Table of Contents

• About the tutorial & PubMed
• Basic searching
  by author
• Subject searching
• Viewing results &
  finding full text
• Using the search
  history
• Managing your
  search results

BioMolecular Chemistry 704

PubMed exercise

This is a brief tutorial, designed to give you an introductory lesson in searching PubMed and interpreting the results of your search. This tutorial was designed to accompany Pre-Problem-Based Exercise #1 for the UW Medical School course BioMolecular Chemistry 704.

The tutorial comprises six brief sections, listed in the Table of Contents box on the left of each screen. When you finish one page, proceed to the next section.

If you wish to follow along with this exercise in another window, click here.

If you have any questions at all during this exercise, please feel free to contact the Ebling Library, at 262-2020, or by email.

Other useful links: National Library of Medicine's comprehensive PubMed tutorial: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/.

1. About PubMed

PubMed provides access to all of MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine’s database of biomedical journal literature, back to the 1950s. The database:

• • Contains records of journal articles only—no books, videos, etc.
  • Currently indexes approximately 4,600 current journals
  • Represents journals in over 40 languages, from 70 countries
  • Adds new entries on a daily basis.
  • Is free to anyone, anywhere in the world, by going to http://www.PubMed.gov.

IMPORTANT: In order to get access to more than 2500 biomedical full-text journals that UW subscribes to, you must follow a link provided by the UW libraries. The easiest path is to go to http://ebling.library.wisc.edu, then follow the PubMed link in the Major Resources box on the left-hand side of the page.

Proceed to Section 2: Basic Searching by Author