My NCBI Quick Tours

The following are brief animated tutorials with audio on using My NCBI with PubMed. Click on the link to launch the tour.

Getting Started with My NCBI (approx. 5 min., revised April 2006)
How to register, sign in and out, change your password, and what to do if you've forgotten your password.
Saving Searches (approx. 4 min., revised June 2005)
How to save a PubMed search, to run later or to have results sent to your e-mail account.
- Changing Saved Searches (approx. 3 min., December 2007)
  How to change a search strategy saved in My NCBI.
Filters (approx. 7 min., revised July 2005)
How to create filters to group your search results.
- LinkOut Filters (approx. 6 min., revised September 2005)
  How to display LinkOut icons on citations, group your search results by LinkOut resources, and save a search for citations with links to a particular resource.
- Library LinkOut Filters (approx. 4 min., revised August 2006)
  How to display your library's LinkOut icons on citations, group resources available from your library, and save a search for articles that are available from your library.
Collections (approx. 3 min., revised April 2008)
How to save citations for future use in PubMed using My NCBI Collections.
- Editing Collections (approx. 4 min., revised April 2008)
  How to append to, delete items from, and rename collections of PubMed citations in My NCBI.
E-mail Alerts for Articles about Adverse Effects (approx. 4 min., May 2006)
How to create e-mail alerts for new articles about the adverse effects of a drug or class of drugs.
E-mail Alerts for Articles from Your Favorite Journals (approx. 4 min., revised April 2007)
How to create e-mail alerts for new articles from a set of journals.
Customizing PubMed's Display of Single Citations (approx. 2 min., August 2006)
How to select a display format for single citations using My NCBI User Preferences.

The above demos require the Macromedia Flash™ Player. They were created using Qarbon Viewlet Builder™.

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Last reviewed: 14 April 2008
Last updated: 14 April 2008
First published: 21 June 2005
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