PubMed is a free database of over 21 million citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from Medline. It is hosted by the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health. The session objectives are to explain what PubMed is, how to navigate to it, how to conduct text searches and MeSH searches, use the single citation matcher, and answer questions. Users can access PubMed through their library homepage link or by going directly to www.pubmed.gov.

1. Introduction to
Allison Deluca, MLIS

2. Session Objectives
What is PubMed
Navigating to Pubmed
Text Search
What is MeSH
MeSH search
Single Citation Matcher
Questions

3. What is PubMed?
 PubMed is a free database comprised of 21
million citations
 These citations are taken from Medline, life
science journals and books
 PubMed is provided by the National
Library of Medicine and the National
Institutes of Health

4. Navigating to PubMed
Two ways
1. Go the your library homepage and
find the link for PubMed under
Databases
OR
2. Go to www.pubmed.gov