10 + 1 PubMed tips

The link below has some tips for beginning as well as more advanced PubMed searchers.

10 + 1 PubMed tips by a clinical librarian Laika

“PubMed is the platform that offers free  access to 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals. 18 million, that is a tremendous amount of literature! And that is one of the main problems: the sheer amount makes it very difficult to “pick the needle from the haystack”.”

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PubMed Tutorial

PubMed has developed and released a new online tutorial that will show you how to search PubMed®.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand PubMed’s scope and content.
• Understand how the MeSH vocabulary is used to describe and retrieve citations.
• Build a search using MeSH and PubMed search tools (Details, Limits, History, etc.)
• Manage your results using display, sort, the Clipboard, save, print, e-mail and order features and My NCBI filters.
• Save your search strategies.
• Link to full-text articles and other resources.
• Use special queries and other PubMed/NCBI tools.

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Steps in Using RSS in PubMed/Medline

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MyNCBI: Pubmed Your Way

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