The National Library of Medicine and its databases a PhD Lívia Vasas February

Abbreviations connections MeSH: Medical Subject Heading PMC: PubMed Central NLM: National Library of Medicine: NIH: National Institutes of Health NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information. AID: Article Identifier DOI: Digital Object Identifier ISSN: International Standard Serial Number NCBI belongs to NLM and NLM itself is a department of NIH. 2 /25

National Library of Medicine NLM MEDLINE More than 23 million records 5000 kind of medical journals, + 90 kind of dentistry journals 187 kind of nursing journals 106 kinf of health care, 85 kind of health care technology journals 105 kind of medical history journals Online books are being indexed 3 /25

MEDLINE – Definition History …. The MEDLINE database is the electronic counterpart of Index Medicus®, Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index, taken care by NLM. MEDLINE is the most used medical bibliographic database. 4 /25

Topics covered by MEDLINE based on nearly 5000 scholar journals (Journal Database) Medicine Nursing Dentistry Veterinary medicine Allied health Pre-clinical sciences 5 /25

MEDLINE - PUBMED These databases work on the same base MEDLINE ( OVID, EBSCO etc) Subsciption service Qualified records with MESh terms, more subheadings, Value added services PUBMED Free of charge, open access Special records (in process…as supplied by publ… indexed for Medline ) Updated daily 6 /25

PubMed records: PubMed - in process PubMed - as supplied by publisher PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE 7 /25

PubMed - basic search 8 /25

Sign in – register for an account Do not use special characters at registration (– á Ö. : ; *) Detailed search question can be saved: „Save search” notification if there are new records for a search „Manage Filters” settings will remain Useful records can be put into Collections 9 /25

PubMed possibilities Show additional filters Display settings Send to Save search Advanced search Results by year PMC images search for Titles with your search terms free full-text articles in PubMed Central Search details Recent activities 10 /25

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Starting at MESH 12 /25

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This search is still not a good search…. Analize the result to find more relevant keywords– rethink the search process Special attention to the publication types… 16 /25

Type of publications 17 /25

Clinical trial 18 /25

Evidence Pyramid 19 /25

NLM - catalogue 20 /25

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PubMEd Central PMC 22 /25

MedlinePlus – for everybody /25

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