Basic PubMED
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this class, the student will be able to:
- Connect to PubMed http://pubmed.gov
- Demonstrate the use of MeSH Browser: subheadings, major topic headings & the explode function for subject headings.
- Understand concept of controlled vocabulary and the principle of choosing the most specific subject term that represents the desired concept.
- Demonstrate use of textwords (keywords) when an appropriate subject heading (MeSH heading) does not exist.
- Understand the functions of the important tabs on the PubMed home page: Limits, History, Clipboard, Details.
- Demonstrate a simple search after choosing subject headings from MeSH Browser.
- Demonstrate the same search in Clinical Queries (Evidence-Based Medicine).
- Demonstrate limiting the simple search to English, Human, Review articles, last 5 years etc.
- Understand the various display options: Summary, Abstract, Citation plus sort & text formats:
- Choose several refs & place on clipboard. Go to Clipboard and remove one ref.
- Choose several refs & email them to yourself in abstracts format & text format.
- Demonstrate how to bring up the full text of the free full text articles (from PubMed Central or other free sources)
- Be familiar with six major functions on the left sidebar of PubMed: Clinical Queries, Clincial Alerts, My NCBI, Clinical Trials, Consumer Health, PubMed Central.
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- Basic PubMed Searching Part 1
Learn to use keyword searching and set basic limits to look for information in PubMed. Time: approx. 4 minutes.
- Basic PubMed Searching Part 2
Continuing from the skills learned above, learn how to view abstracts and download or print full-text articles from PubMed. Time: approx. 4 minutes
PubMed Tutorials
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
This tutorial can be used in its entirety or users may select the following individual sections:
- PubMed Overview
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1004.html
Gives and overview of PubMed and MeSH Vocabulary
- Using PubMed
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m2001.html
Learn to navigate PubMed's home page, use the sidebar to access PubMed services and resources, enter queries to search, understand and use Boolean operators, and understand how PubMed optimizes your search strategy.
- Working with Search Results
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m3001.html
This module shows how to use the Search Results screen and the various Action Bar selections that allow you to manipulate your search results. By the end of this module, you should be able to: understand the layout of the search results screen, change the display format of the retrieved citations, adjust the number of citations displayed on a page, move between pages of results, sort your results, save and view selected citations, print citations, and save your search strategy.
- Features Tab
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m4001.html
Shows how to use Limits, History, Preview/Index, Clipboard, and Details.
- My NCBI
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m4101.html
Shows how to register, store searches, and edit user preferences.
- Introduction to Links
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m5001.html
Shows how to use links to Related Articles, Links, LinkOut, NCBI Databases, and Books.
- PubMed Services
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m6001.html
Shows how to use the MeSH Database, Journals Database, Citation Matcher, and Clinical Queries
- Search Field Descriptions
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m7001.html
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