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When you need several articles fast, and you are not concerned with identifying every article on the topic, the following tools and techniques are just what the doctor ordered!<\/p>\n

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  1. Get your own PubMed MY NCBI<\/a> account and set up your own search filters.<\/strong> For instance, I frequently search for evidence-based studies.\u00a0 MY NCBI search filters include:\u00a0 clinical trials, meta-analysis, practice guidelines, and systematic reviews. Your filters could be set to any number of subject areas including:\u00a0 nursing, AIDS, cancer, or bioethics.\u00a0 If you are a pediatrician or geriatrician, you can set your search filters to quickly locate articles on children or the aged.\"Quick-Search_1\"<\/li>\n
  2. When you locate an article of particular interest in PubMed, don\u2019t forget to use the Related Articles<\/a> link.<\/strong> The Related Articles link is a quick way to find similar articles to your article of interest. This feature retrieves PubMed citations that are closely related to the article using word-weighted calculations and algorithms. The related articles will be displayed in ranked order from most to least relevant, with the \u201clinked from\u201d citation (your original article) displayed first.
    \n\"Quick-Search_2\"<\/li>\n
  3. Google Scholar<\/a> is a quick way to find that hidden article. <\/strong> Google has arrangements with scholarly publishers to query their servers and to take the words from their electronic articles and add them to the Google database.\u00a0 This gives you the opportunity to search the content of the entire article.\u00a0 Google Scholar displays the results using the number of times the article was cited in the Google database as a marker of its page rank or relevancy score.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Quick-Search_3\"<\/p>\n

    When you find that Google Scholar gem, use Google Scholar\u2019s Related articles<\/a> link to locate similar articles.<\/p>\n

    Google Scholar gets it content from many sources, so there can be more than one version of the same article in Google Scholar.\u00a0 To locate the PubMed abstract for an article, click on All # versions link.\u00a0 The PubMed record version will have PubMed\u2019s URL \u201cncbi.nlm.nih.gov.\u201d<\/p>\n

    For a more detailed comparison of Google Scholar vs. PubMed, see \u201cGoogle Scholar vs. PubMed for Health Sciences Literature Searching\u201d in this issue.<\/p>\n

    \"Quick-Search_4\"<\/p>\n

    Look for \u201cQuick Searching Tools & Techniques, Part 2,\u201d in the December issue of the HSLS Update.\u00a0 For help with these search tips and techniques, contact your Liaison Librarian<\/a> or Ask A Librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    ~ Charles Wessel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When you need several articles fast, and you are not concerned with identifying every article on the topic, the following tools and techniques are just what the doctor ordered! Get your own PubMed MY NCBI account and set up your own search filters. For instance, I frequently search for evidence-based studies.\u00a0 MY NCBI search filters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}