How To Search/PubMed
- Purpose: "to provide access to citations from biomedical literature." [1]
- Audience: PubMed is run by National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the United States. NCBI was established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease. [2]
- Scope: Biomedical literature. Pubmed "allows users to access a superset of NLM's MEDLINE database containing MEDLINE, in-process citations, and citations to articles from selectively indexed journals that normally would not be selected for MEDLINE indexing." [3]
- Refresh Rate: ?
Boolean Operators
[edit | edit source]| Boolean Operator |
Syntax | Example |
|---|---|---|
| AND | {Default} | skunk tomato |
| OR | OR | skunk OR tomato |
| NOT | NOT | skunk NOT tomato |
Other Operators
[edit | edit source]| Syntax | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| "" | "kidney allograft" |
phrase search |
Search Fields
[edit | edit source]"PubMed uses an Automatic Term Mapping feature to search for unqualified terms. When you click Go, PubMed will look for a match in up to four lists. It looks first for a match in the MeSH Translation Table. If it doesn't find a match, it looks in the Journals Translation Table and finally in the Author Index. As soon as PubMed finds a match, the mapping stops. That is, if a term matches in the MeSH Translation Table, PubMed does not continue looking in the next table." [4] When there are no matches found during the automatic term mapping process, individual words are searched in all fields.
| Syntax | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| {Default} | MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) | |
| {Default} | Journal Title | |
| [au] or {Default} | Washington G |
Author |
*cardiogra* |
Truncation | |
| YYYY/MM/DD | 1999/04/19 |
Date of Publication |
| YYYY/MM/DD | 1999/04/19 |
Entrez Date - Date publication was entered into Pubmed |
| YYYY/MM/DD | 1999/04/19 |
Date publication was given MeSH terms |
Alternative Search Interface
[edit | edit source]- iPubMed An interface allowing interactive and fuzzy search
Other Features
[edit | edit source]An excellent PubMed tutorial can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html.
External links
[edit | edit source]- PubMed Reader -- PubMed Reader is a free web-based research program for displaying PubMed / Medline search results on an individual, custom tailored basis.
- iPubMed An interface allowing interactive and fuzzy search
- Customizable PubMed Alerts