In honor of National Men’s Health Week (June 12 – June 18), here is a quick tip for finding men’s health-related content (scholarly articles, books, newspaper articles, etc.) using the search box (Summon) on the Library’s homepage.

1. Type a simple phrase (or any search terms) into the Summon search box like follows: men’s health
2. Use the filters in the left sidebar to limit the search results to newspaper articles and magazine articles. Hint: click More… below the CONTENT TYPE filter section
3. Click APPLY at the top of the page
4. Limit to content published from 2010-present

The filters built in to Summon are a good way of reducing the overall number of results, especially when searching for a general or broad topic. The remaining set of results for a search on men’s health should now be focused to relatively recent newspaper/magazine sources. You can easily change the filters to retrieve any publication type depending on your needs.

Research dataset links can now be found while using Scopus. Through collaboration with the Data Literature Interlinking (DLI) service and Scholix, Scopus is able to link articles with datasets when available on the external data repository. Now, when research datasets are available on the external data repository for an article, the Scopus Document details page will include a “Related Research Data” sidebar, located to the right of the article details.

It’s easy to see the most recent articles published by a journal in PubMed. Follow the steps below for an example finding the latest JAMA papers:

1. Access PubMed via the MSK Library website (important for accessing full text PDFs of articles). To access PubMed from the Library website, click on the PubMed link below the main search box.
2. PubMed will launch in a new window. In the PubMed search box, type in: JAMA[journal]
3. Your search results should be comprised of articles from JAMA in date order. The most recent articles will be first. Some of these articles may not be available in full text, as citations for future articles are deposited in PubMed before the issue goes to print (commonly known as epub ahead of print).
4. To access the full text of an article, click on the title you want to read. A page showing the article abstract will appear (not all citations have abstracts). Click on the blue “Fulltext@MSK” button in the upper right hand side of the page.

PubMed sometimes uses journal abbreviations to index journals. To find out the proper way to enter the journal title that will not result in an error, click on “Advanced Search.” Choose “journal” in the box that says “All Fields.” Then start typing the title of the journal you would like to read. Choose the correct journal name from the suggested drop-down list and then search.

You can also save the search and setup an alert to receive new citations to your email. Ask us for help with recurring literature alerts and saving searches in PubMed!