Hardin News

Effective July 1, 2006, the Hardin Library will offer Medline exclusively through PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s free search service that includes over 16 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Although we will continue to offer the Ovid search interface for several specialized databases, the Ovid version of Medline will be discontinued after June 30. Previously we subscribed to Medline through Ovid because we considered its searching interface to be superior. However, within recent years the searching capabilities of PubMed have improved significantly, and are now at the point that they make Ovid Medline an unnecessary duplication. The most important factor in this decision is one of cost and our commitment to be responsible stewards of the limited resources in our collections budget, which is struggling with inflation and the rapid growth and demand for new electronic resources. By making this move, we can be more flexible in acquiring resources that support the educational, research, and patient care missions of the health campus.

Because many Hardin Library users have already begun using PubMed as their Medline entry point we expect this transition to go smoothly. For those users who would like help in making the transition to PubMed, an introductory course is available and will be offered six times during spring and early summer. Please register for one of these courses. Hardin librarians are also happy to come to your department or class for Hardin House Calls - tailored research consultations and instructional sessions. Online PubMed training is also available from the National Library of Medicine.

My NCBI Collections: Save PubMed Search Results
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf06/jf06_collections.html
Save search results indefinitely within PubMed using the new NCBI feature Collections.

PubMed Limits Page Enhanced
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma06/ma06_limits.html
These enhancements include the ability to:

Limit your results by author or journal
Limit your results to full text, free full text, and abstracts
Choose one or more selections under categories (for example, Languages)
and much more…

New! Save searches and receive automatic e-mail updates of new PubMed search results with MyNCBI. To use My NCBI:

Go to PubMed
Perform a search as usual
Select Save Search
Enter your My NCBI User Name & Password*, if you have one, OR click on register for an account

It’s fast and simple!

With My NCBI you can also choose filters that group search results. These filters include: Clinical Trials, English, Humans, Items with Abstracts, Published in the last 5 years, and Review.

Visit My NCBI help page for more information about this new service.

* if you had a Cubby account your User Name & Password may work with My NCBI

If you use PubMed then it is to your advantage to link to PubMed from Hardin’s site or to use this special web address: http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/nlm/pubmed.

Why? By using the University Libraries’ PubMed web address you will have access to InfoLink. InfoLink will take you to the full-text article, if the University Libraries subscribes, and link you directly to the InfoHawk Library Catalog record when a print copy is available.

Many PubMed records already include a publisher icon which links to the article’s full-text if the library subscribes. However, the library has access to additional full-text journals through different vendors than what these PubMed icons indicate.

Some of the databases that currently do not have publisher icons as part of the PubMed record include MD Consult, EBSCOhost, and Health Reference Center. These databases include hundreds of full-text journals not available elsewhere. If you are not using PubMed with InfoLink you may be wasting valuable time tracking down these journals when a simple click on the InfoLink button would tell you everything you need to know.