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- Title
How to improve your PubMed/MEDLINE searches: 3. advanced searching, MeSH and My NCBI.
- Authors
Fatehi, Farhad; Gray, Leonard C; Wootton, Richard
- Abstract
Although the basic PubMed search is often helpful, the results may sometimes be non-specific. For more control over the search process you can use the Advanced Search Builder interface. This allows a targeted search in specific fields, with the convenience of being able to select the intended search field from a list. It also provides a history of your previous searches. The search history is useful to develop a complex search query by combining several previous searches using Boolean operators. For indexing the articles in MEDLINE, the NLM uses a controlled vocabulary system called MeSH. This standardised vocabulary solves the problem of authors, researchers and librarians who may use different terms for the same concept. To be efficient in a PubMed search, you should start by identifying the most appropriate MeSH terms and use them in your search where possible. My NCBI is a personal workspace facility available through PubMed and makes it possible to customise the PubMed interface. It provides various capabilities that can enhance your search performance.
- Subjects
MEDLINE; INFORMATION resources; DATABASE searching; BOOLEAN searching; ELECTRONIC information resource searching; INFORMATION retrieval
- Publication
Journal of Telemedicine & Telecare, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 2, p102
- ISSN
1357-633X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1357633X13519036