Making PubMed Easier

Our customized version of PubMed has new features! When you connect to PubMed through our Website or through http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/pubmed, you will now see new tabs for filtering your search results and highlighting of search terms.

Tabs

• Review: Clicking on this tab filters your results to those citations that are reviews of the literature. Reviews can be comprehensive or cover a very narrow range of the literature. This is a good filter to use when looking for background information on a topic.


• Systematic Review: Clicking on this tab filters your results to those citations that are in the systematic review subset of MEDLINE. This subset is based on a search strategy that looks for systematic reviews and can sometimes include meta-analyses and reviews of the literature that are not systematic. This is a good filter to use when you are looking for the best evidence on your topic, but be sure to determine whether articles found with this filter are truly systematic reviews.


• dukemlib: Clicking on this tab filters your results to those articles that are available at the Medical Center Library, either online or in the stacks. Look for the DUMCL Online and DUMCL stacks buttons to determine what format is available for each citation.

Highlighting

• Search terms are highlighted, as are any MeSH headings to which your terms are automatically mapped.
• Highlighting does not appear when you combine sets using set numbers, e.g., #4 AND #11.

For more information on PubMed features and search techniques, see our PubMed help information at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/#pubmed or call the Library's service desk at (919) 660-1100.