PubMed Tutorial

Welcome to the "PubMed Tutorial", the Web-based learning program that will show you how to search PubMed®, the National Library of Medicine (NLM®) journal literature search system.

This tutorial was updated in May 2010, and reflects PubMed changes through April 16, 2010. To see a list of recent PubMed changes, go to PubMed's New/Noteworthy.

Goals and Objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

  • Understand PubMed's scope and content.
  • Understand how the MeSH vocabulary is used to describe and retrieve citations.
  • Build a search using MeSH and PubMed search tools
  • Manage your results using display, sort, the Clipboard, save, print, e-mail and order features and My NCBI filters.
  • Save your search strategies.
  • Link to full-text articles and other resources.
  • Use special queries and other PubMed/NCBI tools.