Technology Expo, part 3

The second session that I went to during the Technology Expo was about PubMed presented by Barbara Jones from the medical library at Mizzou, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library.

PubMed is a free database produced at the National Library of Medicine. It includes the MedLine citation index of medical journal articles, in-process citations that are not yet in MedLine, older material with no subject headings, and publisher-supplied citations.

Here are some tips:

• The details tab shows what the search really did (usually converted some things to Medical Subject Headings, or MeSH)


• The "Send to" button and drop box on the results page lets you save all the results, or just the checked boxes) in various formats--text to print, clipboard to come back later, or email. Items can also be ordered this way if you are with a participating library--or can make arrangements with a participating library. Mizzou's medical library will do it for Missourians if you don't have a closer library to handle it.


• The Related Articles link to the right of the entries can help you find more resources.


• The Preview Index tab is essentially an advanced search, allowing you to build search strings one term at a time, showing how many results you will get. This is like searching in an Ovid database, something I've found confusing in the past so maybe I should practice here. Although it looks like being familiar with MeSH would be an enormous advantage here.


• The Single Citation Matcher feature in the left menu can be used when you have partial citation info and what to get a full citation.
  

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