1. The National Library of Medicine and its databases
Lívia Vasas, PhD
2017.

2. Abbreviations NIH: National Institutes of Health
NLM: National Library of Medicine
NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information
MeSH: Medical Subject Heading
PMC: PubMed Central
AID: Article Identifier
DOI: Digital Object Identifier
ISSN: International Standard Serial Number
NCBI a division of NLM at NIH More info: NCBI Handbook .

3. 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. MEDLINE PubMed a database with bibliographic records from journal articles
More than 26 million records from 5600 journals
(medical, dentistry, nursing, health care,  medical history journals,) Online books are being indexed
The MEDLINE records contain Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Most of the citations are from English-language journals and include abstracts

5. MEDLINE – a subset of PubMed

8. More valuable data in MEDLINE records https://www. nlm. nih
MeSH terms
Publication types
Substance name
Controlled bibliographic data

10. PubMed - basic search

13. Sign in – register for an account (since 2005) from Mozilla
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 (can customize your own filter
Useful records can be put into Collections

14. My NCBI: Tools for Saving Searches, Sharing Information and Receiving Alerts
Register for a My NCBI account.
Apply user preferences.
Save searches.
Set up automatic alerts.
Create collections of citations.
Share collections of citations.

15. Apply user preferencies:
Manage Filters …..
Properties - Subsets: MEDLINE records
Create custom filter „in process”

16. Author information My NCBI – NCBI Site Preferencies – Author Information - On

17. PubMed possibilities Show additional filters Send to, Save search
Advanced search
Results by year, by relevance
PMC images search for
Titles with your search terms
free full-text articles in PubMed Central
Search details
Recent activities
PubMed Commons
etc.

18. Save search …Create alert …

19. Collections …

20. Advanced Search Valentin’s Day…
The title is:
survival time of chocolates on hospital wards
- how many images are?
The authors work in universities.
True False

21. Exercise „Create alert” - Saved search ( a subject, one person)
„Send to”
- Create a collection of any subject
with 4 records

22. Starting at MESH

25. From MESH

26. Exercise MeSH term (Entry term): Broken Heart Syndrome
The subheading is: psychology
The result in PubMed:
the number of reviews:
Published in the last 5 years

27. Search in special journals

31. Clinical Queries

34. PMC

36. 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…

37. http://www. slideshare

38. A proper search Match the question to the source
(PubMed, PMC, other database …)
Develop a search strategy
Step by step (MeSH, free words, filters, etc.)

39. Own database from the useful records

40. 2013 – PubMed Commons

45. MedlinePlus – for everybody http://www. nlm. nih

49. Questions MEDLINE contains less records than PubMed. True False
The DOI number: /iovs
The article has an author called Szel A .
True False

50. Questions
The Cardiology main MESH term, subheading „trends” will result how much „clinical trial” type publications?
doi: /
Type of the publication:
Review article comparative study letter

51. Question
The correct DOI number of the article which has Vasas and Berhidi as authors, and was published in 2013 is: /
/OH….29653
/OH

52. Question Child diseased with Ebola. Start the search in MESH.
How much review type publications about it in PubMed?

53. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001359 Is this an open access article?
Yes No
10 images are in this article.
True False
53 items are in the reference list.
True False

54. doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2015.08.003 Is this an open access article?
Yes No
The figures can download as PowerPoint slide.
True False

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