Searching and Accessing Full Text Journal Articles

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Searching and Accessing Full Text Journal
Articles

• Nancy Clark, Director of Medical Informatics
• Susan Epstein, Public Services Librarian
• FSU College of Medicine

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Objectives for Session

• Learners will
• Do PubMed search using primary functions
• Use the new interface
• Locate full articles from PubMed search
• Perform Google Scholar Search
• Save searches in NCBI

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Handouts

• PowerPoint
• Worksheet for activity
• Evaluations Please complete Pre- Workshop
  Assessment

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Tutorials for PubMed
Link to PubMed Tutorials
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What is MEDLINE?

• Database of bio-medical journals (medical,
  dental, nursing, veterinary, )
• Old Index Medicus database
• Service of National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• 5,271 biomedical journals, most are peer reviewed
  
• Nearly 18 million citations (around 70,000
  new/month)
• Back to 1860s (primarily back to 1950s)

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What is MEDLINE?

• Articles are indexed by Real People.
• Terms are assigned that come from a Controlled
  Vocabulary (Thesaurus) called MeSH (Medical
  Subject Headings).
• MeSH includes sets of subheadings that apply to
  each term and uses markers to indicate which
  terms reflect the main focus of the article.

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Where to Search MEDLINE?

• Pubmed (NLM interface)
• OVID
• MD Consult
• Merck Medicus
• Medscape

• Links to
• Full text journal articles
• Books
• EBM databases

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Goal of Journal Search

• A Few Good Articles

Full text in as few clicks as possible
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Go to PubMed (EZProxy)

• Under MedResources List
• Click on Pubmed

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Alternate Option

• Use Search Engine Box to start Pubmed Search
• Type in Terms and start Search

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Get a Free NCBI Account. Why?

• Alerting service
• Sends TOC of latest journals
• Sends results of searches updates
• Save searches
• Save collections of articles
• Filters which break down your results for you

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First search of the evening Author search

• Use initial(s) most frequently used by author
• After 2002, full names (when included in the
  journal itself) may be used
• May search multiple authors on one search line

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Example of author search Search for articles by
Hurt MM and click the Search button
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Lets take a look at one article
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Abstract View
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MeSH Terms
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MEDLINE View
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Direct Link to Full Text
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Do your own author search exercise

• Lawrence Weed (LL Weed)
• Nir Menachemi
• Robert Brooks (RG Brooks)

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PubMed tutorial

• 1 minute tutorial on a simple subject search
• Note Advanced Search gt Details screen to
  understand the PubMed search engine in one
  picture!

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Subject Search
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Limits Results
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Details scroll down
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Search Strategies

• Limit search
• By type of article
• By date
• By age group
• By language

• Phrases in quotes focal nodular hyperplasia
• AND, OR, NOT, parentheses

medication errors AND quality improvement NOT
(ambulatory OR nursing home)
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Types of Articles

• Editorials
• Letters
• Review Articles
• Meta-Analysis
• Systematic reviews
• Clinical Guidelines

• Original Research
• Case Studies
• Case Control
• Time Series
• Cross sectional
• Cohort
• Control trials
• Randomized Control Trials

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Advanced Search
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Using Your Search History
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Put a reference in the Clipboard
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Clipboard

• As you search
• Add articles to Clipboard
• Collect all the good articles there

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Email Clipboard
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Follow the link to the article
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When you see this
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When the pretty red button isnt there.
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Identify the Full Journal Title
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Finding Full Text Articles

• Pubmed Linked to full text? No
• Medical E-Journals list from library webpage? Not
  listed
• FSU E-Journals from library webpage. In
  electronic format? No...
• Interlibrary loans for titles not owned by FSU
  MedLibrary_at_med.fsu.edu

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All FSU E-Journals

• Under Resources
• Expand E-Journals
• Click on All FSU E-Journals

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FSU Libraries E-Journals
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Interlibrary Loan
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Finding Journal Articles at FSU
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Endnote X2

• 100 Software free to all faculty
• Manages articles
• Create libraries of articles by topic
• Cite and format bibliography in papers/articles
• Contact librarians if interested

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Google Scholar

• Searches Pubmed, some of our content, links to
  full text
• In Search Engines box
• Great for finding articles
• Cant save searches or email searches

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Saving Articles
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Find it _at_ FSU
Link goes to Serials Solutions
Link goes to FSU Online Catalog
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Exercise

• Write a clinical question
• What kinds of articles do you want to answer this
  question
• Locate first 10 articles on search
• Find the full text articles
• Print one of the full text articles

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Open exercises topics from group
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Review of great features

• Details
• Limits
• Advanced Search
• History (combine searches)
• Related articles
• View in Abstract View to find full article
• Use NCBI to save searches

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Using NCBI

• Register and get a Username and Password

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Why get NCBI Account?

• Save searches
• Save citations in My Bibliography
• Automatically update and e-mail search results
  from your saved searches
• Filter search results
• Highlighting search terms

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My NCBI
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Customize My NCBI

• Tutorials http//www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/myncb
  i.html
• Saving Searches
• Saving References
• Customizing the Tabs
• Highlighting Search Terms

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My NCBI Saving a Search

• Develop a search.
• Click on Save Search.

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My NCBI Saving a Search

• Give name and Save
• Complete form for email notification
• My NCBI puts the search in your list.

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My NCBI Saving References (1)

• Develop a search.
• Check the references you want to save.
• Click on Send To and select Clipboard.

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My NCBI Saving References (2)

• Go to the Clipboard
• Click on Send To and select Collections.

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My NCBI Saving References (3)

• Tell My NCBI what to call the collection
• Or Append to an existing collection

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My NCBI Saving References (4)

• To see the collection or saved search, click on
  My NCBI gt Collections
• Can download collections into a reference manager
  such as EndNote or RefWorks.

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My NCBI Customizing the Filters

1. Click on My NCBI
2. Manage Filters

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My NCBI Customizing the Filters

• Try Browse Filters to see different types

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My NCBI Highlighting Search Terms

• Click on NCBI Site Preferences.
• Click on Highlighting
• Pick colors

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Have Journal Contents Sent (1)

1. Search Journals Database
2. Enter a general subject term, e.g. Pediatrics,
   then Go.
3. Click on a journal title to get information about
   that journal.
4. Continue with another search for a Journal, find
   and select
5. Click on Send to and select Search Box with
   OR.

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Have Journal Contents Sent (2)

• Click on Search PubMed.
• Click on Save Search, name it, and set up email
  as earlier.
• You will be notified when new articles are
  published in these journals.

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Links to Other NCBI Databases

• NCBI has other databases that link to PubMed.
  (examples CoreNucleotide, Gene, HomoloGene,
  Protein, Protein)

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Summary

• Use Pubmed to Search for Articles on your topics,
  My NCBI to manage
• Use red FSU button to find articles
• If no button eJournals list gt Serial Solutions gt
  Interlibrary loan
• Any journal article you need, we will get

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The End

• Practice
• Call or e-mail us for individual help
• 850-644-3883
• MedLibrary_at_med.fsu.edu