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Using Your Resources: PUBMED.GOV
I hope your week is going well.
I’m sure all of you who are reading this note have used the online periodical search engine “PubMed”. This free internet resource is run
by the National Library of Medicine as part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The web address is
www.pubmed.gov and their site is fairly user friendly for most
common tasks, such as finding an article to help with the paper you are writing or a topic you want to research for a case tomorrow.
Below I have compiled a brief review of some PubMed.gov USER TIPS for you to consider, which will
help you take even better advantage of the great resource that this site can be:
1.
Your hospital or affiliated university may have a web link or portal to PubMed which will grant you free
on-line access to the full text articles in the journals which they subscribe to. This will save countless hours of pacing through the library
to find journals and will give you 24 hour access to the articles anywhere you have internet access. If you don’t already have this,
ask you hospital librarian or senior residents.
2.
My NCBI: this link (which I bet you never stopped to look at) can be found in the upper right corner
of the PubMed homepage and is definitely worth your time. The link will take you to a free registration page for the National Center
for Biotechnology Information. Once you complete this page, you will find that you have additional access to many areas which can
serve as great reference sources.
3.
Automatic Emails: I know you probably already get too many emails, but this one is well worth it.
If you complete a search on PubMed and are signed-in under your MyNCBI account, you will see that “Save Search” will show up at
the top right of the screen. By clicking here, you will be able to register for an automatic email to be delivered to your inbox each time
a new article is published on your particular topic. You can determine the frequency of these emails and can of course turn them off also.
What a great way to keep up with your key clinical interests!
I hope you find these tips helpful. We certainly are in the age of ´information overload´, but using tools such as this can help you keep
up with things, while keeping your sanity…
Have a great week.
John Steinberg, DPM
Editor - PRESENT
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