Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching

[This first edition was extensively revised and updated in a second edition (2006): ISBN 0967344514 ... the second edition is available on Amazon.]
 This concise and clearly written book will make your MEDLINE searches more productive. Any health professional will benefit from reading this book, which explains the basics of formulating searches, shows how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use, illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), provides guidance on framing questions, and backs everything up with practical examples. Includes a glossary of all MeSH used in the book and two appendices.

MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching

Brian S. Katcher

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Ashbury Press

This concise and clearly written book will make your PubMed searches more productive. MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's on-line bibliographic database, is the premiere index to the world's biomedical literature. It is the primary component of PubMed. MEDLINE is exquisitely organized: each journal article is manually indexed under an average of a dozen Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), one or more publication types, and more. An understanding of this organization is essential to effective searching. Any health professional, health sciences student, or researcher will benefit from reading this book. It explains the basics of formulating searches, shows how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use, illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), provides guidance for framing questions, and backs everything up with practical examples.

Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching in PubMed and Other Interfaces, Second Edition

Brian Katcher

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

[This first edition was extensively revised and updated in a second edition (2006): ISBN 0967344514 ... the second edition is available on Amazon.]This concise and clearly written book will make your MEDLINE searches more productive. Any health professional will benefit from reading this book, which explains the basics of formulating searches, shows how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use, illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), provides guidance on framing questions, and backs everything up with practical examples. Includes a glossary of all MeSH used in the book and two appendices.

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MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching

Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching in PubMed and Other Interfaces, Second Edition

Medline: A Guide to Effective Searching