Fundamentals of Government Information by Cassandra J. Hartnett & Andrea L. Sevetson & Eric J. Forte

Author:Cassandra J. Hartnett & Andrea L. Sevetson & Eric J. Forte [Hartnett, Cassandra J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LAN025040 Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Collection Development
ISBN: 9780838914199
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2016-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 11.1. Facsimile of Page from “The First Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, 1840.” Source: National Library of Medicine, 1961.

PubMed is “the freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the US National Library of Medicine” (National Library of Medicine, 2015e), and is the recommended starting point for any health literature search, whether for government documents or other sources such as citations of articles published in peer-reviewed journals. It is one of the most comprehensive and valuable tools in existence for finding such literature (including the broader Internet). Its building blocks are MEDLINE, with its indexing for 5,400 journals from around the world (although note that PubMed does include indexing and abstracts in addition to that from MEDLINE), and MeSH (NLM’s controlled indexing vocabulary). Understanding these building blocks makes using PubMed searching far more effective.

QUESTION: How do I find older medical journal articles?

ANSWER: To identify articles published from:

• 1946—present, search PubMed®. Your retrieval will include both MEDLINE® and OLDMEDLINE records, as well as some other citations not indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®).

• Before 1946, there are a small number of citations included in PMC: PubMed Central, searchable via PubMed. Otherwise, there are no online sources from NLM except for IndexCat™. You need to use Index Medicus® and the other print sources that are described below. These sources can be found at many medical and large university libraries. Note: Index Medicus® ceased hard copy publication with the Dec. 2004 edition (Volume 45).

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