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Medline

This guides elaborates how to do effective literature searching in Medline (OVID) for AUB students, staff, and faculty can use to search health and medical research..

Sharing your Search Strategy &/OR your Results

On top of the results page, you have the options to "Print", "Email", "Export"... This can be done for all the retrieved results (up to 2,000 bibliographies at a time) or after selecting one or more of the citations.

Exporting your Search Strategy &/OR your Results

Exporting the Search Strategy Exporting the Results  

Click on "Export" by default the format is selected to be "Microsoft Word", however, unless you click "Search History", you would not be able to export your Search Strategy.

This Word document can be shared to replicate and/or edit the search.

The default exploded number is 10, the number of results on the page, this can be changed to be 2,000 at a time.
  • Export on Word document as in "Exporting the Search Strategy"

OR

  • Click on "Export" from the Format drop-down menu, select "Endnote". To retrieve the "Citations, Abstracts, Subject Headings", select it from the drop-down menu of the Fields.

You can export up to 2,000 records at a time. They will be saved into a file type entitled "CGI File (.cgi)". Double click on the file, the results will directly show in Endnote or you will have to import the file in Endnote following the below steps:

  1. Browse for the file
  2. Select the Import Option to be “Medline (OVIDSP)"
  3. Select the folder you want the references to be imported to
  4. Click “Import”/Press “Enter”

Saving Your Search

To save your search, you will need to 

1- Click on Save All 

2- Sign up the first time and sign in every other time.