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Further Discussion About the Transitioning from ELHILL to PubMed Article

Further Discussion About the Transitioning from ELHILL to PubMed Article. NLM Technical Bulletin. 1998 Jan–Feb;(300):e1.

January 1998 [posted]

Several readers of the November-December 1997 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin have commented on the search example shown in Figure 5 that contained a very long and detailed search strategy. Many searchers are confronted with translating complicated Automatic SDI searches into a PubMed format. The strategy shown was intentionally complex to illustrate that PubMed can be used to create search strategies as detailed as the one shown in that figure as well as less complex searches such as the one shown in Figures 1 and 2 of that same article. A Gold Standard Search formulated for PubMed is in this issue offering another opportunity to create a search strategy using PubMed's newest search features. Try your hand at constructing a PubMed strategy before you look at the winning submission and the Gold Standard strategy.

Other comments questioned the article's suggestion to use a word processor to enter the search query and then using the "cut" and "paste" functions of the word processor to move the strategy over into the PubMed search box. The word processing approach was suggested as one alternative to consider when typing in a complex search strategy, so that any re-typing to correct keyboarding errors would be simplified. The new Details button and subsequent Details box now allow another easy way to edit your searches within PubMed as illustrated in the Gold Standard Search in this issue.

NLM staff is striving to make PubMed support the needs of all MEDLINE users. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome. Please send them to: custserv@nlm.nih.gov.