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Celebrating National Medical Librarians Month 2005!

Celebrating National Medical Librarians Month 2005!. PubMed : What’s New and Let’s Review. October 27, 2005 Beth A. Lewis, MLS Talbot Research Library. Today you will learn…. How to save a search strategy How to set up an Auto Alert How to sort results using filters

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Celebrating National Medical Librarians Month 2005!

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  1. Celebrating National Medical Librarians Month 2005!

  2. PubMed : What’s New and Let’s Review October 27, 2005 Beth A. Lewis, MLS Talbot Research Library

  3. Today you will learn… • How to save a search strategy • How to set up an Auto Alert • How to sort results using filters • Full Author name searching and First Author Searching • Setting up an RSS Feed for a PM search • How to delete search statement numbers from History

  4. And …. • Easy ways to Limit search results • The neatest way to print search results • How to avoid printing/saving duplicates of search results • The format that you must use to import to EndNote • How to determine if TRL owns a title

  5. And all this, too • How to order interlibrary loans directly from PM • An easy way to find articles like one that you love • Searching and browsing the bookshelf • AND MORE!

  6. MEDLINE? PubMed? What’s the difference ? • Medline indexes journal literature in: • Medicine • Nursing • dentistry • Veterinary medicine • Health care system • Preclinical sciences • It goes back to 1966

  7. What’s the difference? • PubMed includes MEDLINE and more! • OLDMEDLINE – medical literature from 1950-1965 • “out-of-scope” citations • “in-process” citations • Journals available in PubMed Central not included in MEDLINE • Links – to full-text , to related records, to books in the “bookshelf” and more!

  8. What’s NOT included in PubMed? • Not all journals are included • Meeting abstracts are not included • Books and book chapters are not indexed • PubMed does not supply full-text of journal articles; some publishers supply some full-text to the world for free but most full-text to journals is supplied by the Talbot Research Library by subscription

  9. PubMed is popular and growing... • Will add 600,000 citations this year • There are over 15.5 million citations in PubMed • 155 journals have been added in the last year • 68,000,000 searches were done in March 2005 as compared to 59,200,000 in March 2004

  10. Part 1: What’s New?

  11. What’s New? • My NCBI replaces Cubby and allows customization • Filters added • Highlighting added • Spell-check added • Autocomplete added for authors and journals • New Author search features – Full Author Name search and First Author search • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) added • OLDMEDLINE goes back to 1950

  12. “My NCBI” replaces “Cubby” • Save search strategies • Update search strategies • Generate automatic e-mail updates for saved search strategies • Choose filters tosortyour search retrieval by categories

  13. My NCBI on the PubMed screen

  14. Step 1 - Register

  15. Sign in screen

  16. Manually update or delete a search

  17. Filters-quickly and easily sort search results

  18. Filters –sorts search results

  19. To add a filter for Fox Chase Holdings, Browse and then select Libraries

  20. Click on My Selections to see your filters

  21. Saving searches and Auto Alerts • Run a search in PubMed • Make sure that the last search statement ties everything together • Click on Save Search hyperlink (results page) • You will be prompted to sign in if not already signed in • Fill in the requested info on the screen • Click OK when finished

  22. PubMed adds Highlighting! • Highlighted terms include your search terms as well as “mapped to” subject terms, and truncated words or phrases • Highlighting must be turned on via My NCBI and is active only when you are signed into My NCBI

  23. How to Activate Highlighting • Sign in to My NCBI • Click User Preferences on sidebar • Select a color (yellow, green, plum, or aqua) and click OK

  24. Highlighting a phrase

  25. Searched mad cow disease – why is this highlighted?

  26. My NCBI – Facts and Review • My NCBI allows you to store searches that can be updated manually or sent automatically • My NCBI can have only one e-mail address • E-mail address can be changed – click on User Preferences on the My NCBI sidebar

  27. My NCBI - continued • Subject searches, author searches, and journal title searches can be saved and updated • Saved strategies can be changed to automatic alerts by clicking on Details on the saved search screen • Saved search strategies can not be edited

  28. More My NCBI • Search statement numbers can be used in saved searches • Highlighting can be turned on or off via User Preferences • My NCBI will allow you to choose up to 5 filters (Review is a default) • The “hammer and wrench icon” will link you to My NCBI Filters

  29. RSS Feeds – just added! • RSS is a web standard for the delivery of news and other frequently updated content • RSS provides another way of keeping up-to-date • An RSS reader is required • Multiple PubMed searches can be set up for RSS feeds; PM RSS feeds will include citations retrieved since the last time you connected to your RSS reader

  30. How to set up RSS Feed Run search Then choose RSS Feed from the Send to Pull-down menu

  31. Name your search and limit the number of items to be displayed by each feed

  32. After you click Create Feed, the system will generate an XML icon Click This!

  33. Now you see the XML screen. Copy the URL from the address line and paste this into the “subscribe” form in your RSS reader

  34. After subscribing successfully to a PubMed RSS feed, You will receive daily messages in your RSS reader

  35. Setting up an RSS Feed for PubMed • Install an RSS reader • Perform search in PubMed; use “send to” dropdown to send to RSS Feed • Name your search then click “create feed” • Click on orange XML icon • Paste URL into your RSS reader

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