Pub MedUsing Limits module 4 2 MODULE 4

Pub. Med/Using Limits (module 4. 2)

MODULE 4. 2 Pub. Med/Using Limits Instructions - This part of the: §course is a Power. Point demonstration intended to introduce you to Pub. Med/Limits. §module is off-line and is intended as an information resource for reference use.

Table of Contents § § § § § Limits by author Limits by journal Limits by publication date Limits by language Limits by subset Limits by age Limits by publication type Limits by title/abstract Limits by affiliation

Logging on to HINARI 1 Before logging into Pub. Med we can Login to the HINARI website using the URL http: //www. who. int/hinari

HINARI Log-In 2 We will need to insert our HINARI User Name and Password in the Login box and click on the Login button.

Main HINARI webpage From the main HINARI webpage, we can access Pub. Med from the “Find articles” link in the body of the webpage. Click on Search for HINARI journal articles through Pub. Med (Medline).

Pub. Med homepage Welcome to the Pub. Med Homepage. Part 2 of the tutorial will look at using the Limits function to narrow down our search results by different parameters.

Pub. Med query box If we type in a search statement such as tuberculosis in the Search box, we will get a large number of records in our results.

Pub. Med search results The tuberculosis search will return almost 160000 hits. This is too many to view in any meaningful way. This includes almost 17000 HINARI citations and 13500 Free full text citations (07 2007).

Limit Link We can begin to narrow this down by looking at the Limits function.

Limits page 1 Here is the Limits page. Searches can be limited by restricting terms to fields or setting specific date or record tagging parameters.

Limits page 2

Limit by Author(s) This is an Author name search for Ribeiro.