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The PubMed ® Game

The PubMed ® Game. Designed for librarians & library staff From PubMed for Experts Brought to you by NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region February 2013 rev 5. 5x4 . Game Board. Basics 100 - Question. This is implied between items entered in the PubMed search box…. Basics 100 - Answer.

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The PubMed ® Game

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  1. The PubMed® Game Designed for librarians & library staff From PubMed for Experts Brought to you by NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region February 2013 rev 5. 5x4

  2. Game Board

  3. Basics 100 - Question This is implied between items entered in the PubMed search box…

  4. Basics 100 - Answer What is AND? • Remember to ALWAYS capitalize the Boolean operators, AND, OR, NOT!

  5. Basics 200 - Question A digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature with free full text…

  6. Basics 200 - Answer What is PMC (PubMed Central)?

  7. Basics 300 - Question The truncation symbol in PubMed…

  8. Basics 300 - Answer What is the asterisk? • While adjacency searching is not available in PubMed, by putting an asterisk after the second term—this forces PubMed to treat the terms as a phrase.

  9. Basics 400 - Question Describes an aspect of, or qualifies a MeSH heading…

  10. Basics 400 - Answer What is a Subheading? • Can be attached directly to a MeSH heading, knee/ab or “floating” knee AND ab [sh]

  11. MeSH 100 - Question The number of MeSH headings assigned to an article…

  12. MeSH 100 - Answer What are 10-15 headings?

  13. MeSH 200 - Question MeSH terms automatically do this to expand or increase your retrieval…

  14. MeSH 200 - Answer What is explode? • To NOT explode the term, you can select either • “Do Not Explode this term” from the MeSH Database or • add [Mesh:NoExp] to the term.

  15. MeSH 300 - Question In the listing of MeSH headings, this symbol indicates the major emphasis of an article…

  16. MeSH 300 - Answer What is the asterisk? • Tip: By looking at the MeSH headings, you may get ideas to enhance or refine your search!

  17. MeSH 400 - Question Nasal bleedings, nose bleeds ornosebleed are examples of these for the MeSH heading, Epistaxis…

  18. MeSH 400 - Answer What are Entry Terms? • Entry terms are often considered synonyms.

  19. Trivia 100 - Question The number in millions of citations PubMed includes…

  20. Trivia 100 - Answer What is 22.5?

  21. Trivia 200 - Question The option that one chooses in order to export citations into a reference management program...

  22. Trivia 200 - Answer What is the Citation Manager?

  23. Trivia 300 - Question The maximum amount of time items are available in history on the Advanced Search page…

  24. Trivia 300 - Answer What is 8 hours? • The history will be lost after 8 hours of inactivity on PubMed or other NCBI databases

  25. Trivia 400 - Question In My NCBI, this records up to 6 months of searches and citations that you have looked at…

  26. Trivia 400 - Answer What is Recent Activity?. • Remember, the Recent Activity only works if you are logged into your My NCBI account!

  27. Searching 100 - Question Allows you to select languages, age groups, subsets, publication types…

  28. Searching 100 - Answer What are Filters?

  29. Searching 200 - Question Useful for finding a particular citation when you only have a few details…

  30. Searching 200 - Answer What is the Single Citation Matcher?

  31. Searching 300 - Question This PubMed “sidebar” is designed to locate additional literature when a search retrieves a small, but relevant list of citations…

  32. Searching 300 - Answer What is Related Citations in PubMed?

  33. Searching 400 - Question This feature shows you how PubMed translates the terms you put in the search box…

  34. Searching 400 - Answer What is Search Details?

  35. More PM 100 - Question Maximum number of active filters allowed for PubMed in MY NCBI…

  36. More PM 100 - Answer What is 15 active filters? • You can save a larger number, but you can only display up to 15!

  37. More PM 200 - Question This feature lets you save citations into a temporary list…

  38. More PM 200 - Answer What is the Clipboard? • From the clipboard, you can then print, email or save the citations as a file. To save indefinitely, add to a Collection.

  39. More PM 300 - Question These brief tutorials usually take only 3-5 minutes of your time to learn about PubMed searching…

  40. More PM 300 - Answer What are the Quick Tours?http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html

  41. More PM 400 - Question Often overlooked, these link to previously created PubMed searches covering topics such as Healthy People 2020, Cancer and Health Literacy…

  42. More PM 400 - Answer What are the Special Queries or Topic-Specific Queries?

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