When you find an article listed in a research database, and the article is not immediately available to read, use the Search for Item Icon to search all of Pace's holdings to see if we have full text. If you see a message that instructs you to request the article using our ILLiad Interlibrary Loan service, logon to place your request.
It's important to understand the difference between Medline and PubMed. Medline is part of PubMed; when you search PubMed you are searching all of Medline, but if you only search Medline you will miss some material that is only in PubMed.
For a truly thorough literature search you must search PubMed, not just Medline. PubMed includes very new in-process articles that haven't yet been fully indexed for Medline, and other publications that do not meet the inclusion criteria for Medline. Be aware that by building a search in the MeSH database you are by default only searching Medline, because only articles indexed for Medline have MeSH terms assigned to them.
For more details on the differences between PubMed and Medline, see here.
Often, Google Scholar will show the citation for an article, but the full text of the article is not available for free online. You can configure Google Scholar to link you to the full-text of articles available from the Pace databases. If we don't have the article available, you can also request it through InterLibrary Loan.
An important concept in Evidence Based Practice is understanding the different levels of evidence:
