PubMed
Description of the resource
PubMed is a free resource that comprises of over 22 million citations and abstracts. It is updated weekly and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
PubMed includes citations and abstracts from fields such as, medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and public health. PubMed does not include the full text to the article. The abstract page will provide the link to the full text from other sources, such as the publishers website. Some full text articles can be found through NLM's free digital archive PMC (formerly know as PubMed Central). Citation: PubMed. Accessed November 11, 2013. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed. |
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PubMed Home Page
- A - Dropbox, can change which NML resource the user is searching
- B - Search Box (use Boolean Operators), Advanced option
- C - Sign in or create a NCBI account
- D - FAQs and Tutorials
- E - The mobile application and the Citation Matcher
- F - Other resources the user might find helpful
Advanced Searching
- Advanced search allows users to create their own boolean search or use the search builder that will format the search for them.
- AND is the default but NOT & OR are in the drop down box
- Add to history allows the user to see how many items are found from the search as is.
- Show index list' shows an alphabetical list of all search terms within that search field
- To search for full text articles use in the search bar: AND pubmed pmc [sb]
Full Text Searching
- 'Text availability' allows the users to chose full text available, which will only return citations and abstracts that are available online behind a paywall, as well as ones available for free.
- For UTexas users, be sure NOT to check free full text available UT Libraries might have access to articles through other databases.
- UT users should also be sure to click to all of the abstract pages to check if the article can be found at UT
- At the bottom of the abstract page, 'LinkOut' feature gives other resources where the full text can be found.
- If the sources is free, there will be a button in the top right corner that will link you to the full text source
- For UT users there will be a 'Find@UT' button, if UTexas Libraries has access to that article
Single Citation Matcher allows the user to search for a specific citation, abstract or article
There is also a Batch Citation Matcher which allows the user to search for multiple, specific sources at once.
There is also a Batch Citation Matcher which allows the user to search for multiple, specific sources at once.
Creating a NCBI Account
- Creating a free NCBI account allows the user to:
- Save searches
- Create collections of citations for specific purposes
- Control filters
- Shows recent activity
- Create a bibliography
- NCBI accounts can be used for other NCBI resources and databases