1. The National Library of Medicine and its databases
a PhD
Lívia Vasas
2015

3. Objectives History of MEDLINE PubMed/ Medline records
MeSH headings, major topics, subheadings
Basic PubMed search
My NCBI - display manipulate
From PubMed bibliographic record to fulltext
Chemicals – PubChem BioAssay, Compound, Substance

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. MEDLINE -1964 a database with bibliographic records from journal articles
More than 24 million records from 5600 journals
(medical, dentistry, nursing, health care,  medical history journals, Online books are being indexed
The records contain Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Most of the citations are from English-language journals and include abstracts.

7. Only a free word search

8. A record from PubMed

11. 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

12. PubMed (90% MEDLINE records, 2% in process, 8 % others)
PubMed - in process
PubMed - as supplied by publisher
PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE

13. PubMed - basic search

14. Search results - Display settings

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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

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PubMed Commons

17. Collections ….

18. Starting at MESH

22. 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…

23. Type of publications

24. Clinical trial

25. Evidence Pyramid

26. 2013 – PubMed Commons

29. NLM - catalogue

31. PubMed Central - PMC

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

33. Free access to books and documents

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

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

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

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

42. Thank you for you attention!