PubMed & BeyondMarch 23, 2011

ROBIN FEATHERSTONESLIDES: www.slideshare.net/featherr

What is the difference between PubMed & MEDLINE?

www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dif_med_pub.html

Which citations would you find with a MeSH search?

Objectives

• After today’s class you will be able to select and utilize an expanded set of tools to analyze and review PubMed citations

Agenda

1. The Regular Update– E-mail updates in MyNCBI

2. The Analysis– GoPubMed

3. The Reference Review– SCOPUS

4. The Rush Job– Pubget

1. The Regular Update

• You want to stay up to date on the latest publications, but don’t have time to run regular searches

Regular Update Strategy

• Start an account with PubMed (MyNCBI)• Execute a quality search• Save it• Set it to run on regular intervals • Summaries of new publications will be emailed

to youDEMO

Exercise – 10 minutes

• Run a search on a topic of interest to you • Save it (set up a MyNCBI account if you don’t

have one)• Set up an email alert

2. The Analysis

• You need an overview of scholarly activity within your field

PubMed search

DEMO: www.gopubmed.org

Exercise – 10 minutes

• Find GoPubMed on the web –www.gopubmed.org

• Run a search on a topic that interests you• Find out:

–Who is the top author in the field? –When did publications on this topic start to

appear in the literature? –Which journal published the most articles on

this topic?

3. The Reference Review

• You have found a couple of good articles and want to find MORE

Reference Review Strategy

• Find the references for your paper using SCOPUS

• Use SCOPUS to find out who has cited your paper since it was published

DEMO

Exercise – 10 minutes

• Link to SCOPUS from the MUHC Libraries website: http://muhclibraries.mcgill.ca/

• Find this article: Hagen, N. A., et al. (2008). Tetrodotoxin for moderate to

severe cancer pain: A randomized, double blind, parallel design multicenter study. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 35(4), 420-429.

• Who has cited this paper? Link to a citing article and view their references

4. The Rush Job

• You need the full-text of an article RIGHT NOW!

Rush Job Strategy: Pubget - DEMO

Exercise – 10 minutes

• Find Pubget on the web –http://pubget.com

• Search for articles on topics of interest to you

Recap

• To set up email alerts, ____ your search in ____

• Before linking to Pubget, remember to ____

• SCOPUS is a ____ tool, useful for finding ____

• Use ____ to find out which journal has published

the most articles on you topic

• Your library can ____