HSLS for SHRS

Access PubMed at the HSLS website under the "Resources" list. When you use PubMed to search, you are searching PubMed records, which include the title, abstract, subject headings, and other bibliographic information from citations.

In addition to a comprehensive help page, the National Library of Medicine offers a variety of ways to learn more about PubMed.

• PubMed Online Training Quick Tours are short (2-3 min) videos by topic.
• NLM's How PubMed Works On-Demand training modules are a comprehensive training resource for learning about PubMed and how to search.

PubMed allows you to narrow your results using the filters to the left side of the results.

Click "show additional filters" to explore other options.

You can find "Search details" in your search history by clicking on the > to the left of your search strategy.

If you click on "See more", you will see how PubMed applies Automatic Term Mapping to your search to find additional results. Keywords are matched to subjects, journals, and authors.

For more information about this page read How PubMed works: automatic term mapping.

Adding MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) to your search strategies in PubMed can focus your search and help you to find relevant articles more efficiently. View Medical Subject Headings in MEDLINE/PubMed: A Tutorial to learn more.

To search PubMed for articles by a specific author, go to "Advanced" search and drop down to "Author". Type in the author's last name and (optionally) first and middle initials. Click "add" and then "Search".

An NCBI account is a good place to store searches and references, and can work in conjunction with your citation manager. You can save citations you might not want to add to EndNote or F1000 Workspace, or create a collection and send it to your mentor.

You can create a free NCBI account for use with PubMed and NCBI databases.

1. We recommend that you use your personal (non-Pitt) email to create an account, so you can easily access your account after you graduate.
2. If you prefer to use your Pitt account, select the third party log in option and search for University of Pittsburgh. (Just remember you will lose the third party log in option when you leave Pitt.)
3. To create a new account, click Register for an NCBI account.
4. Create an NCBI account and then click continue.
5. To access your NCBI account, go to PubMed through the HSLS home page.On the top right hand corner of PubMed you'll see a link that says Sign in to NCBI.

Saving Searches

You can save searches in your NCBI account or set up email alerts and you'll get a message when new articles are published.

Filters

With an NCBI account you can add additional search filters to your search results page. The filters will be on the right side of your PubMed results page whenever you are logged into NCBI. You can select from preset filters or create custom ones. Unlike the standard left side filters, you can only use one NCBI filter at a time.

Collections

Collections are a great way to save your search results. You can make a collection public and share the link with your mentor or other colleagues.