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Searching the Literature
Dr. Kasar P.K. Professor PSMNSCB Medical College Jabalpur
Health Action by People
Why search the literature?
• To learn
New facts
New techniques
To avoid mistakes
To present information
How do you proceed?
• Ask your teacher
Undergraduate textbooks
• Read your textbook
Postgraduate books
• Go to pertinent references
Reference works
• Review articles
• Monographs
• Thesis (published, unpublished)
• Journals - Review journals
Journals with original articles
Bibliographic References
What has been published, where and when?
What in a nutshell is the work?
Refer Index journals and publications
Cumulative index medicus
MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES
• Medline
•Embase
•AIDSLINE
•Clinpsych
•Healthstar
•Toxline
•Biosys
Review journals- ( examples)
Clinics of North America series
Year Book series
Annual Review series
Progress in … series
Recent progress series
Recent awareness series
Original articles
Lancet
British Medical Journal
New England Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Medicine
National Medical Journal’ Journal of Association of Physicians India
Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Over 4000 journals are peer review and indexed. Many journals are
now available both in print and electronic editions
The index journal provides information on
• The title of the article• The authors• Journal• Year of Publication• Abstracts(almost always)
You can search by Key word,year, subject, author etc.
Index journals are available both in print version and
Electronic Edition
CD ROM versions, Online versions
Online information retrieval
• The internet and the World Wide Web ( www)• What is available in the net?• The world wide web is a source of information on everything under the sun.
Over 100 million computers are connected electrically• Information is located in many computers (host server) on any topic.• It can be accessed at will
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The World Wide Web
• Over 100 million computers networked
• Host servers act as repositories
• Any time access of information
• Information on any topic
• Quality of information varies
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Search Engines
• Pub-Med Medline
• Medweb
• Altavista
• Webcrawler
• CDC
• MedExplorer
• Indian Medlars
• Infoseek• yahoo• hotbot• netscape• exite • google
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MEDLINE
• The most popular medical index
• Electronic adaptation of Index- Medicus
• Published by NLM, Bethesda
• Available in CD-ROM and internet
• Updated every month
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Quick Search
When using Quick-Searching feature a simple search is done by word, parts of words. When searching for words, the Quick-Searching feature will match whole words or parts of words
• For example: Bibliograph Would match
Bibliographies, Bibliography, Bibliographical, or anything else containing 'Bibliograph'.
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BiographyDoes Not Match
Biographies, Biographical, or any similar variation that does not
contain the whole word as typed in the search.
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Advanced Search
• Multiple word searches
• Entire phrases searches
• Boolean searches
• Other searches
can be done from Advanced Search.
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Boolean Searches
Available Keywords and
Example: Pulmonary and TuberculosisDescription: All search results will contain both terms " Pulmonary”
and “Tuberculosis" or
Example: Renal or Kidney
Description: Results will contain either the term "renal" or the term
"kidney".
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Boolean Searches
Available Keywords • not
Example: Tuberculosis not potts Description: Results will contain the term "tuberculosis" but not the term "potts".
• near
Example: Pulmonary near TuberculosisDescription: All search results will contain terms " Pulmonary tuberculosis”
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Literature Search Request
• Indian Medlars http://indmed.nic.in/
Provide requested literature after search on payment
• HAP India http://www.hapindia.org/
Provide requested literature after search free
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Web Address
• Indian Medlars http://indmed.nic.in/
• PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• http://www.cdc.gov/
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Web Address
• Webcrawler http://www.webcrawler.com/
• Medexplorer http://www.medexplorer.com
• Altavista http://www.altavista.com/
• Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com/
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Link to Web Address
Link to different Search Engines, Journals, Institutions,Organizations etc available on
http://kasarpk.tripod.com
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Thank You
Good luck for nice Search