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MEDLINE for Medical Research Juliet Ralph and C ésar Pimenta Hilary Term 2007

MEDLINE is a comprehensive bibliographic database containing over 13 million citations to journal articles in the fields of Medicine, Nursing, Allied health, and Pre-clinical sciences. It offers precise search capabilities, MeSH headings for consistent retrieval, and abstracts for the majority of records. Accessible through different interfaces, including Ovid Web Gateway and PubMed.

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MEDLINE for Medical Research Juliet Ralph and C ésar Pimenta Hilary Term 2007

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  1. MEDLINE for Medical Research Juliet Ralph and César Pimenta Hilary Term 2007

  2. MEDLINE • MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine’s bibliographic database in fields such as Medicine, Nursing, Allied health, Pre-clinical sciences etc. • It contains over 13 million citations to journal articles, including reviews and clinical trials • 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries • Dating back to 1950, with daily updates

  3. MEDLINE • Records are indexed with MeSH headings • MeSH terms provide a consistent way of retrieving information that uses different terminology for the same concept. • Abstracts are included for more than 75% of the records

  4. Different Interfaces • In Oxford, MEDLINE runs from the OVID Web Gateway and PubMed • Ovid: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/ • PubMed: http://www.pubmed.gov

  5. Advantages of OVID Web Gateway • Guided through selections for a precise search based on MeSH headings and limits • Links to full-text collections subscribed by OULS • Same interface as other medical databases

  6. Ovid Platform • These medical and related databases are now available on Ovid: • AMED – complementary medicine • British Nursing Index • Cinahl – nursing • Embase – pharmacology • Global Health – public health & tropical medicine • HMIC – Health Management Information Consortium • IBSS – International Bibliography of the Social Sciences • Medline - medicine • PsycInfo - psychology

  7. Disadvantages of OVID Web Gateway • Best results obtained by separate entry of search concepts and using the “Combine Searches” feature • Users might find frustrating to have to examine the search closely in order to select relevant subject headings

  8. Features of OVID Web Gateway • Searching • - Map Term to Subject Heading: Mapping finds relevant • subject headings • - Combine searches: Uses Boolean operators to combine • the results of search statements • - Limits: Restricts results to language, age groups, year of • publication, etc. • - Find citation: Useful for checking a faulty or incomplete • reference • Locating full-text articles: Follow the link “Tour Oxford Full Text” to check electronic availability

  9. Features of OVID Web Gateway • Viewing results: By selecting fields and clicking the Display button • Printing, Emailing and Saving: The Results Manager is located at the end of every Results display page • Export to RefWorks or other personal bibliographic management software • Setting AutoAlerts to favourite data sets

  10. Use PubMed • To get free access anywhere on the Internet • To get quick results with strategies automatically created for you

  11. We are here to help • Queries about electronic journals and databases, including access problems • eresources@ouls.ox.ac.uk • Radcliffe Science Library • enquiries.rsl@ouls.ox.ac.uk • Life Sciences and Medicine • juliet.ralph@ouls.ox.ac.uk • cesar.pimenta@ouls.ox.ac.uk

  12. We welcome feedback • You will get an e-mail with the online evaluation form in due course. • Next WISER Science session: INSPEC for Physics and Engineering, Monday 5 Feb. 2007, 12.30 to 13.30 • http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/information_skills/wiser

  13. Sample search topic • Look for some recent literature on snoring and other sleep-related breathing problems (such as sleep apnoea) in young children

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