Library instruction class for the College of Audiology/Speech Pathology, Fall Semester 2008

1. PubMed and Other Databases: Audiology/Speech Pathology Kay Cunningham Electronic Resources Librarian Revised: October 20, 2008

4. PubMed —Main page http://pubmed.gov

5. Details tab Even though you only typed “swallowing disorders,” PubMed automatically searches the relevant MeSH term along with your text words. In addition non-MeSH terms are searched both as words and as phrases.

6. Results list

7. Results List: changing from the Summary View Click on the drop-down arrow next to Display Summary and choose the relevant display. Abstract provides the abstracts; AbstractPlus, abstracts and supplemental material.

8. AbstractPlus display The AbstractPlus View provides links to related articles, links to results in other NCBI databases, links to the publisher site (fulltext is available if the institution has a subscription, and—if you have registered with NCBI—the holdings of the medical library(s) of your choice, in this case UTMemphis.

12. MeSH (Medline Subject Headings) Note suggestions, subheadings, entry terms, and the broader and narrower terms of the Tree.

14. Clinical Queries Use the Clinical Queries filter to limit searches to the areas of etiology, diagnosis, therapy, or prognosis

16. Limits Limit by language, gender, type of article, age of subject, human or animal, date, availability of abstract, availability of free full text, etc.

17. Preview/Index—Index Use CTRL-Click to select more than one item in the Index. Click AND to add the selections to the Search Box.

20. New History Features—Recent Activity The Recent Activity box provides easy access to earlier searches. Click on a link to go back to a search.

22. Other aspects of PubMed to be aware of…

24. Entrez: NCBI’s metasearcher

27. OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man --fulltext summaries of genetic disorders

29. My NCBI If you use the same computer for your searches, you can stay permanently logged-in to My NCBI.