BUMC MEDLINE Plus/Ovid Tutorial

BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID Tutorial

Boston University Medical Center
Alumni Medical Library

Tutorial Menu Options
		Tutorial Home

		Instructions for Using this Tutorial
		Developing Your Search Strategy
		Formulating Your Question
		Choosing An Appropriate Database
		Selecting the Best 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
		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 Tutorial Topics
		Explaining OVID's Main Menu Icons
		Searching for a Specific Author
		Searching for Title Words
		Searching for Journal Names
For More Information...
You will exit this tutorial when you click on the links below:
Searching for Evidence in the Primary Medical Literature Tutorial
Alumni Medical Library Web Site
More Information about BUMC MEDLINE Plus/OVID
Direct-entry Commands for BUMC MEDLINE Plus: enable users to bypass menu options
OVID Documentation (in PDF, Adobe Acrobat required)

MEDLINE
<1996 to the present>

Notice the results in set #4:
204 of the original 240 articles from set #3 are in ENGLISH, and deal with HUMAN subjects.

It is usually a good idea to try the most logical limits first, take a look at the results, then apply secondary limits separately.

If there are other logical limiting options to apply to this search, we can limit again now. For example, we could now limit to "local holdings" to find the journals owned at BU libraries. Or, we could limit to "review" articles.

# Search History Results Display

1
*estrogen replacement therapy/
3200 Display

2
exp *heart diseases/
98882 Display

3
1 and 2
240 Display

4
limit 3 to (human and english language)
204 Display

Let's review what you have learned about exploding, focusing, subheadings, and limiting. Then, you can test your knowledge using a few quiz items.
After that, we'll move on to VIEWING/DISPLAYING search results and PRINTING.

Enter Keyword or phrase:

Map Term to Subject Heading

Limit to:

Ovid Full Text Available Human English Language Review Articles Abstracts Local Holdings EBM Reviews Latest Update

Publication Year -