PubMed Tutorial - Flash™ Animation Descriptions

010_030 - Moving Around: The Flash animation contains a screen shot of the PubMed Tutorial and points out the tools for navigating through the Tutorial. Descriptions of these navigation tools are included in the text of 010_030.html.

020_020 - An Introduction to PubMed's Home Page: The Flash animation contains a screen shot of the PubMed home page and points out the various parts of the page such as the query box, features bar, and side bar. Detailed descriptions of the parts of the page are included in the text of 020_020.html.

020_030 - The Sidebar: The Flash animation contains a screen shot of the PubMed Home Page sidebar and points out the items on the sidebar. Descriptions of these items are included in the text of 020_030.html.

020_040 - The Sidebar (continued): The Flash animation contains a screen shot of the PubMed sidebar and continues to point out the items on the sidebar. Descriptions of these items are included in the text of 020_040.html.

020_070 - Automatic Term Mapping (continued): The Flash animation starts with the results page for the sample search, cardiac surgery after renal transplant. The [Show Me] steps through clicking on the details tab to see that the search has been mapped to ("thoracic surgery"[MeSH Terms] OR ("thoracic"[All Fields] AND "surgery"[All Fields]) OR "thoracic surgery"[All Fields] OR ("cardiac"[All Fields] AND "surgery"[All Fields]) OR "cardiac surgery"[All Fields]) AND after[All Fields] AND ("kidney transplantation"[MeSH Terms] OR ("kidney"[All Fields] AND "transplantation"[All Fields]) OR "kidney transplantation"[All Fields] OR ("renal"[All Fields] AND "transplant"[All Fields]) OR "renal transplant"[All Fields]). The explanation for this translation is included in the text of 020_070.html.

020_080 - Automatic Term Mapping (continued): The Flash animation contains two [Show Me] demonstrations. The first [Show Me] steps through using the details button to see that the search for the journal of cell biology is translated as "J Cell Biol"[Journal Name]. The second [Show Me] uses the details button to show that the unqualified search for cell translates as ("cells"[MeSH Terms] OR cell[Text Word]) not the journal Cell. The explanation for these translations are included in the text of 020_080.html.

020_090 - Automatic Term Mapping (continued): The Flash animation contains two [Show Me] demonstrations on full author searching. The first [Show Me] demonstrates a full name search in natural order (julia s wong). The second [Show Me] demonstrates using a comma to differentiate a last name, when the first and last name are ambiguous (james, ryan). Return to 020_090.html.

020_100 - Automatic Term Mapping (continued): The Flash animation contains three [Show Me] demonstrations on author searching. The first [Show Me] demonstrates a search for last name plus first initial (wheeler d). The second [Show Me] demonstrates turning off the automatic truncation, using double quotes and the [au] tag ("wheeler d" [au]). The third [Show Me] demonstrates using the [au] tag to search for a last name only. Return to 020_100.html

020_110 - Automatic Term Mapping (continued): The Flash animation shows that the unqualified search for pressure point translates as (("pressure"[MeSH Terms] OR pressure[Text Word]) AND point[All Fields]) by using the details button on the results page. The explanation for this translation is included in the text of 020_110.html.

020_130 - Phrase Searching: The Flash animation demonstrates how the use of double quotes in the search for "pressure point" changes the translation to "pressure point" [All Fields]. The explanation for this translation is included in the text of 020_130.html.

020_150 - Truncation: The Flash animation contains three [Show Me] demonstrations. The first shows how the search for mimick* is translated as mimic[All Fields] OR mimic/antagonist[All Fields] OR mimic/block[All Fields] OR mimic/enhance[All Fields] OR mimic/represent[All Fields] OR mimic'[All Fields]... The second [Show Me] demonstrates the limit of 600 variations when using truncation through the example tox*. This search returns the warning "Wildcard search for 'tox*' used only the first 600 variations. Lengthen the root word to search for all endings." The third [Show Me] points out that the use of truncation turns off automatic term mapping so the search for heart attack* translates as (heart attack[All Fields] OR heart attacks[All Fields]) and does not map to the MeSH term Myocardial Infarction. The details about truncation are on 020_150.html.

020_155 - Citation Sensor: The Flash animation demonstrates PubMed's Citation Sensor. A search for choi blood 2008 is run and the matches are highlighted in yellow at the top.

020_160 - Spell Check Feature: The Flash animation demonstrates a search with a typographical error (hemorrrhage), and PubMed's Spell Check feature suggesting another term (hemorrhage). Details about the Spell Check feature are included in the text of 020_160.html.

020_230 - Boolean Logic (continued): The Flash animation demonstrates the use of Boolean operators and nesting through the search for common cold AND (vitamin c OR zinc). The details about using Boolean logic are on 020_230.html.

020_240 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - What is the truncation symbol in PubMed? Answer choices - a. question mark (?) b. number sign (#) c. colon (:) d. asterisk (*) The correct answer is d. asterisk. Return to 020_240.html.

020_250 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - The search, smith dg journal of trauma will search for: Answer choices - a. Each word in All Fields. b. Each phrase in All Fields. c. The author name and the name of the journal. d. The author name and trauma as a MeSH term. The correct Answer is c. The author name and the name of the journal. Return to 020_250.html.

020_260 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - If PubMed cannot find a match for the term lethal dose in the MeSH or Journal Translation Tables, it will: Answer Choices - a. Search the term in all fields: lethal dose[All Fields] b. Search each word of the term in all fields and combine the results: lethal[All Fields] AND dose[All Fields] c. Search for a synonym of the term d. Not search the term. The correct answer is b. Search each word of the term in all fields and combine the results: lethal[All Fields] AND dose[All Fields]. Return to 020_260.html.

020_270 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - Which of the following strategies will retrieve citations on the topic of allergies to eggs or peanuts? Answer Choices - a. allergies NOT peanuts AND eggs b. (peanuts or eggs) and allergies c. allergies AND peanuts OR eggs d. allergies AND (peanuts OR eggs). The correct answer is d. allergies AND (peanuts OR eggs). Return to 020_270.html.

030_020 - Searching Results Screen: The Flash animation contains six [Show Me] demonstrations that point out the default Summary display format for citations; the icons indicating the presence of an abstract and availability of free full text; the “All” tab; the “Review” tab; the tool symbol linking to My NCBI to add/modify filter selections; and the default for displaying citations in batches of 20. Return to 030_020.html.

030_030 - Display Formats: The Flash animation contains several [Show Me] steps that highlight parts of the default Summary display format. Details about the Summary display format are included on 030_030.html.

030_040 - Display Formats (continued): The Flash animation contains several [Show Me] steps that continue to highlight parts of the default Summary display format. More details about the Summary display format are included on 030_040.html.

030_050 - Display Formats (continued): The Flash animation contains several [Show Me] steps that highlight parts of the Brief display format including the first author's name, the first 30 characters of the article title, identification number (PMID), and links to Related articles, LinkOut, and other Entrez databases. Return to 030_050.html.

030_060 - Display Formats (continued): The Flash animation contains several [Show Me] steps that highlight parts of the AbstractPlus display format. Details about the AbstractPlus display format are included on 030_060.html.

030_070 - Display Formats (continued): The Flash animation contains several [Show Me] steps that highlight parts of the Abstract display format. Details about the Abstract display format are included on 030_070.html.

030_080 - Display Formats (continued): The Flash animation contains several [Show Me] steps that highlight parts of the Citation display format. Details about the Citation display are included on 030_080.html.

030_110 - Display Formats (continued): The Flash animation contains two demonstrations showing how to change the display format of your search results. The demonstrations step through using the checkboxes to the left of each record to select relevant citations and using the display pull-down menu to change the display. The first demonstration selects the AbstractPlus format and the second demonstration selects the MEDLINE format. Details about the steps are outlined on 030_110.html.

030_120 - Show Pull-Down Menu: The Flash animation steps through using the Show pull-down menu to change the number of citations shown on the results page. Details about using the Show pull-down menu are available on 030_120.html.

030_130 - Page Selection and Retrieval Summary: The Flash animation steps through the example that shows typing in the Page box and clicking the Page button to navigate to page 12 of the search results. The animation continues by clicking on the Next button to reach page 13. Return to 030_130.html for more details about navigating through the pages of search results.

030_140 - Sorting Results: The Flash animation steps through using the Sort pull-down menu to change method used to sort search results. Details about using the Sort pull-down menu are available on 030_140.html.

030_150 - Send to Clipboard: The Flash animation steps through sending citations to the Clipboard by selecting citations using the checkboxes, and selecting Clipboard from the Send to menu. The animation also shows the asterisk that appears on the Clipboard tab when citations are in the Clipboard. Details about sending citations to the Clipboard are outlined on 030_150.html.

030_160 - Send to File: The Flash animation steps through the process of saving selected citations to a file. First, select the relevant citations using the checkboxes and select the display format using the display pull-down menu. Then select the file from the Send to pull-down menu to initiate the file download. You may want to change the file name on the Save As window of your browser to something more meaningful. Use the default file extension of .txt or another desired file extension. Return to 030_160.html for more about saving citations.

030_170 - Send to File (continued): The Flash animation steps through the process of saving all results to a file. Select the display format using the display pull-down menu, select File from the Send to pull-down menu to initiate the file download. You may want to change the file name on the Save As window of your browser to something more meaningful. Use the default file extension of .txt or another desired file extension. Return to 030_170.html for the details about this demonstration.

030_180 - Send to Order: The Flash animation shows the use of the Order Selection from the Send to pull-down menu to order the full copy of an article using Loansome Doc. Select the citations you want to order and select Order from the Send to pull-down menu to access Loansome Doc. Return to 030_180.html.

030_190 - Send to Text: The Flash animation steps through viewing results as plain text by first using the Display and Show pull-down menus to select the format and number of citations shown. Then select Text (default) from the Send to pull-down menu. Return to 030_190.html.

030_200 - Printing: The Flash animation demonstrates the example of printing selected citations in the Citation format. First select the citations using the checkboxes and change the display format to Citation using the Display pull-down menu. Then select Printer from the Send to pull-down menu to display the citations as plain text. Click the Print this page button to send the page to your printer. Then click the Close this window button to return to your results. Return to 030_200.html for more about printing results.

030_210 - Send to E-mail: The Flash animation shows the use of the E-mail selection from the Send to pull-down menu to send search results to an e-mail address. The Animation shows the Citation display format and three documents selected. Select E-mail from the Send to pull-down menu. From the options screen you may modify selections, add a message, enter the recipient's e-mail address, and click the Mail button. Return to 030_210.html for more about printing results.

030_220 - Send to RSS: The Flash animation shows the use of the RSS selection from the Send to pull-down menu to generate an RSS feed from a PubMed search. Select RSS from the Send to menu. From the options screen, select the maximum number of items to send per feed, and rename the feed, if desired. Click on Create, then either drag and drop the RSS button to your feed reader, or click on the RSS button and copy and paste the URL from the resulting window to your feed reader, following the instructions on your feed reader software. Return to 030_220.html

030_230 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - How would you print displayed results without also printing PubMed's sidebar and other buttons? Answer Choices - a. Click on the Details tab. b. Select Order from the Send to menu. c. Select Printer from the Send to menu. The correct answer is c. Select Printer from the Send to menu. Return to 030_230.html.

030_240 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - You have found references about hypertension and a nosebleed, and you now want to display all of the retrieved records on one page. How would you do that? Answer Choices - a. Maximize the window for your browser b. Click the Show pull-down menu and select a number higher than the final retrieval set. c. Limit your search so that retrieval is 20 or less. The correct answer is b. Click the Show pull-down menu and select a number higher than the final retrieval set. Return to 030_240.html.

030_250 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - You've completed a search on injuries from backpacks or backpacking. Now you wish to save and send the results of your search to a file. How would you do this? Answer Choices - a. Select File from the Send to Menu. b. Select Clipboard from the Send to menu. c. Select the Details tab to display the PubMed translation, then copy that to the Clipboard. The correct answer is a. Select File from the Send to Menu. Return to 030_250.html.

030_270 - Suggested Answer: The Flash animation steps through the suggested answer for the review exercise. The steps for the suggested answer are described in the text of 030_270.html.

040_020 - Limits: The Flash animation points out the Limits tab, and the Go and Clear All buttons on the Limits page. More information about these limits functions is available at 040_020.html.

040_030 - Limits (continued): Limit by Author and limit by Journal functions are demonstrated in the Flash animation. More information about these limits is described on 040_030.html.

040_040 - Limits (continued): Limiting to full text, free full text and citations with abstracts is shown in the Flash animation. Limiting by dates is demonstrated. The dates limits are more fully described in the text of 040_040.html.

040_050 - Limits (continued): The Flash animation points out how to limit to Humans or Other Animals, limit to Male or Female, or limit to Language. The scroll for each menu window is demonstrated. These limits are more fully described on 040_050.html.

040_060 - Limits (continued): The Flash animation shows the subsets menu on the Limits page. Details about using these subsets are described on 040_060.html.

040_070 - Limits (continued): Type of Article (Publication Type) limit and Age Group limit menus are shown in the Flash animation. More information about these limits is available on 040_070.html.

040_080 - Limits (continued): The Flash animation demonstrates how to limit searches to a specific search field using the Tag Terms dropdown menu on the Limits page. More information about limiting a search to a specific field is described on 040_080.html.

040_090 - Limits demonstration: The Flash animation steps through using the menus on the Limits page to limit a search on mumps. The Limits used include Practice Guideline from the Type of Article menu and Child: 6-12 years and Adolescent: 13-18 years from the Ages menu. Details about the steps are outlined on 040_090.html.

040_110 - History (continued): The Flash animation steps through a demonstration showing how to use History to combine searches using search numbers. The example shows combining the search melanoma and the search sunscreen using their search numbers, #1 AND #2. Details about the steps used are outlined in the text of 040_110.html.

040_120 - History (continued): The Flash animation steps through a demonstration showing how to apply Limits to searches in History. The example shows applying age limit, adolescent, and the date limit, published in the last 5 years, to the previous search of melanoma AND sunscreen. Details about the steps used are outlined in the text of 040_120.html.

040_130 - Preview / Index: The Flash animation steps through a demonstration on how to use the Preview feature. The searches used include "chickenpox vaccine" and "pregnancy chickenpox vaccine". Details about using the Preview feature can be found at 040_130.html.

040_140 - Preview / Index (continued): The Flash animation steps through a demonstration on using the Preview feature to preview the search term bulimia specifically in the Title Word field. The detailed outline of the steps is at 040_140.html.

040_150 - Preview / Index (continued): The Flash animation shows how to use the Index feature to search the index for a field. The example searches the MeSH Terms index for attention deficit. More information about using the Index feature is included on 040_150.html.

040_160 - Preview / Index (continued): The Flash animation continues the demonstration from m4011.html with showing how to add terms found using the Index to a search. The example searches the MeSH Terms index for attention deficit. More information about using the Index feature is included on 040_160.html.

040_170 - Preview / Index (continued): The Flash animation demonstrates how to add multiple terms found using the Index to a search. The example searches the MeSH Terms index for thalidomide and then selects the search terms thalidomide/poisoning and thalidomide/toxicity . More information about using the Index feature is included on 040_170.html.

040_180 - Clipboard: The Flash animation contains three [Show Me] demonstrations. The demonstrations highlight the Clipboard feature by showing how to send citations to the Clipboard by selecting the checkboxes for relevant citations and selecting Clipboard from the Send to Menu. Once the citations are on the Clipboard, the demonstration also shows how to save them to a file, remove them, and print them. The steps for these functions of the Clipboard are outlined in the text of 040_180.html.

040_190 - Ordering Documents from the Clipboard: The Flash animation demonstrates how to order documents that have been added to the Clipboard by selecting the citations and selecting Order from the Send to pull-down menu. Details of the steps for ordering are outlined on 040_190.html.

040_210 - Details: The five [Show Me] Flash animations highlight the information available on the Details display. The Details display for a search is available by clicking on the Details tab. Return to 040_210.html to see the list of information included on the Details page.

040_230 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - Which of the following Send to options would you use to collect citations from multiple searches for saving, printing, or ordering? Answer Choices - a. Send to Clipboard b. Send to File c. Send to Text. The correct answer is a. Send to Clipboard. Return to 040_230.html.

040_240 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question - Which feature allows you to easily limit your retrieval to a specific age group, gender, or language? Answer Choices - a. Clipboard b. Preview/Index c. Limits d. History e. All of the above. The correct answer is c. Limits. Return to 040_240.html.

040_250 - Review: A Flash interactive multiple choice question. Question – Which feature allows you to learn how your search query was translated including information about MeSH heading mappings, error messages, and stopwords? Answer Choices - a. Details b. Index c. History d. Preview The correct answer is a. Details. Return to 040_250.html.

050_020 - Registration: The Flash animation steps through the process of registering for My NCBI. The details of the registration process are outlined on 050_020.html.

050_030 - Sign In: The Flash animation demonstrates signing in to My NCBI with your User Name and Password. The second [Show Me] highlights the “Keep me signed in unless I sign out” check box found on the Sign in page. More information is found on 050_030.html.

050_050 - Saving Searches: The Flash animation demonstrates how to save a search strategy using My NCBI. See 050_050.html for the example and steps used in the demonstration.

050_060 - E-mail Update Results: The Flash animation displays the e-mail update results. Return to 050_060.html.

050_070 - Additional Functions from My Saved Searches page: The Flash animations highlight portions of the Saved Searches screen. Details are included in the text on 050_070.html.

050_080 - The Flash animations demonstrate Modifying a Saved Search Strategy; Deleting a Saved Search; and Using Search Statement Numbers in Saved Searches. Details are included in the text on 050_080.html.

050_090 - Manually Updating Searches: The Flash animation steps through the process of manually updating saved searches. Details are included in the text on 050_090.html.

050_100 - Collections: The Flash animation steps through the process creating and appending a collection in My NCBI. Details are included in the text on 050_100.html.

050_110 - Collections (continued): The Flash animation shows how to access previously created Collections from the My NCBI Collections page. Then how to merge, delete, sort, view and edit collections. Return to 050_110.html for demonstrations of these functions.

050_120 - Filters and The Tabs: The Flash animations point out the default filter tabs. Details are included in the text on 050_120.html.

050_130 - Adding Filters: The Flash animation steps through the process of adding filters. Return to 050_130.html for details about adding filters.

050_140 - Adding Filters (continued): The Flash animation steps through using the Browse feature to find additional options for PubMed filters. Return to 050_140.html for details about this demonstration.

050_150 - Adding LinkOut Filters: The Flash animation steps through adding your library's holdings as a filter. Return to 050_150.html for details about this demonstration.

050_160 - Using the Filter Tabs: The Flash animation steps through using the filter tabs from a PubMed display. Return to 050_160.html for details about this demonstration.

050_170 - User Preferences: The Flash animations shows how to access My NCBI preferences and the process of selecting highlighting of PubMed search words in your retrieval when you are signed into My NCBI. Return to 050_170.html for details about these demonstrations.

050_190 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 1: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 050_190.html for the details of the steps used.

050_200 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 2: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 050_200.html for the details of the steps used.

050_210 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 3: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 050_210.html for the details of the steps used.

060_030 - Related Articles (continued): The Flash animations demonstrate finding related articles for a selected citation and then limiting the set of related articles. Detailed explanations of the steps used can be found at 060_030.html.

060_040 - Links: The Flash animation points out how to use the Links pull-down menu to link to records in other Entrez databases. Return to 060_040.html for more about Links.

060_050 - LinkOut: The Flash animation includes four Show Me demonstrations. The first explains how to access LinkOut from the Links menu. The second shows how to reach a legend of icons used on the LinkOut display. The third demonstrates how to select a LinkOut participating library. The fourth demonstrates using the LinkOut subset value used to limit to a citation with Links to free full-text. Return to 060_050.html for more about LinkOut and details about these demonstrations.

060_060 - Free PMC Links: The Flash animation shows clicking the Links pull-down menu to select the Free in PMC link. The animation ends at the display of full text in PubMed Central. Return to 060_060.html for more about the Free in PMC links.

060_070 - NCBI Databases: The Flash animation shows how to use the links associated with a citation. The links used in the demonstration include publisher full text links available from the Abstract display, Related Articles, Protein, Nucleotide, and LinkOut. Details about the steps used are outlined at 060_070.html.

060_090 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 1: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 060_090.html for the details of the steps used.

060_100 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 2: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 060_100.html for the details of the steps used.

070_030 - MeSH Database (continued): The nine [Show Me] Flash animations point out accessing the MeSH database and searching for a term; suggestions offered; parts of the summary display; available links; and parts of the full displays in the MeSH database using the example term osteoarthritis. Descriptions of these displays are included in the text of 070_030.html.

070_040 - MeSH Database (continued): The Flash animation demonstrates the steps to use the MeSH database to select MeSH terms to retrieve articles that discuss the diagnosis of Bursitis in the knee joint where knee joint is the main focus of the article. Full details of the steps are included in the text of 070_040.html.

070_050 – MeSH Database (continued): The Flash animation demonstrates the steps to use the MeSH database to find articles discussing the surgical or drug treatment of osteosarcoma in children. Further requirements are that osteosarcoma should be the main point of the article and that only English language articles be retrieved. Full details of the steps are included in the text of 070_050.html.

070_060 - Journals Database: The Flash animations demonstrate clicking the link to view the Journals Database, and highlighting the link to the list of journal subject terms. Details are included in the text of 070_060.html.

070_070 - Journals Database (continued): The six [Show Me] Flash animations show accessing the Journals database; searching the journal, Annals of Internal Medicine; pointing out suggestions offered; parts of the summary display; available links; and accessing the full display. Descriptions of these displays are included in the text of 070_070.html.

070_080 - Single Citation Matcher: The Flash animation demonstrates how to use the single citation matcher to search for Gene Therapy, 1999, and the title words, mitochondrial gene therapy. More information about the Single Citation Matcher is outlined in the text of 070_080.html.

070_090 - First Author Searching via the Single Citation Matcher: The Flash animation demonstrates how to use the single citation matcher to search for T.K. Li as the first author. More information about this feature is detailed in the text of 070_090.html.

070_100 – Clinical Queries: The two [Show Me] Flash animations demonstrate how to access Clinical Queries and points out that 3 search filters are available from the Clinical Queries screen. Further information about the Clinical Study Category filter is outlined in the text of 070_100.html.

070_110 - Clinical Queries (continued): The Flash animation demonstrates the steps to use the clinical study category filter to search for food AND eczema with the therapy category and the “narrow, specific search” filter. The second demonstration uses the same search as above except with the “broad, sensitive search” filter to retrieve more results. Details for the steps are included in the text of 070_110.html.

070_120 - Clinical Queries (continued). Find Systematic Reviews: The Flash animation demonstrates the steps to use the systematic reviews filter to search for inhalation therapy pneumonia. Details for the steps are included in the text of 070_120.html.

070_130 – Clinical Queries (continued). Medical Genetics searches. The first [Show Me] Flash animation demonstrates accessing the Medical Genetics Searches portion of the Clinical Queries screen and points out the default filter setting to “All”. The next Flash animation highlights using the Medical Genetic categories of “Genetic Counseling” and “Genetic Testing" to find relevant citations about the topic of sickle cell anemia. Further details are included in the text of 070_130.html.

070_150 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 1: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 070_150.html for the details of the steps used.

070_160 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 2: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 070_160.html for the details of the steps used.

070_170 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 3: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 070_170.html for the details of the steps used.

080_030 - MeSH Headings [mh]: The Flash animation shows how the search thromboembolism[mh] actually searches as thromboembolism[MeSH Terms]. The actual search statement is viewed using the Details tab on the search results page. For more information about the [mh] tag see 080_030.html.

080_050 - Pharmacologic Action [PA]: The first [Show Me] Flash animation demonstrates searching for citations discussing aspirin as a platelet aggregation inhibitor. This is done using the [pa] search method. The second [Show Me] Flash animation illustrates using the MeSH database to display the substances known to have a particular pharmacologic action. More information about pharmacologic action is included in the text on 080_050.html.

080_080 - Author Searching [au]: The Flash animation shows how to search for authors using the [au] tag. Descriptions of the examples shown are included in the text of 080_080.html.

080_090 - Full Author Searching: The Flash animation demonstrates entering a full author name in natural order using the example, julia s wong. Further information about full author searching is detailed in the text in 080_090.html.

080_100 - Full Author Searching (continued): The Flash animation demonstrates automatic truncation of the forename using the example: herron bruce. Further information is included in the text on 080_100.html.

080_110 - Full Author Searching (continued): The Flash animation demonstrates that some full author names occur in the database in more than one way using the example: manuel castro cabezas Further information is included in the text on 080_110.html.

080_120 - Corporate Author [cn]: The Flash animation shows how to search for corporate authorship of an article using the [cn] tag. More information about corporate authors is outlined in the text of 080_120.html.

080_130 - Personal Name as Subject [ps]: The Flash animation shows the examples of using [ps] and [la] as outlined in the text of 080_130.html.

080_140 - Journal Title [ta] and Place of Publication [pl]: The Flash animation shows examples of using [ta] and [pl] as outlined in the text of 080_140.html.

080_160 - Publication Type [pt] and Secondary Source Identifier [si]: The Flash animation shows the examples of using [pt] and [si] as outlined in the text of 080_160.html.

080_180 - Unique Identifier Searching [uid]: The Flash animation demonstrates that the search for 95091318 97465762 returns the citations with those PubMed Unique Identifiers [PMID]. More information about PMID searching is outlined at 080_180.html.

080_190 - Affiliation [ad] and Grant Number [gr]: The Flash animation shows the examples of using [ad] and [gr] tag as outlined in the text of 080_190.html.

080_200 - Review: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answers for the exercises. Suggested answer 1 - cell[tw] AND phones[tw]. Suggested answer 2 - churchill w[ps]. Suggested answer 3 - video display terminals[mh] AND carpal tunnel syndrome[mh]. Suggested answer 4 - acupuncture[ti] AND 2000[dp]. Return to 080_200.html.

090_030 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 1: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 090_030.html for the details of the steps used.

090_050 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 2: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 090_050.html for the details of the steps used.

090_070 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 3: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 090_070.html for the details of the steps used.

090_090 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 4: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 090_090.html for the details of the steps used.

090_110 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 5, Part 1: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. The journal name, lancet is entered in the journal search box and journal name autocomplete is used; 1999/10 is entered in the Date search box; and 1229 is entered in the Page search box. Return to 090_110.html.

090_120 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 5, Part 2: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. See 090_120.html for the details of the steps used.

090_130 - Suggested Answer for Exercise 5, Part 3: The Flash animation demonstrates the suggested answer for the exercise. The author name, adelman am is entered in the Author name search box; and the “Only as first author” check box is selected. Return to 090_130.html.