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Online Literature Sources for Evidence-Based Medicine

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Barbara Folb
Patricia Friedman


Searching MEDLINE on PubMed



When working through this tutorial, it is helpful to open PubMed in a separate browser window, and work through the examples given. A link is given on each section page in the green bar to the left of the screen that opens this window.

Table of Contents

Overview of PubMed

  • Creation of PubMed
  • Subjects, Databases Included
  • Literature Types Included
  • Record Content
  • Links to Genetic Resources
  • Limits of Full Text Linkage

Constructing a Simple Subject Search in PubMed

  • Formulating a Question
  • Entering a simple search
  • Details (how PubMed interprets a search statement)
  • Saving Selected Articles to the Clipboard
  • Viewing Search Results and Changing the View
  • Saving and Printing Results

Modifying a Search

  • Using Limits
  • Using Related Articles
  • Turning off Automatic Term Mapping
  • Phrase Searching
  • Using Truncation
  • Use of Field Tags

Creating a More Involved Search

  • Searching Specific Fields
  • Using Boolean Operators in the Search Box
  • Combining searches using History and Boolean Operators
  • MeSH and the MeSH Browser
  • Using Preview/Index

Using the Cubby to Save and Reuse Searches

Using PubMed Features

  • Citation Matcher
  • Journal Browser
  • Clinical Queries

Getting From PubMed to Full Text articles

  • LinkOut
  • Ordering Documents through Loansome Doc

Using the Books Link

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This page was updated on April 18, 2001.
Pages maintained by Barbara Folb folb@pitt.edu