Hi everyone this is Jeff from the Front Community College Library
today we're gonna talk about how to use the database PubMed
and have I link to our data on our our website under electronic databases
there's PubMed right there and PubMed is a medical database only
so you should only be using this database if you're looking for
medical articles and they're all going to be very high level articles
everything in here is going to be written at at a professional level
and so just be aware that there's nothing in here
that's going to be at a basic level but if that's the kind of information you want
you're a student in these areas then this would be a great database for you
now the link that I have on our website is gonna go directly into PubMed's
Advanced search page
because I think that the Advanced search page is much easier to use than their
general page
if you were to go online to PubMed
just on its own pubmed.gov
it's gonna bring up this screen which looks a little bit differently and you can
type in terms here and do searches
but it's going to be it's going to bring up so many articles that I think it's
pretty overwhelming
if you want to just go into if you're on the general
page in going to the Advanced search me and it'll take you to the screen that I
have up here.
So I'm gonna close that one and we're just gonna work in the Advanced search
now I'm gonna let's say I'm doing a search for diabetes articles
I type this in there's going to be so many articles that come back because this is a
huge database
I would probably over here in all fields I would change this to a certain field
I would say maybe diabetes needs to be in the titles of the articles
so diabetes has to be the title
how about in the next box I type in obesity and I could say maybe this one
doesn't have to be as specific I could go to
MeSH major topic this is their medical sub
medical subject headings so this is gonna be the subjects obesity has to be
major subject and diabetes has to be in the title
now if I want to get a preview for how many articles are gonna come back for that
I would click add to history you don't have to do this you just do a search but let
me get an idea
what we're looking at here if I click add to history it adds it down here and it gives
me a preview of how many articles it's gonna find
so it's gonna find 4,252 articles
now if we want we can just go in there and or we could say maybe
we could change some things up here so that we're seeing well maybe
that's too many articles but if we click on this
and before you don't need to do that
what I just did you could you could just do the search
but now that I have it down here or click here just so we can see those articles
okay so
we've got the four thousand two hundred fifty two articles now
what we can do maybe to one
think that's going to frustrate you with PubMed as opposed to some of the other
databases
a lot of these articles the full article is not here
the full text is not here if you want to get the full text what you can do is
click right over here on the left hand side
free full text available full text available and if you hit free full text
available, it's full text available: and free full text it'll
it'll give you any full text, so if I click there it's
it's gonna tell us how many of these are full articles so of those three
thousand the over three thousand were not full text so we're down to one
thousand full-text articles
that makes it a lot less daunting there's other
limits we could put on this if you would like let's say let's limit this to
articles about humans in
because there's articles about animals into that took about 150 articles
off there so about 150 those were
had to do with animals and let's say
in a clinical trial if you wanna see some actual original research on this
or maybe you want to see a review now review is nice if you're writing a paper
because it kinda gives you
a summary of all the information that's out there or maybe you're in a class that's
asked specifically for clinical trials
but if we click there we could that can limit it down to just a clinical trials
see now we're down to 128 so that huge
search becomes manageable pretty quickly so we're now down to a pretty good
pretty good range of articles here let me uh click on his first one here
in
ok so brings up brings up their citation for this
now you won't find the full text in here if you wanna see the full text what you
do look around it's usually on the right side there'll be a button
where you can go and find the the full text and sometimes it's here and really
to be honest with you, sometimes it's not here let's see if it's really here
so we click there it's going to take us to the this other website where the full
text should be here
and you have to kind of look around for it
let's see if we can find it so we have another abstract there
let's see if they give us the actual full text OK
and it's saying here we need to log in to read the full text so this is one
I want to purchase this article so this one would cost $32 dollars
this is what I find a lot with with PubMed it tells you the full text is
there it's not let's go back there was another link though
gave let's try this one here in
because it gave us several links to try to find the full text
It's kind of an obstacle course with PubMed okay so right here
if we look around a little bit here's the abstract if we look around there's the full
text right there
let's see if it's actually gonna give it to us okay so it actually gave
us the full text there's a 20 page article
you could download that right there you could print it out
everything you normally would do with a PDF so there's your full article
Let's
go back here in
So that's that's how you get that the full text you have to kinda look around a
little bit sometimes
I'm gonna close that now unfortunately
with PubMed there isn't a citation maker
so if you're going to have to cite these you're probably gonna have to cite them in
APA format
most medical classes and science classes
psychology classes most of the sciences including medical
classes require APA format instead MLA
and there is not at least not that I can find I can't find a
citation builder in here
so you're going to just have to put together citation using your APA manual
I'll put together another video to try to help you a little bit with that but
unfortunately there isn't any quick way into that let me go back here to the search
Let's go into another article take a look and see if we can find it
so here we go and again the full text should be right there
on the right. Let's see if it's actually there. It's always a question
with PubMed to see if it's actually there
O.K. I'm not gonna fill out their survey let's
go in here and let's see
click this PDF right there
There we go they gave it to us. It's an 11 page article and there is the full article
you can save it here you could print it out you can do whatever you would do
generally with a
with an article let's
close this here and let's go back
to the search so that's that's kinda that's
an introduction to how you to how you would you would do
searches in PubMed the one thing
that I have found that's interesting is let's go back to the search here
one thing that that's interesting is those those limits that I put on the last
search
are still going to be active for all future searches which may be good or
may be bad
any future searches I do when I go back to that advanced search screen within
this
session are still gonna have just a free full text which is good
it's gonna be limited to humans in its gonna be limited to clinical trial
now that may be what you want or may be not what you want I'm gonna clear those
so that I can start over from scratch and we've got the thing that's kind of
interesting we've got all this history of
everything I've done on here and you could combine these histories you can
search them again
whatever you want to do I'm just gonna start a new search here
I'm and you don't have to do this but I like
title is a good limiter since there's so many articles in here
Let me type in lymphoma
and let's see here
MeSH major topic say alcohol
is there any relation between lymphoma and alcohol do a search here and I'm just
gonna do a search now I'm not gonna
do the preview I'm just gonna do search
see if anything comes back so 131 so not
not too many let's see how many of these now we're gonna go through our thing to see
full text
free full text available
O.K. so 31 of those were full text articles
Let's make sure that's with humans so I click the human link there we're down to 18
I'm not going I'm not going to limit that any more because we're down to so
so many and
this is nice here that's a good one it's kind of leading me to the best ones here
I don't know if that one's gonna have full text though let's take a look here and see
if that one will have full text
well, theoretically we've got this little this little link this is where the full
text would be
I'm gonna click there and see if we can find that
so it's looking for this other page it's always gonna take you
for full text it's always gonna take you out to a separate link and sometimes with
more success
than others, this one is as you can see it's taking a while to load
let me kind of move this to the side while this is loading and read a little bit about this article
here
the abstract is really useful because you can really quickly I can
I can tell what we're talking about let me
minimize this here just let's just talk about the abstract for a second the abstract I
can
I can very quickly get an idea of what this is about
let me read through this whether an association between alcohol drinking and non hodgkins
lymphoma risk exists is an open question see this is exactly what I'm looking for
this is a study to try to figure that out
Yeah see this is exactly what I'm looking for
Let's see if um, in this link they took me to let's see if they give me the actual article
full text PDF let's see
and they did so here's this great article which is exactly what I'm
talking about
download this here, you could print it out
so perfect perfect great it's a great
database there's there's a lot of free full text in here, you just have to kinda
know how to use it
so and unfortunately like I said there there isn't an
a really easy way to cite this but I'll talk about this in a future
video how to do this and that I've got my
18 here, again any of these that we click on and so there
the interesting thing, I might want to redo this search with alcohol in the title since that's
really
what I'm looking for now we could go back we could go back
and change it or I'm gonna try to get little tricky here notice how up here this
search how it put it through there
is title in the little brackets there and I can change that here on the fly
so I'm gonna change that to title let me redo this search now
with alcohol and lymphoma in the title
now one thing that's interesting it kept my limits on there so it's already
searching for full text and already in humans
so these are the perfect articles they all have my term
lymphoma and alcohol and I just changed on the fly up here I didn't have to go
back to the advanced search
screen in uh let's see here
to open at this one again they have these
links over here and you can try to get the full text sometimes you can get it
sometimes it
it's not there or sometimes it's trying to get you to subscribe something let's see here
download pdf
and this is one another one with the trying to get us to buy something so
this one
I do not see a
I don't see the full text there so that's let's try this again
see if it'll yeah so this is something you're gonna run into a lot with it but
let's go back here let's try this one here this try the second link and see if they
if they give us the a the full text at this second link
click PDF
there it is 15 page article full text
so there you go it's a it's a great database you just kinda have to know how to
use it
so that's your introduction to PubMed
and let me know if you have any questions on this I'd be more than happy to work with
you one-on-one or in groups or over the phone or through email
on how to use this database thanks a lot this is Jeff
signing off