we're gonna talk today a little bit about PubMed I'll give you a quick overview I'll talk about some tips for finding on topic articles oh sorry I will show you two strategies for searching the first one is what we call kind of a quick and dirty search so there are some things you can do if you just need a handful of articles and I will show you how to do that and then there is the more systematic approach when you need a more robust search so for those who say they were interested in finding evidence for patient care the first search would be a really good way to do it and also even if you're doing a more robust search I would say start with this kind of quick and dirty search to see what's out there before you really start developing that systematic approach so both of these approaches are going to be very useful and then at the end I will show you how to set up some alerts and save your results you can even send them to a citation manager like refworks or endnote any of those and I'll also stay on to answer any questions that people have so so that's what we're doing okay so PubMed is produced through the National Library of Medicine and the reason I always bring that up is because PubMed is free anybody can access it as long as you have internet and that is wonderful but one of the things you have to keep in mind is if you want to access the journal articles and the resources that Hopkins is paying big money for you to be able to access you have to go to the library website to get into PubMed and I'll show that in just a minute so go to our website access PubMed that way and that way you'll be able to get the full-text of those articles although more and more articles are becoming open access and available through PubMed which is great news for those who aren't affiliated with a university it is one of the largest biomedical databases the number it's like the McDonald's sign the number keeps changing so now we're at 30 million citations I have to update my slide and it provides access to many things but one of the things that provides access to is MEDLINE so I have seen a lot of confusion here with the word MEDLINE and the word PubMed they do not mean the same thing MEDLINE actually is content it's most of the content of PubMed but you can access MEDLINE through other databases you can access it through something called EBSCO host you can access it through ProQuest through Ovid so MEDLINE is those journal articles that you're trying to get your hands on and PubMed is the way that you access it it's the shell or the database that we're using to get our hands on to MEDLINE so PubMed provides you with those citations from MEDLINE but it also gives you other things there are some books that PubMed is providing you with it's also providing you with access to newer things newer articles that haven't been indexed in MEDLINE as yet and also older articles what we call old PubMed that also you wouldn't normally find in MEDLINE so if you're used to using MEDLINE through a different database I've noticed in a lot of systematic reviews teams are switching over to PubMed because they are finding that they are finding more resources through PubMed that they might miss out on if they use MEDLINE in a different capacity a different way and so the last thing to know about our MEDLINE or PubMed that we're searching is that it uses a controlled vocabulary so for those people who are like why do I need PubMed I can just use Google Scholar it's got everything it probably does have a lot of things but it doesn't this control vocabulary operating behind the scenes to really help you search efficiently and effectively and we'll talk more about that in this course how that control vocabulary can help you okay so for this course we'll do two questions one will do just to show you how to do the quick and dirty search and the other question I'll use to show you the more systematic search that you would do in a comprehensive comprehensive search engine and this poll sorry let me just close that okay so our first question is what is the risk of Oakland misuse among those with chronic pain I have been involved in a lot of research there are a lot of teams out at Hopkins that are focused on the opioid crisis and so this would be more of a search that will do if you just want a few really high quality pieces of evidence on this question and then the second question I know there's a lot of interest right now with Cova and the fact that people are not coming in to get health care but there's a lot of remote help so this question is what apps are being used to help those with hypertension eat more healthy diets and perhaps you're thinking of developing an app and you want to see what others have done so those are our two questions okay so let me go into PubMed and again as I said you want to get into it through the Welch library website so here's our website welch jhm IE d you and here's pubmed right here now you might have noticed if you have used PubMed before that this is a completely new look they launched it they threatened to launch it for months and months but I think last month it actually became live it's the main the main PubMed that you're gonna search if you are like I just can't handle this right now I want my old PubMed if you go back to our website we have a link here for PubMed legacy and that will get you to the old PubMed what I'm going to show everything in new PubMed so that you get used to using it seeing it and how to use it okay so for our question about opioid misuse and chronic pain the nice thing about PubMed is we can just type it in I can type in my words opioid misuse chronic pain spell everything right hit go okay and now I'm not getting a huge number of results but a lot of times in PubMed you do your search and you're getting 10,000 results if I were to search cancer I believe it's in millions of results so there are some things you can do to your search just it'll take you five seconds and it will help immensely the first one is if you have let me make this a little bigger let's see if that helps okay if you have phrases opioid misuse put them in quotes and this what this is gonna do is it's gonna tell PubMed to search for that phrase and not break it up otherwise it's just looking for that word opioid in a word and misuse it's splitting them up it's doing all kinds of crazy things but if you keep it in quotes it knows that we want this specific phrase and you might notice I put an end in between those two terms by default PubMed is assuming that you want an and in there it's just adding it in there and you don't even notice but I'm going to type it in there and I'm going to type it in all caps yes capitalization does matter I had a search go completely off last week and I couldn't figure out what was going on and I asked a colleague and they looked at it and they're like you're not using caps for your boolean operators so you need to do Katz okay so we do it in quotes it already drops down the number and the results are gonna start to look a little bit better now one more thing I'm going to do and this here this is the trick you just want a few really high-quality on topic articles the first thing I do is I do this bracket TI closed bracket I'm gonna do it on both of them bracket closed up sorry bracket TI closed bracket anyone want to guess what that does you can just type it in the chat box so what happens when I use a TI at the end of my phrase yeah Christy got it right away title TI stands for title and I'm saying I just want those terms in the title again when I'm just getting started on a topic this is a quick way to do it I'm already down to 63 results I know they're gonna be on topic because they're talking about chronic pain and opioid misuse and I can start to scroll through these and look at them now that might feel too restrictive he might be like oh oh wait a minute I know that people publish articles and they're not using that word they're not using the right terms so I can make it a little bit bigger I can do T IAB but that does so TI was titled what do you think TI a bee does yep yes yes you got it abstract title and abstract and right now I'm not viewing my abstracts but I like oh well maybe I am I always like to switch to abstract with you and that way I can scroll through and I can just read the abstract keep on going read the abstract that way I don't have to click as much I can just look at everything all at once and what you'll start to notice is that the articles are coming up because opioid misuse chronic pain are in the title and abstract let me go back to some review okay so two two steps you can do all of a sudden your search is gonna be much more on topic if you want those high quality articles the other thing I would suggest it's the limit by the type of articles you're looking at so here we go on the Left there's all kinds of ways to filter and I'm gonna go to article type and I can choose systematic review and if you're gonna do a systematic review of your own the first thing I would recommend doing is go into PubMed and see if somebody else has published a systematic review on your topic and how current is that systematic review because I don't want you to go and put 18 months of work into doing a systematic review and then you try to publish it and the journals say mmm no this has already been done and it's it's recent then we don't need another systematic review on this topic so it's a really good idea all around to limit to systematic reviews and see what else has been out there here we have even more of a review we have a review of reviews so there you go look at these articles they're gonna give you ideas about terminology that you can be using they're going to give you ideas about articles that you should try to find and they're gonna give you some really high quality evidence now another limit you can put on here is randomized controlled trials so if we just start out looking at randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews of our topic we limit 2t i-a B and we put our phrase phrases and quotes right there those are the steps that I would say are gonna get you a really nice set of articles okay I'm looking at a question from Jonathan do you just learn the best flow start broad then go to title then go to title abstract trial-and-error experience what's best um it really depends on your goals and so as I'm saying as I've been saying like when you're starting out I usually if your goal is to just get started and get your feet wet in the topic see what's out there I start with this ti but the reason that they're all are all these options is this is more of an art than a science I know you want like a lockstep first do this then do that do that then do this but did you have these options and that's why there's all these tools out there I would start with the tea I look at those 10 results see how they're doing and also look for some other terms that you can use and then you can broaden it up to tea IAB and you'll get a few more articles so I start small and then I brought in but really it's a preference some people are super comfortable looking through 10,000 results they don't bat an eye so they don't like this approach of starting small they want to start big and then get smaller it's really what you're comfortable with if we want to make this a little bit bigger I would start adding some synonyms so opioid misuse notice I put in a parenthesis and I'm gonna say or opioid abuse again I'm keeping that TI a B close parenthesis now you can add as many synonyms as you want there are several other ways to refer to opioid misuse right we can do opioid dependence opioid addiction we could keep going but you're always gonna use an or because we're telling PubMed this term or that term are good either one and then you have to put it in parenthesis because that is keeping them together and that way PubMed doesn't get confused if you don't have these parentheses PubMed doesn't know are you saying opioid misuse for opioid abuse and chronic it just doesn't know what's going on so you keep your or terms in parentheses and then you hit search and every or term you add in it makes it a little bit bigger okay so that is my quick and dirty in five you know five minutes that's what I would do just to get started on your search to find a few high quality articles the new pubmed also has a nice publication date limit we can do one year five years ten years I was noticing that it was doing like last month but that seems to be missing right now so we can do the last year and again we're looking at the most current another thing to note is that this best match you see how it says sorted by best match PubMed is using an algorithm behind the scenes it's an extremely complicated algorithm and there's a video I'll point you to that we just made at the Welsh library that you can watch if you want to know what's going on behind the scenes but PubMed is trying to put the best articles the most relevant articles at the top and then as you scroll down they'll go they'll go from most to least relevant and so that is the best match it's not always perfect but I've been noticing it's pretty good if you're like I don't want PubMed to tell me what it thinks is relevant I want to have control you can switch from best match to most recent or publication date so when I'm when I'm searching I want to have control I I don't you know PubMed is green it's very helpful but I want to be able to see the very most recent articles at the top and I'll decide if it's relevant or not so I usually switch that to publication date and then we can scroll down you'll see that they're going to get older and older okay so that's the quick and dirty search does anyone have any questions about that approach ah what's the difference between publication date and most recent I'm glad you asked because I had no idea and then I looked it up so publication date is the actual date that the article was published most recent is when it was added into PubMed so publication date is what you would want to sort by if you want to look at the newest article to oldest article makes sense okay any other questions before we move on okay great fantastic let me get my PowerPoint back up okay so like I said you can just throw some terms in the search box but you are at PubMed search like a pro so we are gonna get a little more sophisticated than that and for this finding a few on-topic results I would recommend these field tags for sure' and then using the filters publication types the years you can limit by English as well okay so now moving on to a more sophisticated way to search that involves using controlled vocabulary how many of you have heard of this term mesh is this a new phrase for y'all you can just put in the search boxes if you feel comfortable with mesh or you've heard what meshes okay okay okay okay great not not familiar there's some people where this is new okay so I will give you the lowdown so like I said there's this controlled vocabulary happening behind the scenes in PubMed and I'm gonna use those words synonymously mesh and controlled vocabulary many databases have a controlled vocabulary that they used to index their articles but in MEDLINE or in PubMed we call it mesh and let me talk about why it exists or why controlled vocabulary exists so let's consider that these are all the articles on a topic perhaps we are searching for articles on the ICU now there's a problem because you know I might be thinking in my head ICU but that doesn't mean that's what the authors are using they might not been using that phrase they might be thinking of other terms so if I just searched for ICU I'm gonna miss out on a lot of articles right so if I just search for ICU I'm getting you know with my little visual diagram here I'm getting four of the articles but it looks like oh my gosh a lot of authors are actually talking about intensive care and they're not using this ICU so I'm gonna miss out on all those articles I'm gonna miss out on any articles where authors talk about NICU or PICU and it goes on from there so if we were just searching with these terms and hoping that articles come up then what that means is we have to be really thorough about thinking about every possible term and author might use and that's exhausting it takes a lot of time so what has happened is these databases have developed controlled vocabulary and they index all the articles there are actual people who read all the articles in MEDLINE and when they index it they tagged it with a standardized term so the official term here for ICU is intense of care unit any article that has to do with this concept is gonna be tagged with that mesh and so when we search with that mesh all the articles will come up that have been tagged with it regardless of how the author's refer to that term so if an author or first do it as an ICU doesn't matter it's gonna if it has that mesh and we search by it we're gonna get the article so using mesh saves us time it's more efficient it's gonna pull up articles that we might not even even thought of to look for so that's nice in a nutshell did that make sense to the people who are like I never heard of mesh or mesh is kind of new to me I'll show you how it works when we go into the database but that's the basic ideas great excellent okay so mesh is wonderful I've just said you know it saves you time and you could just search using this control vocabulary I'll show you how to find it and how to use it but if you're gonna do a sophisticated search a more involved search I would say you want to use a mix of controlled vocabulary and keywords and there's a reason for that there's a couple of reasons for that so sometimes there aren't controlled vocabulary sometimes there is no mesh for your term when everything started to hit with Kovac there was no controlled vocabulary there was no mesh for kovin because there weren't enough articles at the beginning to warrant a mesh term and mesh only gets added into MEDLINE once a year now this was a special occasion or special circumstance where MEDLINE was like whoa we need a mesh term for this and so now there is a mesh term for kovat 19 they added it pretty quickly on but in most cases it takes a year two years for mesh to get added with new concepts so if we only search with that mesh we're missing out on articles that haven't been tagged a lot of the technology terms like augmented reality text messaging smart phones it's taken a while for those to become official mesh terms and then the other thing is it takes a while for those indexers who work for MEDLINE to actually index articles sometimes I can take up to six months and we as researchers want that new current research so if we're only using mesh we're going to miss out on those new articles that are coming out that haven't been indexed and so what we typically do is we'll stick with that mesh and then we'll add in some keywords just to make sure we haven't missed out on the new articles and the articles that haven't been on the new articles and then especially if we're searching a concept that doesn't have a mesh term okay so let me show you how that works and if you remember our question backing up a little bit okay if you remember our question mobile apps being used to help those with hypertension eat more healthy diets so a question like that we're going to pull out the search terms and we're going to search one term at a time so we're going to search mobile apps we're going to search hypertension and then we're going to search diets and what we're doing is called a building block approach we're going to search each concept separately and then we're going to combine them all together so think of I always think of Lego blocks and I think of building some kind of Lego block tower with my search terms I don't know if that helps or not but let's start with our first block here so we have mobile applications and I'll show you a couple ways to find oh I got to clear all those limits I added in there okay we were looking for mobile apps hyper attention and died so let me show you a couple ways to find the mesh we've just said how wonderful mesh is it starts out with there we go okay it starts out with finding the mesh that would be useful if we can get into an article we can scroll down in that article and all of the mesh terms that are tagged to it are right here we can look at those so remember that index our reading every article tagging them with the appropriate terms those all live down here and let's see I see one right here mobile applications looks like a mesh that I want to use if you see a star at the end that star says that this is a major concept of the article so our article is focusing on diet therapy it's focusing on mobile applications and it's focusing on salt dietary salt if we want to go and look further at this mesh term I'm going to click on it and I can go into the mesh database it's a whole separate database just for mesh okay it looks a lot like PubMed right I really wish they would make the mesh database like Brent green or something completely different so you know you're in a new database but just believe me you are if you ever get confused it says mesh and it says mesh right there we are in the mesh database and this is the record for that mesh term mobile applications we can see a definition and we can see the year that this became an official mesh term so remember I said in January once a year new terms get added this one was added in 2014 we will miss out on any older articles older than 2014 if we just use this mesh because they wouldn't be tagged to it so again that's why we use those keywords and then another thing to point out here there's this long list right here called entry terms these are not more mesh these are the terms that if an author uses any of these terms their articles going to get tagged with mobile applications so this is a great place to go to look for additional synonyms or keywords that we can add to our search and we'll get back to that later but if I like this mesh term and I want to use it I'm going to add it to my search builder let's make that a little bigger notice here I clicked on add to search builder notice that it's put it in quotes and then it's used bracket M esh mesh closed bracket so this is the exact syntax that PubMed needs to know that we're looking for the mesh I wanted to I could search it in PubMed and I will just get articles tagged with this mesh but as I just said we're gonna do we're gonna do a mixed search where we have control vocabulary and keywords so what are some other ways that we can say mobile applications I'm gonna do or mobile occasions you can just type in the search box what are some other synonyms that we could use here we want to make sure we're not missing out on articles so it's it's good to think of a few give you guys a minute to think what are some other words for mobile applications oK we've got mobile apps phone apps cool I like it I see a lot of times and health okay I won't push it digit I like digital lab that's a good one okay now plural or singular we can do for any of these terms right now what I used to be able to do in PubMed this mobile applications I used to be able to go down a PP and put an asterisk at the end of that and what that does is truncate so that's called truncation and this would pick up app apps application applications any of those variations that come after the P but the new PubMed has made my life a little bit harder it has made your life a little bit harder because the new ruling is you have to have four letters to truncate you can't just do a P P it won't work you would need one more letter here so what that means is we have to do we can do application with an asterisk and that will get our singular or plural or mobile apps or mobile app it's kind of frustrating and I'm also going to add those quotes around my phrases so you can see in this box here I can build my search as I go mobile applications I have the mesh and then I have those and then let's get did I lose them let's get these terms that other people suggested phone apps we can truncate that to get plural and singular I'm not going to put quotes around unhealth because that's a single word it doesn't need quotes only multiple words Digital apps okay double check to make sure there's no spelling that there's quotes on both sides of your search yes oh no well unfortunately because it's only three words are three letters I can't truncate it I used to be able to okay yeah drives me crazy okay make sure everything's good and then I'm just gonna search that in PubMed and that's our first building block 44,000 articles don't freak out when you see that it's okay because we have two more blocks to go so I showed you one way to get some mesh you look at the article see what mesh they're tagged with another way is to go into the home page this is the PubMed homepage scroll down and there's the mesh database so I'm gonna click on that and I'm back in mesh database land and again it says mash it says mash it says mesh so still it's you know completely confusing that you're in a different database release for me is maybe not for you all okay let's do the next one hypertension okay now what the database is doing is it's trying to show you the mesh then you might want it's going to show you all the ones out here that it thinks are relevant and you can see there are a lot of different kinds of hypertension that it's pointing me to and then it's gonna go from there I'm just going to click on this first one the general generic hypertension and I can look at this definition make sure it looks good to me there's no date here and I think that's because this is probably a pretty old mesh term it's been there long enough that it doesn't need to add a date you're not going to miss out on articles when you use it a couple other things to point out if we scroll down remember here's our entry terms but here underneath hypertension is all of the more specific mesh and here's the broader ones cardiovascular diseases broader right these are all of the more specific forms of hypertension and there are articles that are tagged with these mesh are automatically included whenever you search for hypertension if you really don't want these narrower terms white coat hypertension you don't want those you can go up and you can click on do not include mesh terms found below this term in the mesh hierarchy the technical term for what it's doing is called exploding and when you click this button you're telling it not to explode so if you don't want those narrower terms click do not include go up here add it to your search builder and you'll see the syntax now says no exp no explode ok if we don't want that if we really do just want to search it with everything which is what I usually do leave it alone make sure it says mesh ok and then we can add our other terms hyper 10 I'm going to stop it at the I get hypertensive hypertension any variations and I'm gonna do high blood pressure again I'm going to use that asterisk to get single or plural and notice and I put quotes okay again we could keep going we could add more keywords if we wanted to but I'm just putting in a few so you get an idea what it looks like double check spelling make sure that your truncation looks good nope I did misspell didn't I pressure there we go okay and then we're going to send it to PubMed okay again tons of articles a hypertension that is not a surprise but it shows us that our search is working we're going to do the last one so again this might feel a little I don't know cumbersome but the more you use this approach and the easier it gets I promise okay diet we could use diet if we wanted let's see if there's anything else there's all kinds of diets if we want to focus on a specific one but there is a term that I see yeah diet therapy let's do that one I think that's gonna be a little more appropriate for what we're looking at I will mention there are all of these subheadings over here do you see those so I can be more specific about my term I can say I really want diet therapy well that's kind of silly it's redundant but as a therapeutic use of diet therapy or I could look at the economic impact of diet therapy what else pharmacology if there were specific medications we want to look at you can check those and it will narrow your search a little bit I generally don't use them because I want to have control I don't want to miss out on articles because they weren't indexed in that way with that very specific subheading but they're here and I want to mention them just so you're not like what the heck are all of these but usually I leave it alone I just take that mesh and add it to my search builder and then again we can do diet yeah we're just thinking if there was a better way to truncate that oh gosh I don't know if I added field tags to my other two well that's okay we can edit that in a minute okay does this approach make sense to everybody as I said it's very tedious but it's gonna be super effective I promise you okay I'm seeing some yeses good you're still following me okay search in PubMed okay we have our three building blocks and now we're gonna stack them together we're gonna combine them and we do that in this advanced search so you go to advanced you scroll down and you'll see those blocks so I've been searching for awhile so there the numbers are not one two three but the what blocks that we care about are 16 17 and 18 and we're going to combine them and I do think I can go in here I thought I could edit it perhaps not in here okay well I wanted ad feel tags to everything but I was busy talking and I forgot I think it would be okay we'll survive so to combine these three blocks there's a couple things you could do I could just type in number 16 and number 17 and number 18 so 16 17 18 I'm saying and because I want the articles to talk about all three of my concepts or you can go in here and you can click on these three dots you can say add to query I can add the next one with an and and the next one with an and notice it's adding the parentheses its grouping it all for you so you don't have to think about that and then when we're ready we hit search I'm sorry I'm being really meticulous here I want to add my field tags there me if you're doing a more comprehensive search or a systematic review you probably won't do the TI field tag you're gonna miss out on articles but you can do TI a B and there's one more that people often use and that's TW which is a little bit broader than TI a B it includes author text words and it includes a couple other things I mostly use the t-i ad I find it to be just as effective but you can test it out so instead of TI a be it would be TW those are your two options when you're doing a literature review okay and then we go to search and this is where you cross your fingers because you're hoping there's articles out there with our three building blocks 41 articles okay good and we can scroll through and we can look at them so that is the systematic approach the more sophisticated way to do a search and that is in the advanced search and after you run each of them you combine them and you do your search now a couple other things to help you I know I'm running out of time so let me be quick about this if I go into an article there are our similar articles now so you can go in there and look at those and see if any of those are helpful for you and they also have included the cited by so who has cited your article and I think who your article is citing you can see both of those now and the new pub pub net so that's pretty exciting and that's a great way to find more articles the other thing to point out if you want to access this article you've done all the searching you're ready to access it look for these buttons here this find it at JH is the library's button if you click that it's going to go through all the journals we subscribe to these are all the ways that you could get your hands on that article if this doesn't show up you might see a link that says order through interlibrary loan so if the article is not available online you can order it through interlibrary loan it usually takes about a week or two for it to come and it will come in your email so you can get the article there's really very few situations where you wouldn't be able to get an article the other nice thing that pubmed's added is the site so it will show you how to cite it it's doing it in AMA but you can change your style what else you can save it you can email it you can send it those are all new so those are the things you can do if you like the search a whole lot and you want to save it or create an alert perhaps you want to know if there's any new articles that come out on it you're gonna create an alert and it's gonna ask you to log in to your my NCBI account so let me point out where that lives right here where it says login this is an account that you'll want to set up I would say do it today while it's fresh in your mind you're gonna create that account you can do it through Hopkins there's a couple ways to do it yeah you can do it through your school and that way you would just use your jet ID to login I have a separate account and I do that because god forbid if I'm ever not at Hopkins I want to still be able to access everything and so let me make this a little bit smaller just log into my account okay so let's get back to PubMed I'm now logged in you can see my name and what I want to show you is how you can create those alerts and I know that somebody had asked me ahead of time how do I create an alert for journals so if we were being more specific I did this for the person who emailed me he had mentioned a couple journals so you can in here let's say that you want the journal Nature you want to get alerts on the journal Nature you're going to pull down that arrow we're going to type in nature okay we can add it or we could add another journal let's say we also want so we're gonna say or nature or cell either one is good we could even do New England Journal medicine okay okay so we want these three journals just running it so we can see these are articles published in those journals add my topic so the person who emailed me was interested in neuroscience we can do the fans that I just talked about like the field tags I did truncate neuron to get neuron or neurons we're gonna add that and then we're gonna combine those with and okay so I've now said my topic in these journals search it okay a lot of results but what we're trying to do is set up an alert we want the new stuff that comes out after these results so I'm going to go to create an alert and again you have to be logged into your account to do this I'm gonna create an alert name it something that makes sense to you so you can say like my topic alert I don't know name it something better than that it will keep track of your search terms and then you're gonna say yes I want an email update make sure it's the right email you can have it weekly I usually do it weekly like on Fridays I want to see it okay you can tell it if you want summary or abstract let's do the abstract and then how many you want to see so if you want to see all the new ones you know set it to 200 and then save it and it will automatically weekly on Sunday send me any new articles the first batch might be everything it might be gigantic but then after that each week it will be the newest things so you can do that to do an alert or if you just really like the search that you were doing so if we want to go back to our oh I guess when I logged in I lost everything oh no anyway if you just wanted to do a search and save it let's get to this gigantic search here you can save your citations or you can create an alert and just tell them not to email it you don't want it to email it you just want to save it and go through everything and then you can retrieve it at any point by going into your account so you can see these are all the saved searches I have I can get into them at any point I can rerun them I can look into them I can change it to an email alert and then the other thing I've done with my citations is I set up collections so if I run the search and I like my results I can choose some of these and I can email I can send to a collection you're going to name the collection sorry create in your collection your odds name it and then the nice thing is when you create that collection you can share it with other people so if I make it public I'll get a link and I can send that to other people so a lot of times when people email me and ask for help I'll run a search for them I'll get them that link and I'll send them that link so that way they can look at those articles in the collection that I have found so those are the things I want to point out that's creating an alert or saving your search and the collection last thing to point out is if you are using a citation manager and we do have classes on how to use refworks and endnote so if you'd like to get up to speed on that they'll show you this again but when you have your citations and you want to send them to reference you click on citation manager you're going to create a file and then it will save it down on your computer and you can upload it into refworks or upload it into EndNote so pretty easy I think that's everything I wanted to show you trying to think if there's anything oh there is a user guide and it's pretty handy in fact there is in there you can learn more about mesh but there are all the field tags so I went into that user guide and I looked into appendices here's a list of all the field tags that you can be using this author one if you know a specific author and you want to see everything they've published is pretty helpful so bracket a new closed bracket we're using the TI a B and ti and t-dub those are all there but I just wanted you to know there's a whole bunch more field tags that are possible and then the last thing I want to point out is we have a YouTube channel unfortunately it's not linked to our website you have to Google YouTube Welch medical library but in it we have our classes that we're teaching but we have a whole series of PubMed videos that you can watch and they cover a lot of what I cover today but they go way more into depth it's a whole series of PubMed videos about an hour to watch and by the end of it you should be given some kind of pubmed degree or award or something because you will be a pro if you make it through these and you're able to use the strategies that they talked about okay so that's everything I wanted to cover does anyone have any questions for me you oh that's a good question if I don't use TI a B what is it doing if I don't use CI a B it's you doing something called all fields it is searching for that term everywhere it appears in the title the author's the journal the abstract the author supplied keywords and it goes on from there and reasons it can be frustrating is that it might find an author who is named cancer jl cancer that's coming up it may be the journal indian j cancer even if that's not what you're trying to get at so again when you just search the term you are being very very broad so yeah is there a good place to review boolean search terms yes if you go back to that YouTube channel the video that you want to watch is called PubMed basics and that will go through everything you ever want to know about boolean search terms but really the two terms that are valuable to know about where am I there we go basics of searching that's the video for you but really the two boolean terms that you're gonna want to use our and in or and we use them both today the end is if you want those part of those terms to be in your article so if we do cats and dogs both those words have to be in the article to show up or is saying this term or that term so cats for dogs you're gonna get a bigger set of articles some will talk about cats some will talk about dogs any other questions stop sharing okay well thank you all for coming to this session
