PubMed
PubMed
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Seminal, free, database produced by the National Library of Medicine
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Free NCBI account for saving search strategies and receiving email alerts (optional)
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No matter where in the world you go, you have access to PubMed (27 million citations)
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Not everything is full-text available (around 15%), so use the PubMed link from Rowan Campbell Library homepage for access to more full-text articles (Database Finder>>P>>PubMed)
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PubMed has MeSH built in (unique subject headings)
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23,000 MeSH, updated yearly
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MeSH is designed to search for synonyms on a topic for you (adolescent: will search for teen, teenager, youth)
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Learn more about MeSH: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/meshtutorial/introduction/
How to access MeSH database:
Sample search: Dinosaurs in MeSH
Use MeSH to help with narrowing and building your search strategy.
Getting access to Full-Text articles, click on the Get It Rowan button.
To save citations to your RefWorks account use the Save to RefWorks button
Another way to search PubMed used by power searches and if you know your terms and are confident:
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dinosaur[TI]
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This will search for terms that you enter only in the specified field that you indicate in this case Title [TI]
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dino* will search for variant of the root word such as dinosaur, dinosaurs etc.
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Other popular fields [TIAB] = Title OR Abstract [AU] = Author [AD] = affiliation
For complete list of search tags
Exporting PubMed citations into RefWorks
Video on how to export citations from PubMed into RefWorks
Additional PubMed resources: