PubMed Search by Email - Help
This resource was compiled with the physician, medical student, scientist,
researcher in remote, low-resource areas and developing countries in mind.
The Web has many useful resources, but it takes time to find them. In most
developing countries, connectivity is slow, web access is limited and users
pay for time spent on-line, which is frequently expensive. We hope this tool
will assist scientists and clinicians doing research in the underserved and
health-challenged communities of the world.
Table of Contents
A PubMed query will search:
- MEDLINE:
the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic
database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine,
the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic
citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in
the United States and 70 other countries. The file contains over 11 million citations
dating back to the mid-1960's. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from
English-language sources or have English abstracts.
- Out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics)
from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals,
for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE.
- Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for
MEDLINE indexing.
- Some additional life science journals that submit full text to
PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
The program will search, retrieve and deliver citations
(author, title, source information, PMID (PubMed Unique Identifier)
and abstracts, if available. Results will be sent back by email in text
form, or as PDF formatted attachments. Full-text articles may be retrieved
later for available journals.
Search Procedure:
- Send an email message to pm2mail@krot.org with Subject PM
In the body of the message, type:
query "search term"
For example, to search for articles about malaria, type
query malaria
Thus, you produce an email like, for example:
| SAMPLE EMAIL
[click here]
|
To: pm2mail@krot.org
Subject: PM
Query malaria
|
You may add qualifiers, using AND, OR, NOT
(always in uppercase) and another "search term"
Example:
query malaria AND anemia
or
query malaria AND sickle cell
You may also add other filters, such as:
Clinical Queries filter (category: therapy, diagnosis, etiology, prognosis
and emphasis: sensitivity, specificity
Example:
query malaria AND diagnosis AND specificity
Systematic Reviews filter (systematic reviews, meta-analyses,
reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine,
consensus development conferences, and guidelines.)
Example:
query hypertension AND systematic reviews
There are options on the type of search done and results returned:
| max: n |
limits the number of abstracts returned, default is 50 items |
| pdf |
results are returned in PDF format, requires the free Adobe PDF Reader |
| cc: x,y,z,... |
sends copies to other recipients. Multiple recipients should be separated
by commas. This may be useful to researchers, clinicians and scientists who want
to send copies of queries to their collaborators. It will also be useful if you
want copies of queries to a different email address than you currently use. |
Sample query:
| SAMPLE EMAIL
|
From: Paul Font <font@abc.def.com>
Date: Fri Aug 9, 2002 10:43:18 AM US/Eastern
To: pm2mail@krot.org
Subject: PM
query myocardial infarction AND diagnosis
randomized controlled trial
max: 10
pdf
cc: Rob May may@june.com
|
Get a fulltext article by email
The abstracts will indicate if full-text articles are available
....
abstarct text
...
PMID: xyz [FULLTEXT AVAILABLE!!].
To get the full-text articles, click on the link provided. Or send an email
to pm2mail@krot.org with Subject PM.
In the body of the message type:
get xyz
Where xyz is the PubMed identifier of the article you want to retrieve.
Sample full-text retrieval request:
| SAMPLE EMAIL
[click here]
|
From: Kurt Brauchli <brauchlik@yahoo.com>
To: pm2mail@krot.org
Subject: PM
get 11584567
pdf
|
You may also use options such as:
pdf retrieve fulltext article as pdf file, ready for printing. Default is html which comes without figure and tables and thus has much smaller size!
cc: like in queries, sends copy of article to other addresses.
Weekly email alerts
The alerts function allows you to set up personal email
alerts. You can select a number of topics that you are interested in
and once a week this server will look for new publications on PUBMED.
If any new Publications are found, you will be informed by an email
including all abstracts found.
Feedback
your questions, comments and suggestions are highly welcome.
Please send them to:
Kurt Brauchli <kurt.brauchli@unibas.ch>
12 August 2002
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