An introduction to basic searching of the National Library of Medicine's biomedical database, MEDLINE, using the PubMed interface.

 

At the completion of this class, the participant will:

• Understand what PubMed is as well as its major subsections (MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE and Publisher Supplied Citations)
• Be familiar with each of the following sections of the PubMed interface: Limits, History, Clipboard, and Details
• Know how to formulate and execute a MEDLINE search
• Be able to sort, print, and save selected citations
• Know the basics of using some of the additional tools that are a part of PubMed (Journal Browser, MeSH Browser, and Single Citation Matcher)

 

Guides:

• PubMed Guide (Galter)
• PubMed Tutorial (NLM)
• Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed Compared
• How to Find an Article

Videos:

This video is hosted in Northwestern Medicine's institutional repository, Prism, and requires an NU NetID login. Once in Prism, click the "Download" link for the best quality.

• PubMed: The Basics Video and Transcript (Galter Library)

These videos from the National Library of Medicine cover all the PubMed functionality we would go over in one of our classes. 

• Find articles on a topic
• Subject search: how it works
• Find articles by author
• Find articles by journal
• Find articles from a citation
• Use MeSH to build a better PubMed query
• Save Search Results in Collections
• My NCBI Bibliography
• Save searches and set e-mail alerts

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