Searching the Literature Dr. Kasar P.K. Professor PSM NSCB Medical College Jabalpur Health Action by People

Why search the literature? To learn New facts New techniques To avoid mistakes To present information

How do you proceed? Ask your teacher Undergraduate textbooks Read your textbook Postgraduate books Go to pertinent references

Reference works Review articles Monographs Thesis (published, unpublished) Journals - Review journals Journals with original articles

Bibliographic References What has been published, where and when? What in a nutshell is the work? Refer Index journals and publications Cumulative index medicus

MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES Medline Embase AIDSLINE Clinpsych Healthstar Toxline Biosys

Review journals- ( examples) Clinics of North America series Year Book series Annual Review series Progress in … series Recent progress series Recent awareness series

Original articles Lancet British Medical Journal New England Journal of Medicine American Journal of Medicine National Medical Journal’ Journal of Association of Physicians India Indian Journal of Community Medicine Over 4000 journals are peer review and indexed. Many journals are now available both in print and electronic editions

The index journal provides information on The title of the article The authors Journal Year of Publication Abstracts(almost always) You can search by Key word,year, subject, author etc. Index journals are available both in print version and Electronic Edition CD ROM versions, Online versions

Online information retrieval The internet and the World Wide Web ( www) What is available in the net? The world wide web is a source of information on everything under the sun. Over 100 million computers are connected electrically Information is located in many computers (host server) on any topic. It can be accessed at will

11 The World Wide Web Over 100 million computers networked Host servers act as repositories Any time access of information Information on any topic Quality of information varies

12 Search Engines Pub-Med Medline Medweb Altavista Webcrawler CDC MedExplorer Indian Medlars Infoseek yahoo hotbot netscape exite google

13 MEDLINE The most popular medical index Electronic adaptation of Index- Medicus Published by NLM, Bethesda Available in CD-ROM and internet Updated every month

14 Quick Search When using Quick-Searching feature a simple search is done by word, parts of words. When searching for words, the Quick-Searching feature will match whole words or parts of words For example: Bibliograph Would match Bibliographies, Bibliography, Bibliographical, or anything else containing 'Bibliograph'.

15 Biography Does Not Match Biographies, Biographical, or any similar variation that does not contain the whole word as typed in the search.

16 Advanced Search Multiple word searches Entire phrases searches Boolean searches Other searches can be done from Advanced Search.

17 Boolean Searches Available Keywords and Example: Pulmonary and Tuberculosis Description: All search results will contain both terms " Pulmonary” and “Tuberculosis" or Example: Renal or Kidney Description: Results will contain either the term "renal" or the term "kidney".

18 Boolean Searches Available Keywords not Example: Tuberculosis not potts Description: Results will contain the term "tuberculosis" but not the term "potts". near Example: Pulmonary near Tuberculosis Description: All search results will contain terms " Pulmonary tuberculosis”

19 Literature Search Request Indian Medlarshttp://indmed.nic.in/ Provide requested literature after search on payment HAP Indiahttp:// Provide requested literature after search free

20 Web Address Indian Medlars PubMedhttp:// Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

21 Web Address Webcrawlerhttp:// Medexplorerhttp:// Altavistahttp:// Hotbothttp://

22 Link to Web Address Link to different Search Engines, Journals, Institutions,Organizations etc available on

23 Thank You Good luck for nice Search