Looking It Up

One of the tricks of researching information on topic is to start with a very recent review paper and then to follow the references in the text backward to the original articles. You can then look at the abstracts to see if the article may be useful before purchasing it.

Finding the abstract for an article when you have the citation is easy with the Single Citation Matcher on PubMed. You don't even need to have the full citation for the matcher to work. I have succesfully used the Single Citation Matcher feature when all I've had is an author name and publication year vaguely recalled from the head of a contributing author.

1. From PubMed home page, click on Single Citation Matcher on the left navigation bar. This will take you to the single citation matcher page.
2. Enter whatever information you have about the article that you wish to find in the appropriate search boxes in the form
3. Click 'Go'

It really is that simple.