Medication
Radioactive Waste
Brain Edema



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