Introduction to PubMed

This class will cover the basics of literature searching utilizing the new PubMed interface. This class is intended for students, faculty, or staff unfamiliar with PubMed’s redesigned interface or those new to literature searching. Participants will learn to navigate the database, conduct basic literature searches, and strategies for improving searches.

PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally.

The PubMed database contains more than 37 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. 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 (PMC).

Available to the public online since 1996, PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).