Making PubMed Work For You
Course Description
This class is intended to hone basic searching techniques and the ability to develop search strategies that will take advantage of the PubMed interface to MEDLINE. The course will explore various methods for searching the PubMed system. Topics covered include Automatic Term Mapping, Search Results, Features Bar, Related Articles, My NCBI, Searching with MESH, Journal Database, and Single Citation Matcher.This course will provide an overview of the system and demonstrate utilizing the features of PubMed to search effectively. The 3.5-hour version of the course provides the attendees with hands-on opportunities to practice their search techniques.
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Understand how PubMed translates the user's query into a MEDLINE search.
- Be able to explain the interrelationship of the various files PubMed uses to create its interface to MEDLINE.
- Formulate a search using PubMed that yields bibliographic retrieval relevant to the search query.
- Utilize the various search options and interfaces available in PubMed to refine searching.
- Understand the basic functions of the sidebar features in PubMed.
- Learn about resources to receive current information about NLM systems and acquire materials useful for MEDLINE searching.
Course Materials
Continuing Education
This course has been approved for 2.5 or 3.5 hours of Medical Library Association Continuing Education Units.
Instructors:
Holly Burt, Outreach and Exhibits Coordinator, haburt@uic.edu, 312-996-2464
Rebecca Brown, Kansas/Technology Liaison, rbrown3@kumc.edu, 913-588-7307
Arpita Bose, Acting Associate Director; Outreach and Communications Coordinator, arpita.bose@med.nyu.edu, 212-263-4176
Maryanne Blake, Outreach/Evaluation Coordinator, blakema@u.washington.edu, 206-221-3405
Linda Milgrom, Outreach Coordinator, lmilgrom@u.washington.edu, 206-221-3400
Alan Carr, Outreach Coordinator, acarr@library.ucla.edu, 310-825-7263
Kay Deeney, Education Coordinator, kdeeney@library.ucla.edu, 310-206-0525
Julie Kwan, Library Network Coordinator, jkkwan@library.ucla.edu, 310-825-5342
Toni Yancey, Outreach Exhibits Coordinator, tyancey@hshsl.umaryland.edu, 410-706-2855
Update Authors
Editor: Kay Deeney, Education Coordinator, Pacific Southwest
Region
Adapted from courses developed by the National Training Center
and Clearinghouse (NTCC) of the The National Network of Libraries
of Medicine located at The New York Academy of Medicine.
Original Authors
Kathy J. Davies, MLS, Former GMR Outreach Coordinator now
Assistant Professor and Education Coordinator Medical College of
Georgia
Margarete(Peggy)Falls, MLS, AHIP, former Outreach Coordinator, Middle
Atlantic Region