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Thinking of writing your own research paper but unsure where to begin? This one-hour course will help you develop a robust search strategy which can be transferred into other databases for maximum paper retrieval. Run by UHNM and Keele Librarians, this course will help you build the ‘Literature review’ section of your paper using Ovid Medline. By the end of this workshop, you should be able to: Develop and run your own research question Screen the title and abstract of relevant papers Know how to obtain the full text Save your search and journal articles Download your search results in a file (ready for uploading in screening or reference software) Set up an alert for new research recently added. Be able to amend your search for maximum transferability into other databases Certificates are provided upon completion.  Wednesday 12th November, 12:30 - 13.30 - To book a session, click here Thursday 4th December, 12:30 - 13.30 To book a session, click here If you have any question, ple...

A message from nhse regarding the impact of the US gov shutdown on pubmed and medline: -------------- If you have visited a US government funded website in the past few days, you may have noticed a warning like this: "Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted. The NIH Clinical Center (the research hospital of NIH) is open. For more details about its operating status, please visit cc.nih.gov . Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at opm.gov ." What does this mean for NHS users? If you subscribe to auto-alerts from PubMed or Medline (from either of our commercial suppliers, Ovid or EBSCO), you may notice that you don’t receive any new records for a couple of weeks. If the shut-down lasts for longer than anticipated, cons...

We have changed our subscription to the Ebsco Medline database from the "Complete" version to the "Full-Text" version. Note: You may now not be able to access the full-text of some ejournals you used before The Full-text version does not mean that all journals it contains are available as current full-text journals You can access all NHS subscribed resources from our healthcare Resources web page .

The error we experienced accessing volumes and issues from the journal pages in Medline with full-text has now been resolved. You should now be able to click the year on the journal page in order to drop-down the list of issues available. Screen-shot of journal page with volume/issue drop-down visible Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

We are aware that users have experienced problems accessing journal articles from Medline with FullText when trying to click on volumes / issues from the journal title page . For some reason when you click on the years of the journal you are not being given a drop-down list of the volumes / issues. Example of journal page in Medline with Fulltext; there is an error when trying to click the year link for the volumes and issues If you search for the article title within Medline with fulltext you should get through to the article full-text. To do this, click on the “New Search” link in the top left-hand corner, copy your article title into the search box and click “Search”. Your article should appear in the search results. (Remember to check that we have the holdings for the issue you need). We have reported the problem to our providers and hope to have it resolved soon. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Keele Libraries subscribe to the Medline database. It contains the details of thousands of articles including subject terms and abstracts as well as bibliographic details such as author, journal title and date of publication. You can search across thousands of medical-based journals for the subjects that you are interested in. There are lots of features to help you to focus your search, including: MeSH terms – medical subject headings Patient focus limits like patient age or gender Date limit feature to limit to the date range that you need Publication type selection – for example so that you can concentrate on reviews, controlled trials or case reports and so on Search history to allow you to view your previous searches Search combinations to combine your searches using AND or OR to increase the focus of your search or expand your search to include more elements You can also save your searches or email results to friends or fellow students. You can link to Medline v...

Over the festive period, Ovid who manage NHS access to the Medline database on Search 2.0, take the opportunity to update and re-build the database. This may cause some periodical disruption to access. Current slow operation and timing out issues have been reported to the appropriate people, and is currently under investigation. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause in the mean time. Edit 6th January: Although the major issues have now been resolved, some intermittent problems may occur throughout January and no new articles will be added to the database during this time. PubMed remains unaffected. Alternative access to the full database is available via the Keele Ebsco access , which can be accessed through computers in the Health Library IT Suite.