MEDLINE

1
MEDLINE

• Produced by NLM
• indexes approximately 4.500 journals from US and
  70 other countries
• a bibliographic database
• from 1966 to present
• access Winspirs, Webspirs, Pubmed

2
BOOLEAN OPERATORS

• AND OR NOT
• tea and coffee
• tea or coffee
• tea not coffee

3
SEARCHING FIELDS

• authors Smith in au
• titles kiss in ti
• journals Lancet in so
• address Debrecen in ad
• abstract apoptosis in ab

4
MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS (MeSH)

• controlled vocabularythesaurus
• synonyms, spelling, singular and plural forms
• subheadings

5
MeSH SEARCH

• formulate your query (Does chewing gum have any
  adverse effects?)
• break it into concepts (chewing gum, adverse
  effect)
• check your main term in the thesaurus
• check subheadings

6
LIMITING YOUR SEARCH

• Narrow your search to a manageable number (20-30)
  selecting
• publication year
• language
• publication type
• checktags, etc.

7
MANAGING YOUR RECORDS

• Save (download)
• print (20 HUF/page)
• link to full text or ask for photocopies
• Procite

8
OTHER USEFUL DATABASES ON THE SAME PLATFORM

• EMBASE
• BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS
• BOOKS IN PRINT
• INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL ABSTRACTS

9
WEB of SCIENCE

• Produced by ISI, Philadelphia
• Science Citation Index, Social Citation Index,
  Arts and Humanities Index
• SCI covers medicine, biology, biotechnology,
  agriculture, mathematics, astronomy, physics,
  chemistry, zoology, botany
• indexes 5,300 journals
• from 1996- (from 1980 on CD ROM)

10
CITATION SEARCH

• Select the database (SCI) and the years
• go to Full Search and type in the name in cited
  author
• select the items you need from the list one by
  one
• click on search and see who cited your author

11
IMPACT FACTOR

• a tool for journal evaluation
• based on citation counts
• citation frequency may widely vary between
  different specialities
• journals in non-English languages are less
  accessible to researchers worldwide, which may
  influence their citation counts