Searching IndMED

Tutorial prepared for NetRUM Group

Simple Search

• Visit http://indmed.nic.in• Enter Simple Keywords – Say “Malaria”

You will results like this.

You select references and Re-Display them in

various formats

Or can see detailed

reference directly

Further you may also explore related information on the title of the reference

from Google

You would be required to know little bit of “Boolean Operators” to issue a multi-worded Query

AND means All Words Should be ThereOR means ANY of the Words Should be ThereNOT means the Word After NOT Should Not be There

NOTE

From the result page you may even refine you query. For example I want

“Malaria” to be retrieved in context to Delhi”. So I have added “AND delhi”. I have to click on Begin New Search to

execute this search.

Results of the refined query will be shown.

Have you noticed this ICON. It means full text of the article is

available.

This Full Text comes from medIND that host 40 Indian medical journals.

However very few references may be having such full text links.

Advanced Search

Click on IndMED to see more information about

Information

Scroll down to see all Search Options

Observer various search option.

Let us try advanced search.

You might have noticed that our previous queries were not giving very precise results.

It was retrieving references having keywords anywhere in the reference.

For example, Delhi was coming from Address of the author in some references. The article itself had nothing to do with “malaria in delhi”

In Advanced Search, We can qualify the search keywords.

This gives us fewer but relevant references

You can even restrict to retrieve only those references

where full text is available. Remember – there would be

very few articles.