PubMed Ten-Tips  

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If you are a biomedical researcher, clinician, teacher, or student you probably have used or will use MEDLINE for most of your literature searching. The Health Sciences Library provides access to MEDLINE via the PubMed search system from the National Library of Medicine. PubMed is an expanded version of MEDLINE, with not only the core medical database but also articles from OldMEDLINE (pre-1966), PreMEDLINE (most recent two weeks, and updated nightly), and publisher-contributed individual articles. All told, PubMed contains more than 17 million citations and can be searched for free from anywhere in the world.

The system is very powerful but not always fully intuitive. We recognize that you may have specific search strategies that you want to learn how to do in PubMed. While you are always welcome to attend a class or get a one-on-one consultation, you may want to use the following ten tips for self-study or as a reference.

The Basics: Simple Searching and Viewing Results Setting Limits Combining Searches Using History Viewing Full-Text Documents Saving, Emailing, & Printing Items	MyNCBI: Saving searches Using MeSH subject headings EBM & Clinical Queries The Single Citation Matcher Getting More Help
Bonus Tip 11: National Library of Medicine: PubMed Basics

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