Information Skills for Health

 A message from nhse regarding the impact of the US gov shutdown on pubmed and medline: -------------- If you have visited a US government funded website in the past few days, you may have noticed a warning like this: "Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted. The NIH Clinical Center (the research hospital of NIH) is open. For more details about its operating status, please visit  cc.nih.gov . Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at  opm.gov ." What does this mean for NHS users? If you subscribe to auto-alerts from PubMed or Medline (from either of our commercial suppliers, Ovid or EBSCO), you may notice that you don’t receive any new records for a couple of weeks. If the shut-down lasts for longer than anticipate...

 Have you got an article reference and want to find the full-text? Does your reference include the DOI or PMID? DOI is the digital object identifier. This is a code which uniquely identifies an article. So, no matter which platform the article is hosted on or even if the publisher changes, the article will have the same DOI. PMID is the pubmed identifier. This is a reference number for the article held on the Pubmed database. You will always see a PMID for an article if you are searching on Pubmed. Here is an example of a reference: Ultrasound-guided genicular nerves block vs. local infiltration analgesia for total knee arthroplasty: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial, Cuñat et al Anaesthesia, 2023 Feb;78(2):188-196. doi: 10.1111/anae.15909 PMID: 36351436 . I’ve highlighted in bold the DOI and the Pubmed ID: see them below: DOI = 10.1111/anae.15909 PMID = 36351436 You can now use these bits of the reference to find whether the library has the full-text...

What is it? The PubMed Single Citation Matcher is a really useful tool that can help you to find the full reference details of an article. Key Features You can enter the various bibliographic details of the article you need, then click search and PubMed will try to find the abstract for you. Screen-shot of PubMed Single citation Matcher For example you may be missing the volume and issue details, or can’t quite remember the journal title where you read an article; just enter the details you have and PubMed will try to find it. If you are looking for the full-text you can then use the reference details to find the article on our journal lists. How to access it? PubMed Single Citation Matcher is freely available on the Internet. eTutorial For more help finding the full-text of a reference: Here’s how to  find the full-text from a Reference Here’s how to  find a Keele eJournal Here’s how to  find an NHS Journal More help? You’ll ...

What is it? Pubmed is a freely available, online, searchable, bibliographic database, which includes data from Medline. You can use it to complement and supplement your literature searching. Key Features You use the main text box to enter your simple free-text search terms or the more sophisticated advanced search options to combine searches and apply limits. The results list will often include links to freely available article pdfs, though you will need to check on our journal lists for access to most journal titles. The search results list can be filtered, emailed or exported. If you sign-up and create a free login you can also save your searches and set up alerts. How can it help you? Pubmed is a useful extra database for you to search as part of your literature searching. As well as including Medline it does include a number of additional scientific databases. How to access it? Pubmed is freely available on the Internet to search. Note that you ma...

If you have only part of a reference or you want to do a quick check on all the details, then try the Pubmed single citation matcher . Enter as many details that you have and pubmed will search for it to try to retrieve the articles that match the details you have entered. Here is an example of a search: Screen-shot of Pubmed Single Citation Matcher Here is the article it found: Screen-shot of result of Pubmed citation matcher