PubMed/History, Advanced
Search and Review
(module 4.3)
MODULE 4.3
PubMed/History, Advanced
Search & Review
Instructions - This part of the:
course is a PowerPoint demonstration
intended to introduce you to PubMed/Preview,
Index & History; accessing Full-Text Articles.
module is off-line and is intended as an
information resource for reference use.
Table of Contents
 History
 Advanced Search
 Accessing full text articles from
HINARI/PubMed
 Full text article access problems
Before logging into the Partner Publisher
services websites, we will Login to the
HINARI site using the URL
http://www.who.int/hinari/
You need to enter your HINARI User Name and Password in the
appropriate boxes, then click on the Login button. To have
access to the full text articles, you must properly sign in.
If you do not use the Internet Explorer Web browser, this slide
will not appear (as of 01 April 2014). If you use Internet
Explorer, you will continue to have a two-step login process.
Repeat the Login process on this
2nd page and you will be redirected
to the HINARI Contents page.
Remember - If you fail to use the
Login page, you will have a second
option on the Content sub-page.
Once you are logged in to the HINARI
Content page, access PubMed by clicking on
Search inside HINARI full-text using PubMed.
To access the History option, click
on the Advanced Search option.
We will discuss History, which is a
feature of the Advanced Search Builder
option. Access to Advanced Search is
from the initial PubMed page or the
Search Results page.
Note that Search History will be lost
after 8 hours and the maximum number
of searches is 100.
To build a search using History, begin by putting
in your broadest search term. In this example,
we will use treatment as our initial search term.
The result for the treatment search is
over 8 million articles. This can be
viewed as a search set by clicking on
the Advanced (History) page.
On the Advanced Search Builder (History) page,
our first search is given a set number identified by
the # symbol - in this example it is #1. On the
right side of the page, the number of articles is
shown under the Items found column. In this
case, a total of over 8 million citations. We will
return to PubMed Home by clicking on the
hypertext link.
Note that the numbers for your searches may
vary depending if you have previously searched
that day in PubMed.
We now have searched for malaria as a second
search term and have 68106 citations. As in the
previous result, the malaria search also can be viewed
by returning to the Advanced (History) page.
We now will click on Add for #1 AND #2
and click on Search - to create the
combined result for the two search terms
– treatment AND malaria. These two
search terms are added to the Builder.
The search has narrowed the results
down further to 32754 articles. Click
on the Advanced link to return to the
Advanced Search (History) page.
We now combine the latest search (#3) with the
geographic term Africa by adding both terms in
the Builder boxes and clicking on Search.
You also can click on Add for #3 and then add
Africa to the next line of the Builder.
Search #4 now is treatment AND
malaria AND Africa with a result of
8651 citations. Next we will open the
searches’ Summary display setting
by clicking on the Items Found #.
Note: to clear these searches, click
on Clear History button.
This is the Summary display for
the combined #4 search.
We now will proceed to the
Advanced Search slides.