PubMed® Online Training
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The PubMed Tutorial is based on the NLM's one-day PubMed training course.
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The following are brief animated tutorials with audio for using PubMed. Running times are rounded to the nearest minute. Click on the link to launch the tour.
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- Getting Started with My NCBI (approx. 5 min., revised April 2006)
How to register, sign in and out, change your password, and what to do if you've forgotten your password.
- Saving Searches (approx. 4 min., revised June 2005)
How to save a PubMed search, to run later or to have results sent to your e-mail account.
- Changing Saved Searches (approx. 3 min., December 2007)
How to change a search saved in My NCBI.
- Filters (approx. 7 min., revised July 2005)
How to create filters to group your search results.
- LinkOut Filters (approx. 6 min., revised September 2005)
How to display LinkOut icons on citations, group your search results by LinkOut resources, and save a search for citations with links to a particular resource.
- Library LinkOut Filters (approx. 4 min., revised August 2006)
How to display your library's LinkOut icons on citations, group resources available from your library, and save a search for articles that are available from your library.
- Collections (approx. 3 min., revised April 2008)
How to save citations using My NCBI.
- Editing Collections (approx. 4 min., revised April 2008)
How to append to, delete items from, and rename collections of PubMed citations in My NCBI.
- E-mail Alerts for Articles about Adverse Effects (approx. 4 min., May 2006)
How to create e-mail alerts for new articles about the adverse effects of a drug or class of drugs.
- E-mail Alerts for Articles from Your Favorite Journals (approx. 4 min., revised April 2007)
How to create e-mail alerts for new articles from a set of journals.
- Customizing PubMed's Display of Single Citations (approx. 2 min., August 2006)
How to select a display format for single citations using My NCBI User Preferences.
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Search Clinic: PubMed® Update on Automatic Term Mapping, Citation Sensor, and Advanced Search (Recording of Online Instruction, July 2008)
Search Clinic: Chemicals & Drugs in PubMed (Recording of Online Instruction, August 2007)
The Basics of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) (Instructional Web site)
Branching Out: The MeSH® Vocabulary (Instructional Video)
For additional instruction on using PubMed, see the following resources:
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