Objectives: Part 1

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Objectives Part 1

• Accessing databases and literature
• Finding the literature needed efficiency and
  accuracy
• Major databases
• Entrez overview
• PubMed
• Web of Science (citation indexes)
• Subheadings
• Limits

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Objectives Part 2

• Journals
• Journal Citation Reports

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Objectives Part 3

• Organizing the literature
• EndNote as database
• Manuscript preparation
• EndNote and Cite as You Write
• Instructions for Authors

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Accessing Literature

• Library Catalog
• Subject, journal title, author, etc.
• Electronic links to e-journals, e-books

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PubMed (MEDLINE and more)

• 15 million citations 1950 present, updated
  daily
• Literature component of National Center for
  Biotechnology Informations Entrez
• Many versions of MEDLINE including OVID
• Document ordering when not available through WSU
  Libraries Loansome Doc
• Links to many e-journals available when we
  subscribe

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PubMed Main Features

• Entrez global (meta) search engine
• PubMed
• PubMed search box and Go
• Links to molecular biology databases
• History
• Order Documents (Loansome Doc)
• Bookshelf
• Single Citation Matcher
• Tutorial
• My NCBI

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Search Tools

• MeSH Database (subject/topic precision)
• Medical Subject Headings
• Subheadings
• Major Topic
• Hierarchy
• Limits (non-subject limitations)
• Dates
• Type of publication (e.g., review, RCT)
• Animal/human
• Age groups
• Language, etc.

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Search Formulation

• Boolean operations
• AND, OR or NOT
• dogs OR cats (union)
• ducks AND geese (intersection)
• (muscovy OR mallard OR crested) AND (african OR
  egyptian OR brown)
• 3 NOT canadian
• Track in History

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Search Formulation

• Genetics of bird flu

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Web of Science

• Science Citation Index 1980 present
• Connections between publications
• Literature Cited
• Citations by subsequent authors
• Limited subject searching functions
• More journals included than PubMed (all sciences)

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