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Retrieval comparison of EndNote to search MEDLINE (Ovid and PubMed) versus searching them directly.

Using EndNote version 7.0, the authors tested the search capabilities of the EndNote search engine for retrieving citations from MEDLINE for importation into EndNote, a citation management software package. Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed were selected for the comparison. Several searches were performed on...

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Published in:Medical Reference Services Quarterly Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 25 - 33
Main Authors: Gall C, Brahmi FA
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Fall2004
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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          Gall C
          Brahmi FA
        affil: Development Officer & Manager Print Journal Collection, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine, 975 West Walnut Street, IB Rm 322, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5121; cfgall@iupui.edu
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          Computerized Literature Searching Methods
          Database Management Software
          Information Retrieval Evaluation
          Medline
          Web Search Engines Evaluation
          Bibliography and References
          Comparative Studies
          Database Vendors
          Descriptive Statistics
          PubMed
          Vocabulary, Controlled
          Human
      ab: Using EndNote version 7.0, the authors tested the search capabilities of the EndNote search engine for retrieving citations from MEDLINE for importation into EndNote, a citation management software package. Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed were selected for the comparison. Several searches were performed on Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed using EndNote as the search engine, and the same searches were run on both Ovid and PubMed directly. Findings indicate that it is preferable to search MEDLINE directly rather than using EndNote. The publishers of EndNote do warn its users about the limitations of their product as a search engine when searching external databases. In this article, the limitations of EndNote as a search engine for searching MEDLINE were explored as related to MeSH, non-MeSH, citation verification, and author searching.
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