You bring up some good points. Thank you. While not medical-related, I do some research , query writing and data analysis as part of my job. Never be satisfied with the first search you do.

Say you looking for song titles by the Beatles. Because of typos and other errors, you may also want to look at beatles (lower case “b”) or BEETLES, or Beetles, or beetles, or betles, and so on. Some search engines are powerful enough to include all of those different spelling possibilities, but you may catch some additional data on your own if you use your imagination and really look around.

The main database I work with has rules that say a name is supposed to be entered: Truman Harry S – last name first, with no comma and no period for the middle initial. But I may never find it if that is all I look for and someone mistakenly put it in as Harry S. Truman or even Truman, Harry S.

Good luck with your research.

Mike

Using Mike's example of a name, for PubMed author search it would be:

Truman HS

If you have the PMID # from the abstract, you can search that way too. It appears at the end of the abstract paper.

Our rules for posting links, quotes, and copyrights, do exclude the need for a link on PubMed, if you include that PMID #.
Sometimes if you go to the right of the page and click on a "related" paper, that link can be HUGE.... I have found since they redid the format at PubMed, the linking addy can be very confusing at times. I try to put it up anyway, so people can find it quickly.

PubMed is the ONLY place we allow quotes with no link provided, to the abstracts. Any other quoting or linking must be done carefully here. You may only quote a small passage and always provide links when using the linking feature.

Here is a post explaining linking issues:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread37384.html
Please read it all to the end.

On a similar note, I ran across the title of a report that I would very much like to read but do not know how to access:

(I think that this is from a recent neurology publication)

"Complex Regional Pain Syndrome I as a Small-Fiber Neuropathy
A review of evidence that supports this often overlooked pathology as a cause of CRPS I — Robert J. Schwartzman, MD

My 18-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with RSD in 2005 recently had biopsies that show that she has small fiber neuropathy. I am now attempting to research this so as to better understand the implications of this new diagnosis. I would very much appreciate some direction.

Pubmed Central has the full text studys if over a certain amount of time since release.. open access is becomming much more public