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Filters: Limit Your Search

Examples of filters in biomedical databases:

Article/Document Types: Review, Randomized Controlled Trial, Practice Guideline, etc.
Publication Dates
Ages, etc.
Funding Agencies
Languages

Subject Headings

Most databases have controlled vocabulary/subject headings.

Allows focus and precision.

Called MeSH in Medline/PubMed.

For a comprehensive search use keywords in addition to controlled vocabulary/subject headings.

 

Boolean Searching

                       

 

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Access journal articles through Google Scholar

To access journal articles through Google Scholar, follow our instructions to automatically connect Google Scholar search results to Temple’s licensed digital content. You do need to be signed into your Temple account to download full article PDFs. If you are signed into your Temple email, that sign-on will already be in place when you access Google Scholar.