Topic updates
Want to receive details of new journal articles in areas of interest to you? You can store a search in Medline or Pubmed, and, when the database is updated, new articles that match your terms will be sent to you by email or as an RSS feed.
- How to create an alert
- Journal contents pages
- Updates on O&G topics Fellows, Members and Trainees only
- Finding full text articles
Many of the databases relevant to O&G can provide automatic alerts of new articles in your chosen topics. Guidance on setting up updates using either Pubmed or OVID Medline is available.
Pubmed and Ovid Medline contain essentially the same information, but are searched in different ways.
- Pubmed
Pubmed is updated daily and is freely available to all. The online help includes sections on Automatic email updates and Saving searches as RSS.
- OVID Medline
OVID Medline is available to RCOG Fellows, Members and Trainees and includes information about journals held by the RCOG Library. The Cochrane Library and some full text journals are also available through OVID. The Medline database is updated weekly. Searches to be run regularly are called Autoalerts, and are saved in the "My Workspace" area of OVID. See page 8 of the Quick reference guide for more details.
Tips for search strategies
You can make your search as simple or as complicated as you wish, but some key things to remember are:
- Only the articles retreived by the LAST LINE of the search strategy will be sent to you. Pubmed searches need to be complete in one line. OVID searches can be built up in several stages.
- In OVID: limits (e.g. to review articles, or English language articles only) are routinely applied to the last line of the search, unless you specifically select another line. In Pubmed, in contrast, limits apply until switched off
- If you are limiting by date, remember to leave the end date open ended (in OVID choose "Current, in PubMed choose something like "last 3 years".
- Example strategies, as used in these RSS feeds are:
Multiple pregnancy (Pubmed)
multiple pregnancy[MAJR]
limit to human, and articles pblished in the last year
Prenatal testing and screening (OVID)
This uses a mixture of MeSH headings and textword searching.
- exp *prenatal diagnosis/
- exp *Fetal Diseases/di [Diagnosis]
- *mass screening/
- (antenatal$ or ante-natal$ or (ante adj natal$) or prenatal$ or pre-natal$ or (pre adj natal$) or pregnan$).mp. [mp=title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word]
- 3 and 4
- 1 or 2 or 5
- limit 6 to human
- limit 7 to yr=2011-current
Details of how to subscribe to email alerts, and RSS feeds for contents pages can be found in our journals list. Click on an individual journal title for the links.
If you would like to read the full text of an article found by one of your updates, look for a link to free full text. Be advised that links to publishers sites within feed items will often request a subscription or payment.
Check the RCOG journals page to see if the College provides full text access, or request a copy using our document delivery service.
Further information
Please contact the Library if you have any questions about creating or subscribing to RSS feeds, for advice on suitable search terms, or to suggest topics to be added to this list.