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This is implied between items
entered in the PubMed Search
box…
What is AND?
Remember to ALWAYS capitalize the
Boolean operators, AND, OR, NOT!
A digital archive of biomedical
and life sciences journal literature
with free full text…
What is a PMC (PubMed
Central)?
The truncation symbol in
PubMed…
What is the asterisk?
While adjacency searching is not
available in PubMed, by putting an
asterisk after the second term—this
forces PubMed to treat the terms as a
phrase.
Describes an aspect of, or
qualifies a MeSH heading…
What is a Subheading?
Can be attached directly to a MeSH
heading, knee/ab or “floating”
knee AND ab [sh]
The number of MeSH headings
assigned to an article…
What are 10-15 headings?
MeSH terms automatically do
this to expand or increase your
retrieval…
What is explode?
To NOT explode the term, you can
select either
“Do Not Explode this term” from the
MeSH Database or
add [Mesh:NoExp] to the term.
In the listing of MeSH headings,
this symbol indicates the major
emphasis of an article…
What is the asterisk?
Tip: By looking at the MeSH headings,
you may get ideas to enhance or refine
your search!
Nasal bleedings, nose bleeds or
nosebleed are examples of these
for the MeSH heading,
Epistaxis…
What are Entry Terms?
Entry terms are often considered
synonyms.
The number in millions of
citations PubMed includes…
What is 22.5?
The option that one chooses in
order to export citations into a
reference management program...
What is the Citation manager?
The maximum amount of time
items are available in history on
the Advanced search page…
What is the 8 hours?
The history will be lost after 8 hours
of inactivity on PubMed or other
NCBI databases
In My NCBI, this records up to 6
months of searches and citations
that you have looked at…
What is Recent Activity?
Remember, the Recent Activity only
works if you are logged into your My
NCBI account!
Allows you to select languages,
age groups, subsets, publication
types…
What are Filters?
Useful for finding a particular
citation when you only have a
few details…
What is the Single Citation
Matcher?
This PubMed “sidebar” is
designed to locate additional
literature when a search retrieves
a small, but relevant list of
citations…
What is Related citations in
PubMed?
This feature shows you how
PubMed translates the terms you
put in the search box…
What is Search details?
Maximum number of
active
filters allowed for PubMed in
MY NCBI…
What is 15 active filters?
You can save a larger number, but
you can only display up to 15!
This feature lets you save
citations into a temporary list…
What is the Clipboard?
From the clipboard, you can then
print, email or save the citations as a
file. To save indefinitely, add to a
collection.
These brief tutorials usually take
only 3-5 minutes of your time to
learn about PubMed searching…
What are the Quick Tours?
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
Often overlooked, these link to
previously created PubMed
searches covering topics such as
Healthy People 2020, Cancer and
Health Literacy…
What are the Special Queries or
Topic-Specific Queries?