Welcome!

Welcome to the "PubMed Tutorial", the Web-based learning program that will show you how to search PubMed®, the National Library of Medicine (NLM®) journal literature search system.

UPDATE IN PROGRESS

Please note that this tutorial is being updated to reflect the recent redesign of PubMed. Some screens and demos may be out of date at this time (sections of Managing the Results: Collections and subsequent pages as of November 6). Completion is expected towards the end of November. To see a list of recent PubMed changes, go to PubMed's New/Noteworthy.

For brief tutorials on specific topics, see also the PubMed Quick Tours

Goals and Objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand PubMed's scope and content.
• Understand how the MeSH vocabulary is used to describe and retrieve citations.
• Build a search using MeSH and PubMed search tools (Details, Limits, History, etc.)
• Manage your results using display, sort, the Clipboard, save, print, e-mail and order features and My NCBI filters.
• Save your search strategies.
• Link to full-text articles and other resources.
• Use special queries and other PubMed/NCBI tools.

Click Next to learn how to navigate through the modules of the PubMed Tutorial or click on PubMed Overview on the sidebar menu to jump right into learning about PubMed.

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