PubMed at the UW   Tags: medline, pub med  

PubMed provides access to bibliographic citations to biomedical journal articles, including MEDLINE back to the 1940's, and to additional life sciences journals. Updated 5 times/week.   Access PubMed from the Health Sciences Library or UW Libraries web sites to see icons showing full-text availability.

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• Run a Search provides step-by-step instructions for running a search in PubMed, including inputting search terms, limiting 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 Searches provides 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.
  
  
• MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), the list of keywords or descriptors that describe articles in Index Medicus and MEDLINE.  Use MeSH to identify search terms and to focus a search.
  
  
• Export Citations to Citation Managers such as EndNote, EndNote Web, and RefWorks.
  
  
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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)
• Connecting to Full Text (3:38)
• Documenting your search strategy (0:35)
• Downloading Results for Use in Reference Management Software (NLM:2 min.)
• Emailing (0:53)
• History (4:27)
• Introduction (2:55)
• Limits (5:33)
• MeSH Database
• Searching with Mesh (NLM:3 min.)
• Combining MeSH terms (NLM:4 min.)
• Subheadings (NLM:5 min.)
• Ordering articles (2:17)
• Printing (1:08)
• Related articles (1:18)
• Saving (0:50)
• Single Citation Matcher (1:22)
• Viewing Results (4:05)