Duke Medical Center Library & Archives News Tag: pubmed
Library Winter Classes Are Here: Learn, Research, & Grow!
Posted On: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 12:47 by Brandi Tuttle
Are you looking to sharpen your research, writing, or clinical skills? We offer a variety of free online classes to help you get ahead. Taking a library class can significantly improve your research skills, helping you master advanced database searching and use tools that streamline your workflow. You'll also enhance your writing by efficiently managing citations and references, allowing you to focus more on your content. For those in clinical fields, these classes offer valuable insights into staying up-to-date with evidence-based resources, ultimately helping you locate the best clinical literature. Plus, our expert librarians are available to offer tailored support and guidance during each session.
Here’s a glimpse of the upcoming classes you can sign up for by topic…
… MORECategories: Classes
Tags: pubmed, endnote, copyright, scopus, systematic reviews
Register for an Upcoming Library Class
Posted On: Monday, August 26, 2024 - 10:36 by Brandi Tuttle
Ready to boost your research skills? The Medical Library offers a variety of online classes tailored to healthcare professionals, researchers, and students.
Sessions include:
- Searching Databases with Confidence: Master PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, or Scopus
- Conducting Systematic Reviews: Learn more about conducting systematic reviews or how to assess and extract data
- Reference Management Made Easy: Get started with EndNote or Zotero.
- Selecting Journals for Publication
- Tools for Researchers: Building Your Profile, Measuring your Impact
- Understanding Copyright
- Data Management: Sharing, Requirements, & Repositories
Visit our class…
MORECategories: Classes
Tags: pubmed, zotero, endnote, cinahl, scopus, systematic reviews
Advanced PubMed Searching
Posted On: Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 16:31 by Beverly Murphy
Want to search for relevant citations in the shortest amount of time? This class will show you how to effectively use MeSH, keywords, Boolean operators, filters, options with MyNCBI, & more! Wed. Aug. 14; 12-1p; ONLINE ONLY. This class is FREE but registration is required.
Categories: Classes
Tags: pubmed
Spring Classes!
Posted On: Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 14:57 by Brandi Tuttle
Ready to learn some new skills or approaches to your research? Check out our class schedule! We offer a variety of online classes related to database searching, systematic reviews, writing abstracts, publishing, citation management, research impact, and more. To find class details, dates, and registration information Click here.
Let us help you work smarter, not harder!
Questions? Ask a Librarian!
*Image credit: Online Learning by sripfoto from NounProject.com
Categories: Classes, Databases
Tags: publishing, pubmed, scopus, cinahl, endnote, zotero, abstracts, searching
PMIDs, DOIs, and PMCIDs Oh My!
Posted On: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 16:44 by Brandi Tuttle
Let’s take a moment to demystify these commonly used acronyms. They are all unique identifiers for an article (like a barcode), which can be used to easily link to or find an article online.
A PMID (such as 30256255) is a unique numerical identifier for an article in PubMed. You will notice every article included in PubMed has a PMID under the citation/abstract. You can search this number in PubMed or our E-Journals page to go straight to that particular article.
The International DOI Foundation assigns a unique alphanumeric string to…
MORECategories: Databases
Access "My NCBI" with your Duke NetID and password
Posted On: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 15:25 by Erica Brody
PubMed’s My NCBI tool allows you to set personal preferences, store both search strategies and citation collections, and create alerts by offering automatic e-mail updates and RSS Feeds of stored searches. Register for My NCBI by creating a User Name and Password. The preferred method of creating a My NCBI account is to register for it by clicking the "Register for an NCBI account" on the My NCBI sign in page and following the instructions.
Once you have a My NCBI account and you are logged in, you can click on your username at the top right of the NCBI screen to access your account settings. On this screen, you will see a box called “Linked accounts” where you can link your NCBI account to a “3rd party option” such as your Duke…
MORECategories: Explore Tools
Have you ever wanted to respond to a PubMed article?
Posted On: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 12:51 by Erica Brody
PubMed Commons lets you in on the research conversation. It is a system that enables researchers to share opinions and information about scientific publications. If you are listed on even one item indexed in PubMed, you are eligible to become a member of PubMed Commons. You will need a My NCBI account and an invitation to join PubMed Commons. Both are free of charge.
Getting an invitation to PubMed Commons:
- E-mail addresses of eligible authors have been collected from the NIH, the Wellcome Trust and authors' email addresses in PubMed and PubMed Central. …
Categories: Explore Tools
Tags: pubmed, for researchers, My NCBI, publications, research
Get More from PubMed
Posted On: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 15:57 by Brandi Tuttle
Have you ever wondered if you are getting all that you can from PubMed? Check out these tips and tricks to make sure you are finding all the research on your topic and getting free access to articles in the Duke collections.
1. Click on PubMed from the Medical Library’s Website to get full text available through Duke, or bookmark the link: https://mclibrary.duke.edu/pubmed
PubMed is liberally scattered throughout the Medical Library’s Website (on the main page under Quicklinks, Clinical Tools page, and more). Using one of these PubMed links…
MORECategories: Databases, Resource Updates
Tags: pubmed, research, literature search, My NCBI
Why YOU should have a My NCBI Account
Posted On: Monday, March 28, 2016 - 16:04 by Alex Mesa
NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) has 60+ databases, including PubMed, MeSH, Bookshelf and others you may be familiar with. In this blog post, we are looking at My NCBI a free, personalized account for YOU to use in conjunction with all of NCBI.
My NCBI allows you to save searches, save collections of citations, manage filters, and save site preferences for major NCBI databases. For anyone with NIH funding, it is best to log into My NCBI by clicking on NIH Login and using your eRA Commons credentials. For those without an eRA Commons account, we recommend logging in with your Duke…
MORECategories: Explore Tools
Tags: My NCBI, NIH Public Access Policy, NIH, pubmed
PubMed Searching Tips!
Posted On: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 11:39 by Alex Mesa
Here are a few tips to help improve your PubMed searching experience.
1. Single Citation Matcher
Use the Single Citation Matcher to find the correct citation with only a few pieces of information available. Best recommendation is to fill-in Journal title, year, and page number, but not the whole citation!
2. Use PubMed through the DUMC Library Website
Select either PUBMED (MEDLINE) under the Quicklinks or search PubMed at the top of the Web page. This ensures you will have access to full text provided by the…
Categories: Databases
Tags: pubmed