PubMed Basics:

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PubMed Basics
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PubMed Information

• Bibliographic Database
• Citations Abstracts only
• Links to full text
• Indexes journal articles only
• Biomedical Journals
• Health economics policy
• Pharmacy
• Alternative Medicine

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• Includes foreign language articles
• Uses a thesaurus
• MeSH
• Must have cookies enabled
• Operators ALL CAPS

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• Links to full text articles
• PubMed Central
• Anyone - anywhere
• Health Science Center Library subscriptions
• UF affiliates only
• Off campus - EzProxy

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Coverage

• MEDLINE 1966-
• bibliographic database of journal articles
• includes abstracts written by articles author
• 1975-
• Uses MeSH Subject headings
• Updated weekly

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• PreMEDLINE
• No MeSH Headings
• Articles that have not been indexed yet
• More current articles
• Have Message
• MEDLINE record in process
• Articles added daily

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• Publisher Supplied
• No MeSH Headings
• Most current
• May precede publication
• Have notation
• record supplied by publisher
• OldMedline
• Pre 1966
• Text word searching only

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HSC Library PubMed Help
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PubMed Help

• There are two tutorials
• UF
• http//www.library.health.ufl.edu/PubMed/PubMed2/i
  ndex.html
• National Library of Medicine
• http//www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.h
  tml

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Getting to PubMed

• Pubmed.gov
• Anyone anywhere in the world
• HSC Librarys Database Page
• Via Library homepage
• Databases Quick Links
• HSC Library Holding Buttons/Links
• Proxy on

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Connecting to PubMed
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Connecting to PubMed
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Connecting to PubMed
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PubMed Hints

• is the the truncation symbol
• Quotes link terms as a phrase
• practice guidelines
• Either turns off automatic mapping to MeSH