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Importing TOXLINE Special Citations into Reference Manager.
A 2-minute online tutorial developed by the Specialized Information Services (SIS) designed to guide useres with importing TOXLINE Special citations into the bibliographic organizer Reference Manager. ***Uses Macromedia's Flash Player

My NCBI-Filters
This 7 minute tutorial demonstrates the filters feature which allows a searcher to group search results by areas of interest.

NLM's Applying Subheadings and Other Features of the MeSH Database
Third animated tutorial in a series of three tutorials about using PubMed's MeSH Database. This 4-minute tutorial explains applying subheadings and other features of PubMed's MeSH Database.

NLM's Branching Out: The MeSH Vocabulary
This is a video produced by the National Library of Medicine highlighting many of the features and functions of the controlled vocabulary known as MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). MeSH is used by online searchers, indexers, and catalogers. A copy for viewing is available for loan from your National Network of Libraries of Medicine (RML) office. Please call 1-800-338-7657 for further information.

NLM's Combining MeSH Terms Using the MeSH Database
Second animated tutorial in a series of three about using PubMed's MeSH Database. This 3-minute tutorial explains how to combine MeSH terms using PubMed's MeSH Database.

NLM's MedlinePlus Tour
This tour from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) of MedlinePlus introduces users to the content of MedlinePlus.

NLM's PubMed Simple Subject Search Example
This one minute tutorial from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) demonstrates how to perform a basic sinple MEDLINE search.

NLM's PubMed Tutorial
Online interactive tutorial introducing users to the functions and search features of PubMed produced by National Library of Medicine (NLM).

NLM's Quick Tour on Searching by Journal in PubMed
A five-minute NLM Quick Tour of how to search for a journal in PubMed.

NLM's Quick Tour: Customize the display of your NLM Gateway seach results
This 2-minute tutorial demonstrates the ability to customize the display of your NLM Gateway search results.

NLM's Quick Tour: Saving Searches with My NCBI
This 4 minute tutorial will demonstrate how to save a search strategy in My NCBI.

NLM's Searching by Author In the NLM Catolog
Enhanced Author searching techniques in MEDLINE are demonstrated.

NLM's Searching by Corporate Author or Conference
4-minute tutorial on searching by the data field "Corporate Author" or "Conference".

NLM's Searching by Series in the NLM Catalog
How to search for Series publications in the NLM Catalog.

NLM's Searching PubMed by Author and Subject
Author and Subject searching techniques are demonstrated.

NLM's Searching with NLM LOCATORplus - Online Help
Collection of tutorials on searching LocatorPlus.

Quick Tour of NLM's Environmental Health and Toxicology Resources
This 4-minute tutorial is an over view of the resources available from the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program. It highlights databases created for the public and databases created for the researcher or scientist. "On the right hand side of the page click on the movie projector icon."

The Basics of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
This is an NLM web-based instructional resource about understanding the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and how to use them to search MEDLINE®/PubMed® for medical literature and information. The user learns about: the structure of the MeSH hierarchy, how indexers select terms when indexing articles for MEDLINE and how to use MeSH to search PubMed for treatment of chemical and drug terms

The NLM Catalog via Entrez
An introduction to the National Library of Medicine's Catalog.

Tox Mystery
Tox Mystery is the National Library of Medicine's interactive learning site, designed to help children age 7 to 10 find clues about toxic substances that can lurk in the home. With lively animations, surprising sound effects and lots of positive reinforcement, Tox Mystery provides a fun, game-like experience, while teaching important lessons about potential environmental health hazards. ToxMystery is available in both English and Spanish, letting players toggle between the two languages as they explore. Tox Mystery can be used in science, health, and even in Spanish and English language classes. Includes a section for teachers.

Tox Town en espanol
Tox Town en español identifies Spanish-language information in a subject area – environmental health and toxicology – that currently has few Web resources. To supplement the limited Web resources in Spanish, nearly 100 pages of background information describing environmental health concerns were translated and reviewed by a team of bilingual health information specialists.

Toxicology Tutorials
The Toxicology Tutorials are comprised of three tutorials produced by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program of the National Library of Medicine. They are written to provide a basic understanding of toxicology as an aide for users of toxicology literature contained in NLM's Chemical and Toxicological databases.

Tutorial: Setting Up LinkOut for Libraries
This tutorial is a companion to the printed document "LinkOut and Libraries (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/doc/liblinkout.html)." Check this document out. After using this program, a user will be able to set up a LinkOut account, complete library indentity information, enter their library holdings, display the libraries' icon. The tutorial also includes tips and tricks.

Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) Basics
This is a Web-based learning program that will educate you about the basic principles of the UMLS.

Using Limits in the NLM Catalog
How to use the Limits feature to narrow your search.

Finding Health Information Online
an online tutorial to be used to teach new users to the Internet how to use search engines to find health information, and how to evaluate the information they find.

Searching PubMed with MeSH [PDF]
A trifold phamplet (hand out) highlighting major aspects of the MeSH controlled vocabulary.

Evidence based Public Health Nursing (EBPHN) Tutorial
This tutorial is made up of 6 training modules that were developed by librarians and nurses in order to enhance the search skills of public health nurses as they search for evidence based public health nursing information.

Health Literacy: New Fields, New Opportunities
This tutorial outlines the challenges and the roles for the health literacy practitioners.

Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals
This is a joint project amongst several agencies to provide public health professionals with timely, convenient access to information resources. See Comment field for list of agencies.

Search Clinic: Chemicals & Drugs in PubMed®
Learn how to find articles about a chemical or drug of interest. On August 23, 2007 the U.S. National Library of Medicine hosted a 45-minute online search clinic on how the NLM MeSH vocabulary is used to describe substance concepts and how to search PubMed® for relevant substance articles.

Tox Town
This is an interactive web page guiding one to commonly encountered toxic substances, and interactions with your health and the environment. A new feature has been added to the Toxtown web site--Tox City. To experience the "interactivity," you need Macromedia Flash Player, a plug-in for web browsers.

Desseminating the Evidence Base in Public Health Nursing
The website promotes the use of evidence in population-based decisions. This website includes links to evidence-based practice resources, online tutorials develped to enhance the search skills of public health nurses as they search for evidence-based public health nursing, and an online Evidence Based Public Health Nursing Disseration Repository.

Evidence Based Medicine Information
Tutorial to acquaint one with Evidence Based Medicine.

Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency and Limited English Proficiency.
Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency is a free on-line learning experience that will help you: improve your patient communication skills increase your awareness and knowledge of the three main factors that affect your communication with patients: health literacy, cultural competency and low English proficiency implement patient-centered communication practices that demonstrate cultural competency and appropriately address patients with limited health literacy and low English proficiency You may choose to take the course for credit (CEU/CE, CHES, CME, CNE) or not for credit. The course has five modules and is estimated to take a total of 5 hours to complete. You may complete the course at your own pace.