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Searching Biomedical Literature: HCI-571/471. Natalie Sturr 312-3565 natalie.sturr@oswego.edu. Copy of PowerPoint. http://www.oswego.edu/~sturr. http://www.oswego.edu/library/. Research Guides by Subject. Research Guides by Subject Databases for journal articles
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Searching Biomedical Literature:HCI-571/471 Natalie Sturr 312-3565 natalie.sturr@oswego.edu
Copy of PowerPoint http://www.oswego.edu/~sturr
Research Guides by Subject • Research Guides by Subject • Databases for journal articles • Databases for background articles • Includes other resources • Link off library home page
Health & Wellness GuideGeneral/Multidisciplinary Databases • Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) • Proquest Research Library
General/Multidisciplinary Databases • Search on most specific topic • Vary vocabulary to find more information • Ex: therapy / treatment • Vocabulary likely not controlled • Combine search terms/concepts
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome AND Treatment Carpal Tunnel Syndrome OR Treatment Carpal Tunnel Syndrome NOT Treatment Boolean Logic - AND, OR, NOT
Library Databases – Journal Articles • Additional features • Narrow retrieval by publication type • Academic or Scholarly Journals • Magazines or Popular Journals • 360 Link to Full Text • To obtain article in another library database • To request a copy through Interlibrary Loan • Cite • Create entry or citation for a bibliography or list of works cited
Interlibrary Loan • Obtain copy of article from another library • Link from 360Link to Full Text screen • Link on library home page
Health & Wellness Guide Biomedical Databases • MEDLINE with Full Text (via EBSCO) • PubMed
MEDLINE - history • 1879 – Index Medicus • 1964 as MEDLARS • Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System • 1971 – MEDLINE • MEDLARS Online • 1997 – PubMed • MEDLINE available free on web
MeSH– Medical Subject Headings • Thesaurus produced by NLM • National Library of Medicine • Health-related and biomedical topics • Used for: • Indexing • Searching • Updated annually
MeSH – Medical Subject Headings • Alphabetical • Major Concepts • Hierarchical / Trees • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/trees.html • Explode a term • Search on entire “branch” of a tree • Qualifiers: • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/topsubscope.html
MEDLINE - EBSCO - MeSH Input your topic Helpful to click ‘Term Contains’
MEDLINE - EBSCO - MeSH Click if you want term to be a Major Concept Click next to heading to call up list of qualifiers Click ‘Search Database’ to execute the search
MEDLINE - EBSCO - MeSH Click on term to go to Tree view
PubMed- MeSH #1 - Search topic in MeSH #3 – Click: Add to search builder #4 – Click: Search PubMed #2 - Select qualifiers, if major topic, whether to explode term
MEDLINE / MeSH • MEDLINE with Full Text (via EBSCO) • Available from libraries • PubMed • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ • http://www.pubmed.gov • http://www.pubmed.org
Ask a Librarian • Reference librarian • At Research Help Desk • Phone: 312-4267 • Text: 315-878-8237 • askalibrarian@oswego.edu • Chat – 24x7 • With Penfield or other librarian • Ask a Librarianlink on library web pages
Searching Biomedical Literature http://www.oswego.edu/library Natalie Sturr 312-3565 natalie.sturr@oswego.edu http://www.oswego.edu/~sturr
Search Examples • Treatments (drug and other therapies) for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome • Use of anti-inflammatory drugs for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome • Computer use and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome