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Imagine… over 21 million journal articles on life sciences and biomedical topics at your fingertips! Searching Pub Med. Searching Medical Literature: a class created by Aaron Robb 2012. Searching. what are AND, OR and NOT examples of? what methods improve search result outcomes?
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Imagine…over 21 million journal articles on life sciences and biomedical topics at your fingertips!Searching Pub Med Searching Medical Literature: a class created by Aaron Robb 2012
Searching • what are AND, OR and NOT examples of? • what methods improve search result outcomes? • the term Controlled Vocabulary means what?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ Search Box Links to helpful tutorials and FAQs
Filters remain active until removed Set filters to narrow searches for more focused results
Red = the areas of search results White = excluded items This slide courtesy of Sue’s Blog Spot at http://suesauer.blogspot.com/2012/09/boolean.html
Definition Subheadings limit search to specific aspects of the subject heading Additional terms used to reveal the results about Bipolar Disorder.
Create an NCBI account E-mail citations to yourself
Knowing • what are AND, OR and NOT examples of? • what methods improve search result outcomes? • the term Controlled Vocabulary means what?
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