10 + 1 PubMed tips

The link below has some tips for beginning as well as more advanced PubMed searchers.

10 + 1 PubMed tips by a clinical librarian Laika

“PubMed is the platform that offers free  access to 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals. 18 million, that is a tremendous amount of literature! And that is one of the main problems: the sheer amount makes it very difficult to “pick the needle from the haystack”.”

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PubMed Tutorial

PubMed has developed and released a new online tutorial that will show you how to search PubMed®.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand PubMed’s scope and content.
• Understand how the MeSH vocabulary is used to describe and retrieve citations.
• Build a search using MeSH and PubMed search tools (Details, Limits, History, etc.)
• Manage your results using display, sort, the Clipboard, save, print, e-mail and order features and My NCBI filters.
• Save your search strategies.
• Link to full-text articles and other resources.
• Use special queries and other PubMed/NCBI tools.

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Top 10 Things to Know about Ovid: No. 1

For best results, use the Advanced Ovid Search option. Search for each term separately, starting with the relevant disease or disorder (if applicable). Then, use the Search History to combine searches with boolean logic. Click here to see a video demonstration (1 min 45 sec).

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Top 10 Things to Know about EBSCO: No.1

You can do a search that maps to MeSH terms. In Advanced Search, above the three search fields, check the “Suggest Subject Terms”. Search one term at a time (i.e. ignore the other 2 search fields) for best results. Use the “Search History/Alerts” link to combine searches with boolean logic.

Click here to see a video demonstration (3 min 21 sec).

If you can’t find the “Suggest Subject Terms” checkbox, click on the MeSH link in the top blue bar instead.

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CEBM keeps on improving

CEBM as one of the best evidence based practice website out-there keeps on getting better. They have recently made significant improvement to their website.

Take a look here
http://www.cebm.net/

Filed under: Evidence Based Practice, Knowledge translation, Tutorials

Stay up to date and get regular research updates

If you are interested in one particular clinical area you can sign up for RSS feed direct from the clinical area you are interested in.

Take a look at this video to see how it works

(please click on the heading of this post if you cant see the whole screen)

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Zotero – collect, manage, and cite your research sources

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.

Check it out and take a tour here – Zotero

Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.

An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)—the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references—and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways.

Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on many major research and library sites—find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one’s personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi).

http://www.zotero.org/about/

Filed under: Citation managers, Tutorials

Steps in Using RSS in PubMed/Medline

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MyNCBI: Pubmed Your Way

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Google for Life Science Researchers

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