About PubMed

PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature and contains more than 37 million citations and abstracts.  It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central. 

Medline v PubMed v PMC

MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different? (nih.gov)

Tips for local Ascension Providence users:

1. If you use the PubMed links on the Ascension Providence Library home page, you'll tap into our fulltext offerings.  Look for the Ascension icon
2. If we don't have online access to a particular article, you'll be able to order it easily through PubMed by clicking on the Ascension icon. 

Training & Tutorials

PubMed

Quick Tour Videos

• What is in PubMed? Learn what you can find in PubMed, and how it got there. (4 min.)
• PubMed: Find Articles by Author (2 min. video)
• PubMed: Find Articles by Journal (2 min. video)
• PubMed: Find Articles from a Citation (2 min. video)
• PubMed Citation Formatting Made Easy
• PubMed: Find Articles on a Topic (2 min. video)
• PubMed: Find the latest Treatments for a Disease or Disorder (2 min. video)
• PubMed: Get the full text for an Article (2 min. video)
• PubMed: Save Searches and Set email Alerts (2 min. video)
• PubMed Subject Search: How it Works (2 min. video)
  
• PubMed: Order Articles from Your Library through PubMed
• PubMed Proximity Searching (Brief Video)
• PubMed: Proximity Searching (Article)

See more PubMed Training & Tutorials.

FAQs and Handouts

Training Sessions and Tutorials

• PubMed Online Training
• How PubMed Works

  How PubMed Works is a series of four 90-minute classes presented via WebEx. The individual classes are:
  
  1) How PubMed Works: Introduction
  2) How PubMed Works: Selection
  3) How PubMed Works: MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
  4) How PubMed Works: ATM (Automatic Term Mapping)

   
• Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice (30 min. Tutorial)

  Replaces The PubMed for Nurses tutorial.

About MyNCBI

My NCBI is a tool that retains user information and database preferences to provide customized services for many NCBI databases. It allows you to save searches, select display formats, filtering options, and set up automatic searches that are sent by e-mail.  This account also allows you to add the link to Ascension Providence journals within PubMed whenever you are signed in.

Creating a MyNCBI Account

To create a MyNCBI account:

• go to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/account/register/
• Select a third-party login option (Microsoft, Orcid, Google, NIH Account, etc.) to sign up for an account
• Give permission to your third-party login option of choice

To add the Ascension Providence button to PubMed:

• If you have already created a MyNCBI account, click on MyNCBI and then go to the NCBI Site Preferences.
  
• Under PubMed Preferences, click on Outside Tool.
• An alphabetical list will appear. Scroll down then select Ascension Providence check box.
• Click on the Save button.

Logging into MyNCBI

• From PubMed, click on the Log in link in the upper right corner of the window.