BUMC MEDLINE PLUS/OVID TUTORIAL

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Boston University Medical Center
TUTORIAL MENU
 
Tutorial Home
Instructions for Using the Tutorial
Developing Your Search Strategy
Formulating Your Question
Choosing An Appropriate Database
Selecting the Best Search Terms
Advantages and Disadvantages of Text Word and Title Word Searching
Selecting the Best Medical Subject Headings
Quiz Section I: Text Word vs. MeSH Searching
Mapping Function
Subheadings
Tree Display
Explode Function
Focus Function
Combining Sets
Quiz Section II: Combining Sets
Limiting
Quiz Section III: Reviewing the Explode, Focus, Subheadings, and Limit Options
Viewing or Displaying Search Results
Full Text Options
Printing, E-Mailing, and Saving Search Results
Ordering Articles
Searching Tips, Hints, & Reminders
Tutorial Evaluation
ADDITIONAL TOPICS
OVID's Main Menu Icons
Author Searching
Title Word Searching
Journal Searching
OTHER RESOURCES
Searching for Evidence in the Primary Medical Literature Tutorial: EBM Tutorial
More Information about BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID
Direct-entry Commands: enable users to bypass menu options
OVID Documentation
CHOOSING AN APPROPRIATE DATABASE

MEDLINE is sold by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to commercial vendors and software producers. The NLM also mounts its own MEDLINE system, PubMed, on the Internet.

The Alumni Medical Library of the Boston University Medical Center subscribes to MEDLINE on the OVID software, and has named our system, BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID.

The OVID "Database Selection" screen below shows you the databases and time ranges that are available for searching:

O V I D Choose a databaseHelp

 
select a database to search
 
-- To begin a search, click the name of the desired database.
-- To get more information about a database, click the information icon: Database Information
Journals@Ovid Full Text
MEDLINE 1996 to the Present
MEDLINEŽ In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations
MEDLINE 1966 to the Present
MEDLINE November 2002 to the Present
MEDLINE Daily Update
MEDLINE 1966 to 1995
MEDLINE 1993 to 1995
MEDLINE 1989 to 1992
MEDLINE 1982 to 1988
MEDLINE 1966 to 1981
CINAHL 1982 to the Present
EBM Reviews Full Text - Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, and DARE
All EBM Reviews - Cochrane DSR, ACP Journal Club, DARE, and CCTR
EBM Reviews - ACP Journal Club
EBM Reviews - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
Your Journals@Ovid

Most searchers use the MEDLINE "front file" which dates from 1996 to the present time.

   
 
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