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NLM Training Manuals and Resources

This page includes links to the training resources used in conjunction with the classes offered by the National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC).

The PubMed^® Tutorial offers a just-in-time training alternative. The PubMed Tutorial is a Web-based interactive tutorial that enables anyone using a computer with Internet access to learn about PubMed. The tutorial can be reached directly from the PubMed sidebar by clicking "Tutorials." Other distance education resources for NLM products may also be of interest.

Training materials for the courses are available in the following formats:

Materials for PubMed, NLM Gateway, and ClinicalTrials.gov classes—in Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft^® (MS) Word
Materials for TOXNET^® and Beyond class—in PDF
Materials for Unified Medical Language System^® (UMLS^®) class—as PowerPoint slides
Materials for Molecular Biology Information Resources class—as HTML documents

These workbooks are not copyrighted. Feel free to use any part of the workbooks - you may customize parts for training programs, demonstrations, or workshops you conduct.

Course Name	Download Formats	File Size
*NLM Training: PubMed* 1-day class January 2009	PDF	4.96MB
*NLM Training: PubMed* 1-day class January 2009	MS Word	6.39MB
*NLM Training: NLM Gateway & ClinicalTrials.gov* 1/2-day class February 2009	PDF	5.14MB
	MS Word	15.3MB
*TOXNET and Beyond: Using the National Library of Medicine Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal* 1-day class January 2009	PDF	6.0MB
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Basics 1-day class December 2008	PDF
Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources 3-day class December 2004	Web site

PDF formats are best viewed with Adobe^® Acrobat^® Reader^™.

Last reviewed: 25 March 2009
Last updated: 25 March 2009
First published: 01 January 2003
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