Searching Biomedical Literature:

HCI-571/471

Natalie Sturr312-3565

natalie.sturr@oswego.edu

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Research Guides by Subject Research Guides by

Subject Databases for journal

articles Databases for

background articles Includes other resources Link off library home

page

Research Guides by Subject

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

Boolean Logic - AND, OR, NOT

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome AND Treatment

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome OR Treatment

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome NOT Treatment

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

Helpful to click ‘Term Contains’

Input your topic

MEDLINE - EBSCO - MeSH

Click next to heading to call up list of qualifiers

Click if you want term to be a Major Concept

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

#2 - Select qualifiers, if major topic, whether to explode term

#3 – Click: Add to search builder#4 – Click: Search PubMed

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 Librarian link on library web

pages

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Searching Biomedical Literature

Natalie Sturr312-3565

natalie.sturr@oswego.eduhttp://www.oswego.edu/~sturr

http://www.oswego.edu/library

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