BIBC 120: Nutrition: Use PubMed Effectively - connect, search, save results

Pubmed is a key database for health & life science topics.  It is a free database for anyone to use which means it is more difficult to directly connect you to our subscribed resources.  Thus, we have a special link to PubMed and once you have it, you can bookmark or favorite it in your browser for easier access.

PubMed Class Handouts  -- always a good starting point.

Tutorials from the the National Library of Medicine

Set up Email Alerts

Though PubMed's MyNCBI account, you can turn any topic into an automatic email notification.  You can set it up for daily, weekly, or monthly and chose the day of the week that you want the message to arrive. 

• To get started, login to your MyNCBI account (or create one if you don't have one) using the link in the top right corner of PubMed.  
  
• Run the search for your topic of choice.
• Under the search box, look for the link "Create Alert."
  
• The things to change or adjust are:
  • Give your search a meaningful name
  • Decide if you want to save the search to re-run later (choose "No") or if you want to continue setting it up for email alerts (choose "Yes").
  • Schedule - how frequent, which day of the week.
  • Format - change to Abstract so you get more info in your email message about the articles.
  • Number of items - increase it because the default is very low.
• Click the Save button.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks like.