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Information Literacy
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Advanced Searching
100
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is not a casual consumer magazine. It's another more serious kind.
What is scholarly literature?
100
This Boolean operator broadens your search by retrieving ANY of the terms specified
What is OR
100
Randomized controlled trials are easily found in a section of PubMed.
What is Clinical Queries?
100
Smartphone, underage drinking, and medical marijuana are all examples of this special collection of words.
What is MeSH or Medical Subject Headings?
100
PubMed is searchable by database fields, available through the format drop-down menu?
What are MEDLINE database fields?
200
There is a special word for copying another person's work and turning it in as your own.
What is plagiarism?
200
The concept Patient is represented in a 4-letter acronym an answerable clinical question
What is PICO?
200
Retrieval can be narrowed by year, publication type and more in PubMed using this simple technology.
What are filters?
200
[tiab] searches only these parts of a MEDLINE record.
What are the title and abstract fields?
200
The best searches result from combining both of these types of terms.
What are textwords and Mesh terms?
300
This is when you repeat a statement from a book or article, but use different words.
What is paraphrasing?
300
This Boolean operator combines concepts.
What is AND?
300
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?
300
This field is designated [au].
What is Author?
300
Use these terms to find new un-indexed articles
What is a textword?
400
This is the reference to the original source or statement, so that it can be found.
What is a citation?
400
This Boolean operator combines synonyms.
What is OR
400
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?
400
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?
400
Systematic Reviews can be found in this PubMed Resource.
What is Clinical Queries?
500
This is a brief note at the bottom of a page.
What is a footnote?
500
Medical Subject Headings is the indexing system for MEDLINE, the medical database in PubMed. However, it is known by another shorter name.
What is MeSH?
500
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?
500
Use this online system to store searches, citations found, and to customize the PubMed search interface.
What is My NCBI?
500
The PubMed controlled vocabulary automatically finds all articles that may use synonyms for the same concepts.
What is Mesh?