1. Pubmed

2. Outline
Background information
Pubmed features
Pubmed searching
Mendeley

3. Goals
Recognize different types of publications
Effectively search with Pubmed
Manage your search results

4. Background Information
MedlinePlus – Health Topics
Mayoclinic – Diseases and Conditions
Muscular dystrophy > Myotonic dystrophy

5. Pubmed Results List
Results List
Worksheet: Myotonic Dystrophy

6. Pubmed Features Worksheet: Pubmed Features Results page Record page
Format/Sort by/Per page
Citation information
Filters (left)
Right hand side
Send to:
Record page
Author name/information
PMID/DOI
MeSH
MeSH
Terms in a record
database
MyNCBI
Collections
Saved Searches
Updates
Filters
Home Page
Single Citation Matcher
First/Last author
Clinical Queries

7. Pubmed Searching Searching Keywords Synonyms
Boolean operators
AND (for combining different concepts, finds fewer results)
OR (for combining synonyms, finds more results)
Phrase searching (“myotonic dystrophy”)
Truncation (transcript*)
Synonyms
Myotonic Dystrophy Protein Kinase, DM Kinase, MDGP Kinase
Controlled vocabulary (MeSH)
Similar articles
Author search
Citation tracking
Review articles

8. Worksheet: Pubmed Searching
Search terms
Disease name
Biochemistry connection
Use background information to find genes/proteins
Look through titles/abstracts
Look at Related Information from a relevant paper
Find the relevant MeSH term and use subheadings
Worksheet: Pubmed Searching

9. Mendeley Mendeley Adding an entry Add file from computer Manual entry
Drag and drop PDF
Web importer
Literature Search in Mendeley
Import from other manager
Publisher button (eg/PLOS)

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