PubMed Redesigned!!

New changes are in effect at PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's search interface for MEDLINE. Most of the features you are familiar with are still available, they just may be in a new place.

One notable change is that the tabs for Details, History, and Limits are no longer on your results page.

• To see how your search terms were mapped, look for the Details box on the righthand side of your results list. You may need to scroll down a bit as it is below other features such as "Also Try," "Titles With Your Search Terms," and "Find Related Data." Details is also accessible on the Advanced Search screen.
• To combine search sets (formerly accomplished on the History tab), click on Advanced Search. If you do not see your full list of searches, click on "More History" to see your activity.
• To limit your search results to a specific age group, language, publication type, etc., click on Advanced Search. Options from the Limits tab are now included on the Advanced Search screen.

Other changes include:

• Filters, such as the default filters for Review Articles, Systematic Reviews and dukemlib (articles available in print or electronically through the Duke Medical Library) are now located on the righthand side of the results screen. Customized MyNCBI filters are also located here when you are signed into your MyNCBI account.
  
• Suggested terms appear as you are typing terms into the search box. Note: these are not MeSH terms and thus should be used with caution. To find MeSH terms for your topic, change the database selection option from PubMed to MeSH on the drop-down menu on the results screen or click on the MeSH database link on the bottom of the Advanced Search page.
  
• The Single Citation Matcher is now linked from the main PubMed home screen. Additionally, the library's links to the Single Citation Matcher remain functional.

For help using the redesigned PubMed, please IM, email, or call us at 660-1100 and ask to speak to a librarian, or read more about the changes to PubMed online.

Go Mobile!

If you have a Blackberry, iPod Touch, iPhone, or wireless PDA, you can now access a mobile version of the Library's Website. Search PubMed, use a medical calculator, read an article, or look up a quick clinical question in Dynamed. It will all be at your fingertips!

Bookmark us! http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/m

Create your own filter in PubMed

Ever wanted to filter your results to those that contain a certain term, are written by a specific author, or maybe appear in a specific journal or group of journals? Well... now you can!

A new feature in My NCBI (the place in PubMed where you can save searches, create collections of citations, etc.) allows you to customize your filters for any of the Entrez databases. To create your own filter, simply log in to your My NCBI account (or create one... it only takes a moment) and click on the My NCBI link and then "Search Filters." On the PubMed filters screen, click on the "Custom Filters" tab and follow the link to "create a new one." You'll be asked to enter your own search strategy for your filter. This can be one term or multiple terms and should NOT include History search statement numbers.

For a filter to be effective, the search strategy should include field tags. For example, a filter for articles in BMJ, JAMA and NEJM would have the search strategy: "BMJ (Clinical research ed.)"[Jour] OR "JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association"[Jour] OR "The New England journal of medicine"[Jour]. The best way to get the field tags is to run your search in PubMed, then copy the strategy off the Details screen and then paste it back into the Custom Filters area mentioned above.

Once you've created your custom filter, you'll need to place a checkmark next to it to add it to your list. Note that you can only have a total of 5 filters, whether they are standard or custom does not matter.

Full instructions appear online. If you need assistance creating your search strategy for your filter, please call, email or IM the reference librarians.

Happy filtering!

Athletic tape, auriculotherapy, autovaccines...

What do athletic tape, droughts and nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy have in common? They are all new MeSH terms for 2009!

While you know that medicine, clinical care and research are constantly evolving, you may not be aware that those Medical Subject Headings (or MeSH terms) that describe articles in the MEDLINE database also undergo changes and revisions every year. The National Library of Medicine, the agency that maintains MEDLINE and PubMed, analyzes MeSH every year to determine if new terms are needed and if old terms should be edited or retired.

While this reload of MeSH takes place, no new indexed citations are added to the MEDLINE database. For most people, this will have a limited impact: if you are a PubMed user, just be sure that you search using textwords in addition to MeSH terms (this is the default method when using the main search box); for Ovid users looking for the most current citations, be sure to search the in-process file (accessible from the change database link within Ovid) in addition to the MEDLINE file. Generally this process lasts just a few weeks in December.

If you have saved searches, you may want to check the new 2009 MeSH term list to determine if your strategy is still appropriate.

If you have any questions or would like assistance in evaluating a saved search, contact a reference librarian at 660-1100, mclref@mc.duke.edu, or via IM.

PubMed Update

National Library of Medicine is working on a PubMed redesign and in the process new features are being tested. These tests may cause you some issues while searching PubMed, read on for a simple solution!

The following features, based on the search query, may be encountered in PubMed in the upcoming weeks:

• Also Try - Searches done by other users on the same topic for you to try.
• More PubMed Articles - Other articles that, based on your search terms, may be of interest.
• Recent Activity - A display of your recent PubMed searches and AbstractPlus views, PubMed Central® searches and Full Text views, Gene database searches and Full Report views.

These resources are being introduced on an experimental basis. They may be made available to a small percentage of users so as to gauge their effectiveness, and may even be presented in different ways in order to see if one format is better than another. Based on what NLM learns they will decide how soon to enable a feature for all users, whether to try a different format, or even to go back to the drawing board.

As a result of these tests, you may have intermittent issues with PubMed losing cookies for your search session. You'll know this happened when you don't see the dukemlib tab above your search results or the DUMCL Online or Stacks buttons on the abstract view. To get your cookies back, simply open a new tab/window or go to the Library's Website and click on MEDLINE to restart PubMed. Don't worry! Your search history will be available from the history tab for 8 hours.

PubMed: Saving Into Collections Now One Step

You can now save citations from a PubMed search directly into your MyNCBI Collections using the Send to dropdown menu. Simply place a checkmark next to the citation(s) you want to save and then select Collections from the "Send to" drop down menu. Most pop-up blockers will still block the Collections window before it opens up, but a handy link to open the window is provided in a pink message on the page. Just click on that and you can save the citations into a new collection or append (add) them to an existing collection. If you are not yet signed in to your MyNCBI account, you'll be prompted to do so first.

This used to be a two-step process involving first saving to Clipboard and then saving to Collections. Many thanks to the folks at NCBI for simplifying this process!

For more information on MyNCBI accounts or searching PubMed, contact a librarian at 660-1100 (phone) or dukemclref (IM), or see our PubMed help page.