This tutorial has been designed to assist you in learning how to efficiently locate biomedical journal literature in MEDLINE, using PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's interface to MEDLINE. PubMed provides freely-available access to MEDLINE, the premier biomedical literature database of over 12 million journal citations in over 4000 journals, dating back to 1953.

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About the Tutorial

The tutorial consists of 5 modules:

• Basic Searching: Find out how to conduct a basic search of the MEDLINE literature. Learn how to apply Limits and how to perform Author and Journal title searching.
• Search Results: Learn how to work with results in PubMed - saving, printing, emailing, and downloading.
• Advanced Searching: Use the MeSH Database to create more structured and precise searches.
• Evidence Based Medicine in PubMed: Discover how the Clinical Queries and Systematic Reviews features can refine your searches to clinically-relevant EBM literature.
• Special Features: Explore additional tools such as the Journals Database and how to verify citations using Single Citation Matcher.