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Hi there,

 

I am hoping someone might be able to help me with this update search problem. I need to find all the papers that have been added to Medline (which match my search) since I last ran my search. Here is the process I went through to try and do that:

 

1.       I ran a search in Medline on the 29th January 2013 and found 12047 papers.

2.       I re-ran the search today and found 12547 papers (step 33)

3.       So there are 500 extra papers that have been found.

4.       I searched for all papers added to the database since the 29th January using the entry date field (step 34)

5.       I expected to find 500 papers

6.       I actually only found 245 (step 35)

7.       Where are the other 255?!

 

Here is the last few steps of my search:

 

32

limit 31 to english language

13991

33

limit 32 to yr="1990 -Current"

12547

34

("20130128" or "20130129" or "20130130" or "20130131" or "20130201" or "20130202" or "20130203" or "20130204" or "20130205" or "20130206" or "20130207" or "20130208" or "20130209" or "20130210" or "20130211" or "20130212" or "20130213" or "20130214" or "20130215" or "20130216" or "20130217" or "20130218" or "20130219" or "20130220" or "20130221" or "20130222" or "20130223" or "20130224" or "20130225" or "20130226" or "20130227" or "20130228" or "20130301" or "20130302" or "20130303" or "20130304" or "20130305" or "20130306" or "20130307" or "20130308" or "20130309" or "20130310" or "20130311" or "20130312" or "20130313" or "20130314" or "20130315" or "20130316" or "20130317" or "20130318" or "20130319" or "20130320" or "20130321" or "20130322" or "20130323" or "20130324" or "20130325" or "20130326" or "20130327" or "20130328" or "20130329" or "20130330" or "20130331" or "20130401" or "20130402" or "20130403" or "20130404" or "20130405" or "20130406" or "20130407" or "20130408" or "20130409" or "20130410" or "20130411" or "20130412" or "20130413" or "20130414" or "20130415" or "20130416" or "20130417" or "20130418" or "20130419" or "20130420" or "20130421" or "20130422" or "20130423" or "20130424" or "20130425" or "20130426" or "20130427" or "20130428" or "20130429" or "20130430" or "20130501" or "20130502" or "20130503" or "20130504" or "20130505" or "20130506" or "20130507" or "20130508" or "20130509" or "20130510" or "20130511" or "20130512" or "20130513" or "20130514" or "20130515" or "20130516" or "20130517" or "20130518" or "20130519" or "20130520" or "20130521" or "20130522").ed.

228599

35

33 and 34

245

 

I have played around with using the ‘revision date’ field and the ‘update date’ field but that doesn’t find all 500 either. I am sure I am missing something obvious so apologies if I am but any help would be much appreciated!

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Sally

 

Sally Dalton BA Hons, MSc

Faculty Team Librarian (Dentistry and Psychology)

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