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MEDLINE book
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MEDLINE Interfaces and Related
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Katcher, Brian S.
MEDLINE: a guide to effective searching in PubMed and other
interfaces. 2nd edition (2006)
$31.95 (U.S.), 148 pages, 6 x 9 inches, Ashbury Press,
San Francisco
ISBN13: 9780967344515
ISBN10: 0967344514
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This concise and clearly written book will make your PubMed searches
more productive.
Now available in a completely revised second edition, Brian Katcher's
MEDLINE: a guide to effective searching in PubMed and other interfaces
promotes the cultivation of an informed and thoughtful approach
to searching in PubMed/MEDLINE and other interfaces to MEDLINE.
MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's on-line bibliographic
database, is the premiere index to the world's biomedical literature.
It is the primary component of PubMed. MEDLINE is exquisitely
organized: each journal article is manually indexed under an average
of a dozen Medical Subject Headings (MeSH Terms), one or more
publication types, and more. An understanding of this organization
is essential to effective searching. Any health professional,
health sciences student, or researcher will benefit from reading
this book. It explains the basics of formulating searches, shows
how to put the main indexing elements in MEDLINE to best use,
illustrates the importance of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH),
provides guidance for framing questions, and backs everything
up with practical examples.
MEDLINE: a guide to effective searching in PubMed and other
interfaces is an essential resource for those concerned with
evidence-based medicine and those engaged in biomedical research.
Medical librarians and teachers of medical informatics will find
this book to be useful in promoting the careful use of PubMed/MEDLINE.
"....a well-written, quick read perfect for medical librarianship
students, physicians, and researchers or anyone interested in
improving their MEDLINE searching abilities." -- Journal
of the Medical Library Association
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