Information Literacy
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is this kind of publication.
What is scholarly literature?
This Boolean operator broadens your search by retrieving ANY of the terms specified
What is OR
Randomized controlled trials are easily found in a section of PubMed.
What is Clinical Queries?
Smartphone, underage drinking, and medical marijuana are all examples of this special thesaurus.
What is MeSH or Medical Subject Headings?
All fields in a PubMed record can be viewed in this format from the format drop-down menu.
What is MEDLINE?
There is a special word for copying another person's work and turning it in as your own.
What is plagiarism?
The concept Patient is represented in a 4-letter acronym to create an answerable clinical question.
What is PICO?
Retrieval can be narrowed by year, publication type and more in PubMed using this simple technology.
What are filters?
[tiab] searches only these parts of a MEDLINE record.
What are the title and abstract fields?
The best searches result from combining both of these types of terms.
What are textwords and Mesh terms?
This is when you repeat a statement from a book or article, but use different words.
What is paraphrasing?
This Boolean operator combines concepts.
What is AND?
Click on the dark blue Pitt-UPMC button on the right side in the Abstract view of an article.
What is the best way to get full-text?
This field is designated [au].
What is Author?
Use these terms to find new un-indexed articles
What is a textword?
This is the reference to the original source or statement in a text.
What is a citation?
This Boolean operator combines synonyms.
What is OR?
This feature at the top of a PubMed search retrieval sorts by publication date, author, journal or article title.
What is the Sort-by drop-down menu?
This number found at the bottom of every PubMed citation is a unique identifier, and can itself be used as a search term.
What is a PMID?
Systematic Reviews can be found in this PubMed special resource.
What is Clinical Queries?
This is a brief note at the bottom of a page.
What is a footnote?
Medical Subject Headings is the indexing system for MEDLINE, the largest medical database in PubMed. However, it is known by another shorter name.
What is MeSH?
PubMed is a service of this, the largest medical library in the world, part of the National Institutes of Health.
What is the National Library of Medicine?
Use this online system to store searches, citations found, and to customize the PubMed search interface.
What is My NCBI?
The PubMed controlled vocabulary uses this technology to find articles that may use synonyms for searched concepts.
What is Automatic Term Mapping or ATM?