Searching for Medical Articles on Medline
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Click Google > type medline > click I’m Feeling Lucky > click PubMed
Type in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Now that you are connected:
Type your search word or words in the box and click GO
Boolean operators, AND, OR, NOT must be entered in upper case.
To search a specific journal:
Type the journal’s abbreviated
title or the journal’s ISSN # space [ta] space AND space
your search term click GO
either of these will work:
am j nurs [ta] AND lupus
0002-936X [ta] AND lupus
Abbreviations of
Medical Journal Names:
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ABBREVIATION |
ISSN # |
TITLE and holdings |
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Am Fam Physician |
0002-838X |
American Family Physician, * |
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Am J Nurs |
0002-936X |
American Journal of Nursing, ** |
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Am J Public Health |
0090-0036 |
American Journal of Public Health, * |
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Emergency |
0162-5942 |
Emergency, 1993-June 1998 |
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Emerg Med |
0013-6654 |
Emergency Medicine, * |
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Harv Health Lett |
1052-1577 |
Harvard Health Letter, October 1990- |
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Hastings Cent Rep |
0093-0334 |
Hastings Center Report, 1991- |
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Hosp Health Netw |
1068-8838 |
Hospitals and Health Networks, June 1993- |
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JAMA |
0098-7484 |
JAMA, 1990- |
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J AHIMA |
1060-5487 |
Journal of AHIMA [American Health Information Management], September 1994- |
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J Gerontol Nurs |
0098-9134 |
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, June 1991-2000 |
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J Holist Nurs |
0898-0101 |
Journal of Holistic Nursing, December 1998- |
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J Law Med Ethics |
1073-1105 |
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Spring 1994-2000 |
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ABBREVIATION |
ISSN # |
TITLE and holdings |
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J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv |
0279-3695 |
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1985- |
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J Sch Health |
0022-4391 |
Journal of School Health, 1988-2000 |
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J Am Diet Assoc |
0002-8223 |
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1995-2000 |
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Lancet |
0140-6736 |
Lancet, 1994- |
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MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs |
0361-929X |
MCN: the American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 1990-2000 |
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MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep |
0149-2195 |
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 1998- |
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Mod Healthc |
0160-7480 |
Modern Healthcare, current 3 years |
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Nature |
0028-0836 |
Nature, April 1994- |
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N Engl J Med |
0028-4793 |
New England Journal of Medicine, 1990- |
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Nursing |
0360-4039 |
Nursing 2000, 2001, ** |
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Nurs Clin North Am |
0029-6465 |
Nursing Clinics of North America, ** |
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Nurs Res |
0029-6562 |
Nursing Research, 1990-2000 |
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Nutr Rev |
0029-6643 |
Nutrition Reviews, * |
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RN |
0033-7021 |
RN [Registered Nurse], ** |
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Top Health Inf Manage |
1065-0989 |
Topics in Health Information Management, May 1994 |
LM 26 February 2001, revised on 3 April 2001