Introduction to PubMed slides

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