Welcome!

Welcome to the "PubMed Tutorial", the Web-based learning program that will show you how to search PubMed®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) journal literature search system.

NOTE: The PubMed Tutorial has moved to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/ . Please update your links. We apologize for the inconvenience.

For brief tutorials on specific topics, see also the PubMed Quick Tours

This tutorial was last updated in July 2008 and reflects changes to PubMed through June 2008. To see a list of recent PubMed changes, go to PubMed's New/Noteworthy.

Using the Tutorial

The tutorial was designed to work on Windows® Operating Systems with Microsoft Internet Explorer® version 6+ or with Netscape™ version 7+, and works best on Macintosh® computers using Mozilla Firefox™ or Opera™ 8+. It contains animated demonstrations of procedures, for which you will need the Adobe® Flash™ player. The Flash player can be downloaded and installed at no cost from Adobe®. You may not be able to view the animated demonstrations if you are using another browser, such as Netscape version 6 on Windows or IE on Mac. For detailed documentation of the system requirements and known incompatibilities, please see the Tutorial FAQ.

Click Next in the sidebar to learn how to navigate through the modules of the PubMed Tutorial or click on the PubMed Overview tab above to jump right into learning about PubMed.