Records for three articles were each found* in three databases: PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE and Ovid EMBASE.
PubMed
- Single Citation Matcher: The auto-suggest function was helpful but I was surprised to find multiple versions of the name of a single journal, so I decided to fill in fewer fields. Namely, author’s last name, year & date and a keyword in the title field, which got me the result I needed. Good for bibliographic validation — finding a single paper.
- Search Builder: More choices for fields to search than the citation matcher; although it took more clicks, it would be easier to create a complicated search with the search builder than with the citation matcher.
- Citation includes abbreviated publication name, full abstract, and hyperlinked author last names + first 2 initials, email address of first author and nearly complete mailing address of the first author’s institution.
- Collapsed fields: Publication Types (Review, Comment). MeSH Terms in alphabetical order with most important terms marked by an asterisk. Substances mentioned in the article are also listed.
Ovid MEDLINE
- Authors: Hyperlinked author last names + first 2 initials plus a separate field for authors’ full names. Full mailing address of first author’s insitituyion and email address.
- Source: Lists full source name, abbreviation and NLM journal name. Publishing model included (“Journal available in” and “Citation processed from”). Language, ISSN, and several dates included (Publication, Created, Entry, Update). Also lists the article’s status (“MEDLINE”).
- Title: Includes type of publication (except if a comment) [Review] and number of references [60 refs] in the title field.
- CAS Registry or EC Numbers and Names of Substances listed.
Ovid EMBASE
- Authors: Hyperlinked last names + first 2 initials. Mailing address of first author noted, with that author’s last name in parentheses preceding address. No email address.
- Subject headings: listed before the abstract, with starred headings listed last — terms are otherwise in alphabetical order.
- References: this field is given a separate line and is not listed in the title field like Medline.
- DOI URL listed.
- Copyright field is unique to Embase.
- Date fields include Entry Week, Date Delivered, Year of Publication.
- Listed insulin as the only substance.
- *Did not find a comment on an original article (Lavie CJ, Milani RV, O’Keefe JH. Does the choice of statin really matter? Postgrad Med. 2010 May;122(3):243-7. PubMed PMID: 20463437) despite it having a PubMed ID.
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