PubMed

Hands On Lab
Time

September
2008

Select two or three of the
following exercises:

1. Register for My NCBI
(page 2)

· Create an automatic e-mail
update

· Change the default filter
settings

· Turn on highlighting

2. Create a Web Link to
PubMed (page 4)

3. Search PubMed’s
Clinical Queries using your handheld (page 5)

4. Create
a PubMed RSS feed (page 5)

5. Create a Collection (page 6)

6. Try the PMC ID Converter (page 6)

1. Register for My NCBI

Step
1. Click Register
on My NCBI icon -upper right of the screen.

Step 2. Enter a User
Name, Password of your choice, a
security answer, the 5 characters from the image, and your e-mail address.

Step 3. Write your Username,
password, security word onto this page and save it for future reference.

Enter your e-mail address so you can have updates e-mailed to you.

Step 5. Click on the Register button.

a) Create an automatic e-mail update

Step 1. Enter a search that you would like to save,
or use the one shown below and click Go.

Step 2. After you run the search, click Save Search.

Step 3. Select Yes
to receive e-mail updates.

Step 4. Change the e-mail update selections to your
liking and click OK.

Step 5. An
initial confirmation e-mail message
will be sent to confirm your participation. You must do the confirm step in the message before My
NCBI will automatically send updates.

b) Change the default filter settings

Step 1. Run a search in PubMed and click the tool icon to the right of the Review filter tab to link
to the Quick Pick list of commonly-requested filters.

Step 2. Click the boxes to
select or deselect filters. To view additional options click:

a) Browse to browse filters by category.
Subject-related filters are under Properties.

b) Search to search the
filter names and descriptions. Use this
to find your library’s name. Let Annette
know if you are doing this.

c) My Selections to display/delete the active
filters and icon settings.

**Your Filter selections
are in effect only when you are signed
in to My NCBI.**

b) Turn on Highlighting (in effect when you are signed into My NCBI)

Step 1. Go into My NCBI.

Step 2. Click User
Preferences on the sidebar.

Step 3. Select a highlighting color and Click OK.

For additional information about My NCBI,
click Help
on the sidebar.

2. Create a Web Link to PubMed

Create
a URL link that runs a search in PubMed. You may paste the link onto your personal web page.

Pick one or both to create
now:

A. Author Link. Create a URL link that will run a PubMed
search for articles authored by you or someone else.

Copy
URL (below) and run in PubMed, then replace sinatra+f with the
last name, first and (optional) second initial (sinatra+fa):

//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=sinatra+f&report=abstractplus

B. Publications from my institution. Create a URL link that will run a PubMed
search for the affiliation of the first author.

Copy
URL (below) and run in PubMed, then replace fox[ad]+AND+chase[ad] with significant
words from the name of your affiliation.

//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=fox[ad]+AND+chase[ad]&report=abstractplus

Note: Complete information about creating links can
be found in PubMed’s Overview under Creating a
Web Link to PubMed.

Information on how to Add PubMed to
Your Web Site is also available.

Search PubMed’s Clinical Queries using your
wireless handheld

Step 1. Ask Woods Hole staff for help connecting to
the MBL WiFi node.

Step 2. Go to
the mobile Web site: www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile.

(Also available as “NLM Mobile” on PubMed’s blue sidebar.)

Step 3. Click
“PubMed for handhelds Web site,”
then click MEDLINE/PubMed.

Step 4. Click on PICO search.

Step 5. Enter as follows:

Medical condition: alcoholic hepatitis

Intervention: pentoxifylline

Compare to: steroids

Click on “Submit.”

4. Create a PubMed Web
(RSS) feed

Step 1. In PubMed, enter patient compliance
adult asthma in the search box and click Go.

Step 2. Choose RSS
Feed from the Send to menu.

Step 3. You may edit the name of the feed and limit
the number of items to be displayed, click Create
Feed.

Step 4. Open the RSSOwl
reader software.

Step 5. Drag the icon
to the Address box in RSSOwl.

Step 6.
Select Add to Favorites under the Favorites menu.

Ask for assistance if you need it!

Create
a collection (must be
registered for My NCBI)

Step 1. Enter a subject search or
an author search. Use Limits if
appropriate.

Step 2. Select
one or more citations that are of interest and then use Send to Collections.

Step 3. On
the “Save Collection” pop-up window, select Create new collection and change
name from # items to something meaningful.

Step 4. Click on a My NCBI link to access your
Collection or Saved Searches.

6. Try the PMC ID Converter

Step 1 Do a PubMed search for articles by yourself, articles
by someone at your institution, articles with your institution in the Address
field. You can use the Advanced Search
screen.

Step 2 Review the retrieval and use “Send to” to put
all or some of the citations in the Clipboard.

Step 3 Go to the Converter: //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pmctopmid
and click on:

“Get IDs from PubMed Clipboard.”

Step 4 Click on “Convert.”

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