Title: MEDLINE via OVID

Subject(s) Covered: *Core Resources, Clinical Laboratory Science, Communication Disorders, Evidence Based Healthcare, Health Services and Information Management, Medicine, Nursing, Nutrition/Diet, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistants, Psychiatry/Psychology, Substance abuse,

Description: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. NOTE: There are several versions of Ovid's Medline to choose from. These different versions vary by date. Many find it useful to select the first of second version and then limit dates for their searches.

Access Information:

URL: MEDLINE via OVID


Help Materials:
Help Sheet

Tutorial(s):
Introduction (duration - 1:15)
Using Subject Headings (MeSH) (duration - 4:43)
Using Explode and Focus, Subject Trees and Subheadings (duration - (3:21)
Combining Search Terms and Limiting (duration - 3:01)
Reviewing Search Results and Finding Full Articles (duration - 5:15)