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The PubMed® GameDesigned for librarians & library staff
From PubMed for ExpertsBrought to you by NN/LM Pacific Southwest RegionFebruary 2013rev 5. 5x4
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MeSH PubMed
Trivia
Searching
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What is AND?
Remember to ALWAYS capitalize the Boolean operators, AND, OR, NOT!
A digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
with free full text…
What is the asterisk?
While adjacency searching is not available in PubMed, by putting an asterisk after the second term—this
forces PubMed to treat the terms as a phrase.
What is a Subheading?
Can be attached directly to a MeSH heading, knee/ab or “floating”
knee AND ab [sh]
What is explode?
To NOT explode the term, you can select either
“Do Not Explode this term” from the MeSH Database or
add [Mesh:NoExp] to the term.
In the listing of MeSH headings, this symbol indicates the major
emphasis of an article…
What is the asterisk?
Tip: By looking at the MeSH headings, you may get ideas to enhance or refine
your search!
Nasal bleedings, nose bleeds ornosebleed are examples of these
for the MeSH heading, Epistaxis…
The option that one chooses in order to export citations into a
reference management program...
The maximum amount of time items are available in history on
the Advanced search page…
What is the 8 hours?
The history will be lost after 8 hours of inactivity on PubMed or other
NCBI databases
In My NCBI, this records up to 6 months of searches and citations
that you have looked at…
What is Recent Activity?
Remember, the Recent Activity only works if you are logged into your My
NCBI account!
This PubMed “sidebar” is designed to locate additional
literature when a search retrieves a small, but relevant list of
citations…
This feature shows you how PubMed translates the terms you
put in the search box…
What is 15 active filters?
You can save a larger number, but you can only display up to 15!
What is the Clipboard?
From the clipboard, you can then print, email or save the citations as a
file. To save indefinitely, add to a collection.
These brief tutorials usually take only 3-5 minutes of your time to learn about PubMed searching…
Often overlooked, these link to previously created PubMed
searches covering topics such as Healthy People 2020, Cancer and
Health Literacy…
