# Presentation: 704319

## The PubMed® Game

**Designed for librarians & library staff**

*From PubMed for Experts**Brought to you by ****NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region****March, 2007**rev 2.  5x5*

**Notes:**
Created by Kay Deeney, NN/LM PSR, December, 2006. 
kdeeney@library.ucla.edu  

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**Basic **
**PubMed**

**MeSH**

**PubMed**
**Trivia**

**Searching**

**What’s**
**New!**

**Notes:**
You can divide the class in two, and switch from one side of the room to the other. Other members on the same “team” can help a person answer a question.  Or you can just ask each person a question. 
Keeping score isn’t necessary. 

On each of the following page, the PubMed icon links to PubMed! 

## This free full text item is designated by the green and orange bar page icon.

- This free full text item is designated by the green and orange bar page icon.

## What is a PubMed Central journal citation?

## This is implied between items entered in the PubMed Search box.

## What is AND?

*Remember to ALWAYS capitalize the Boolean operators, AND, OR, NOT!*

## The truncation symbol in PubMed...

## What is the asterisk?

*While adjacency searching is not available in PubMed, by putting an asterisk after the second term—this forces PubMed to treat the terms as a phrase.** *

## Describes an aspect of, or qualifies a MeSH heading...

## What is a Subheading?

*Can be attached directly to a MeSH heading, knee/ab or “floating” **knee AND ab [sh]*

## This feature shows you how PubMed translates the terms you put in the search box.

## What is Details?

## The number of MeSH headings assigned to an article.

## What are 10-15 headings?

**Notes:**
9-12 is also acceptable!

## In the Citation display this indicates that a MeSH heading is the major emphasis of an article.

## What is the asterisk?

*Tip: By looking at the Citation display, you may get ideas from the MeSH headings to enhance or refine your search!*

## MeSH terms automatically do this to expand or increase your retrieval...

## What is explode?

## SIDS, cot death, crib death or death, crib are examples of these for Sudden Infant Death... 

## What are Entry Terms?

*Entry terms are often considered synonyms.*

**Notes:**
Entry terms are synonyms for the main heading. You can also use these (to save typing), but watch out for the text words if you JUST use the term. IE, aids will give you acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, but it will also give you nursing or hearing AIDS as text words. 

## In the MeSH Database, this is an easy way to get to the NLM MeSH Browser...

## What is through the Links on the right of a heading?

*Or you can also click on ****MeSH ****in the MeSH Database, then enter your term.*** **

## The number in millions of citations PubMed includes...

## What is 17!?

## The maximum number of My NCBI searches that you can store in one account.

## What is 100 per user name?

*You can create an unlimited number of user accounts*

## Used in Limits & Single Citation Matcher, this helps you find the exact journal or author names.

## What is the Autocomplete feature?

**Notes:**
Most people don’t remember what this is called. Demo if necessary. 

## The maximum amount of time items are stored in the Clipboard.

## What is 8 hours?

*Same goes for HISTORY.*

## The most common Publication Type in PubMed...

## What is a Journal article?

## Allows you to select languages, age groups, subsets, publication types, years, etc.

## What are Limits?

*You can even search for Authors and Journals now!*

**Notes:**
Features of Limits vie with the Single Citation Matcher nowadays. Demo if necessary.

## Proves that a little bit of knowledge goes a long way. Useful for finding a particular citation when you only have a few details. 

## What is the Single Citation Matcher?

## Adding any of these to the words in the search box will turn off Automatic Term Mapping...

## What are asterisks (truncation), quotes around terms, OR hyphens between words?

## Where one searches for Evidence-based Medicine articles...

## What are Clinical Queries?

## LIFO is an abbreviation for this...

## What is Last In, First Out?

**Notes:**
Also considered a Marketing term. 

## This PubMed citation display includes Related Articles links...

## What is AbstractPlus?

## Maximum number of active filters allowed for PubMed in MY NCBI.

**Notes:**
Goto My NCBI to demo.

## What is 5 active filters?

*Examples are particular library holdings, free full text, English & Human, Review*

**Notes:**
May be useful to demo here. 

## Brief tutorials, these help-features usually take only 3-5 minutes of your time...

## What are the Quick Tours?http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html

- What are the Quick Tours?http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html

**Notes:**
Click through to demo. 

## Often overlooked, these link to previously created PubMed searches covering topics such as Healthy People 2010, Cancer and Health Literacy...

## What are the Special Queries?

**Notes:**
Useful to demo these. 

## This is how one finds a list of the most Commonly-Requested Filters through MY NCBI...

## What is the Tool icon? 

- What is the Tool icon?

*This page is also labeled as “Quick Pick” on the Filter Selection menu*