1. Livia Vasas PhD www.lib.sote.hu Budapest, September 2011.
National Center for Biomedical Information Books, journals, NLM Catalogue PubMed, MESH database Literature Retrieval
Livia Vasas PhD
Budapest, September 2011.

2. Abbreviations connections
MeSH: Medical Subject Heading
NLM: National Library of Medicine:
NIH: National Institutes of Health
NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information.
NCBI belongs to NLM and NLM
itself is a department of NIH.

3. MEDLINE - Definition
A 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. TOPICS COVERED BY MEDLINE BASED ON NEARLY 5000 SCHOLAR JOURNALS (Journal Database)
Medicine
Nursing
Dentistry
Veterinary medicine
Allied health
Pre-clinical sciences

5. WHAT IS PUBMED?
A MEDLINE has different accesses and platforms. The most known and popular one is PubMed, the web based database taken care by NLM.
But other MEDLINEs: OVID MEDLINE
ProQuest MEDLINE,
EBSCO MEDLINE etc. More than 30 versions

6. PubMed –special features
It can be accessed from anywere if the internet connection is available.
Open access
Special records (process…. )
Updated daily

7. Sign in – register for an account
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

10. My NCBI

13. You need to get to the full-text article!

14. At the literature searching listen to the
PubMed: My NCBI usage
MeSH – thesaurus usage
You need TIME to think about the proper searching methods
This is an iterative process
The electronic resources are expensive (databases, e-periodicals) except PubMed