Tutorial Instructions

Searchable Questions

About MEDLINE

Keyword/Textword

Searching

Medical Subject Headings

Overview 1

Mapping

Subheadings

MeSH Tree

Explode

Focus

Combining (AND, OR)

Combining Overview

Limiting

Displaying Results

Full Text Articles

Printing/E-Mailing/Saving

Ordering Articles

Searching MEDLINE is a step-building process. There are five basic steps in each search:

Step in the Search Process:	Click Here to View Description of the Step:
1. Search
2. Combine
3. Limit
4. Display
5. Print / E-Mail / Download

This tutorial will teach you how to perform each step in the search process to find journal literature to answer a clinical or research question.