PubMed at the UW   Tags: medline, pub med, pubmed  

PubMed, developed by the National Library of Medicine, provides access to bibliographic citations to biomedical journal articles, including MEDLINE , and to additional life sciences journals. MEDLINE is NLM's database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.  MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from over 5400 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries and dating back to the 1940's. Updated 5 times/week.

Access PubMed from the Health Sciences Library or UW Libraries web sites to see icons showing full-text availability.

Use the tabs near the top of the page to navigate through the pages of this guide.  Tabs are available for:

• Run a Search provides step-by-step instructions for running a search in PubMed, including inputting search terms, using filters to limit your search by language, ages, and other common topics, viewing your results, printing/saving/emailing your citations, and how to find the full-text of articles and order copies if needed.
  
  
• Find Full Text lists steps to follow to get a complete journal article from a PubMed citation.
  
  
• Refine Searchesprovides information on improving your search results by:
  • Broadening a search using MeSH and Related Articles
  • Narrowing a search using * field tags *History and the Advanced Search window and *limiting retrieval to research-based citations.  Also see hints for dealing with too many or too few citations.
    
    
• Find Research Articles details two methods to limit your search results.
  
  
• MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), the list of keywords or descriptors that describe articles in MEDLINE.  Use MeSH to identify search terms and to focus a search.
  
  
• Export Citations to Citation Managers such as EndNote, EndNote Web, and RefWorks.
  
  
• FAQ

For comprehensive PubMed help see PubMed Help or click the Help link at the top right of PubMed pages.

• Ask Us!

• Contact a Librarian

Below is a complete list of the videos mentioned in this guide.  To watch the instructional video clips (), the Adobe Flash Player is required.

• Basic search (1:22)
• Clinical Queries (3:49)
• Clipboard (2:31)
• Documenting your search strategy (0:35)
• My Bibliography(NLM:3 min.)
• Emailing (0:53)
• History (3:52)
• Filters (3:56)
  
• MeSH Database
• Searching with Mesh (NLM:3 min.)
• Combining MeSH terms (NLM:4 min.)
• Subheadings (NLM:5 min.)
• Printing (1:08)
• Related articles (1:18)
• Saving (1:09)
• Single Citation Matcher (1:22)
• Viewing Results (3:48)
• Advanced Search Builder (NLM:3 min.)