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PubMed: Getting Started at Johns Hopkins Online
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's platform that provides access to over 35 million citations and abstracts of biomedical and life sciences literature. PubMed is a considered a core research database when searching the medical and health sciences literature.
This class will cover tips for optimizing PubMed while at Hopkins. Participants will learn:
- How to conduct basic and advanced searches, including PubMed's Clinical Queries tool to refine searches by clinical or disease-specific topics.
- How to access full text through Hopkins and how to seamlessly request items that are not readily available.
- How to set up a free MyNCBI account to create search alerts, save results, and access customizable features and tools.
- How to export results to citation management tools (e.g., RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero) and screening tools such as Covidence.
Audience: This class is beneficial for those new to Hopkins or anyone looking to improve their PubMed searches.
- Date:
- Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Audience:
- Beginner
- Categories:
- Library Basics Searching Skills
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Instructor
Emily Joseph