1. PubMed Basics for Medical
Residents
Elisha Walker Staff Library
New York Downtown Hospital
Yvette L. Walton, Librarian
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2. Today’s Lesson
1) My NCBI registration process
2) How to save your search results
3) Sign-up for automatic email updates
regarding your topic
4) Highlighting your search terms
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3. My NCBI Registration
NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology
Information)
Why register?
• Save your search results
• Automatically receive email notifications of
your subject of interest
• Make search terms stand out on the page
while searching using “Highlighting”
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4. My NCBI Registration
1) Go to PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
2) Click My NCBI, top upper right side of
page
3) Click “Register for
account”
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5. My NCBI Registration
4) Provide user name, password and
additional information
5) Click register
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6. My NCBI - Save Your Search
Saving your search results in PubMed:
1) Near the top of page, under the search
box, click “Save Search”
2) Sign into My NCBI
3) In the “Name the Search” box, keep or
change the name of your search and click
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7. Retrieval-Save Your Search
• Retrieve saved search from the homepage
of your My NCBI
1) Sign into your My NCBI account
see the “Saved Searches” box
(Questions?)
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8. Getting Email Updates
• After you have clicked on “SAVE” your search,
the next page is:
“Saved Search Settings”
• This is where you create email updates
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9. Getting Email Updates (box)
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10. Getting Email Updates
Choose how you want to get email updates:
1) Once a month or week or everyday and pick
which day
2) Pick your format from the pull down
“Report format” box (summary, abstract,
etc.)
3) Select the number of items to be sent from
the “Number of items” pull down box (one,
five….200)
(Questions?)
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11. Highlighting Text
Why highlight search terms?
• When search terms are highlighted in
color it is easier to glance the results
• Choose from over 10 colors!
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12. Highlighting Text
1) Sign into your My NCBI, the home page
opens
2) Click on “NCBI Site Preferences” (upper
right hand side of page)
Preferences page opens
3) Under “Common Preferences” see
“Highlighting”
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13. Highlighting Text
4) Click the Highlighting link
5) Choose your color
6) Click “Save”
(Questions?)
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14. The End
• Questions?
• My contact information:
Yvette L. Walton
212-532-5229
Email: yvette.walton@dowtownhosptial.org
Please stop by the Library with further
questions
THANK YOU!
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