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Literature Searches

This guide is designed to help you perform literature searches. If you still have questions about literature searches after reviewing this information, please contact me.

PubMed and Constructing Useful Searches

Learn the basics of constructing reliable and accurate searches in this video tutorial from PubMed, a database of Health Sciences citations maintained by the National Library of Medicine.

PubMed: Search Terms and MeSH Vocabulary

This PubMed video takes a closer look at identifying useful search terms and introduces MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), the hierarchy of controlled vocabulary used to index subjects in PubMed.