Begin Medline searches using PubMed's MeSH Browser. Combine your terms and click PubMed Search to reveal your citations. (PubMed has several advantages in my opinion over Ovid for using as your entry to Medline: faster, strategy saving, outside full-text links, possibly more up to date with slightly more journals.)
	Narrow the range of your search by clicking Limits . For the Publication Date option, generally enter years only since journals differ in how they report dates. Your results do not appear in chronologic order because they are sorted by their Entrez dates, the dates the entries were made in the Medline database. To view a truly "by date" listing, when viewing results select the Sort drop-down menu, choose Pub Date, and click Display. For Publication Type, choose the relevant article type. Clinical Trial will give you an "evidence-based" result by providing primary literature citations. The last common limit is choosing the language. Then, click Go to return to your revised search.
	Save your search strategy for future retrieval using Cubby.
	Full-text? Try these methods in succession. Click the authors' names to view the complete reference. If an icon to the publisher is present, click to view full-text from selected publishers. Go to the Galter Library E-journal listing to see if your journal is available online. Then drill down to the article within its journal.
	Bonus Before finishing your search, it's often useful to run a text based search using the initial search page to PubMed. This last step will reveal recent articles not yet reviewed by bibliographers that consequently do not appear in MeSH search results. The Clipboard is useful for organizing citations that are not available online for printing a list to take to the library. Choose send-to Clipboard to add items to the clipboard for retrieval up to one hour later; you must continue to keep your Internet browser open. Choose the Clipboard link to view these items. Clipboard items cannot be added to Cubby. When viewing the Clipboard, it's often useful to sort by Journal Name and then click the Text button to print a copy to carry to the library. PubMed also offers pre-made searches designed for clinical relevance including options to limit to systematic reviews of the literature. If you're simply looking for a review article, don't forget about using the internal medicine review article searches. Sometimes you may find it useful to click on the "related articles" link that follows the citations listed. This is most useful if your search strategy is not finding enough relevant articles.