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Dental Hygiene: PubMed

What is PubMed?

PubMed (Public MEDLINE) is a free resource developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine® (NLM).  PubMed gives free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.  MEDLINE is NLM's bibliographic database of citations and abstracts, currently from approximately 5,400 biomedical journals published in the United States and worldwide. Coverage extends back to 1946 with over 23 million citations.

PubMed Shortcuts

Enter a PMID
If you have a PubMed PMID (PubMed ID) or PMCID (PubMed Central ID) just enter that number in the PubMed search box.

Single Citation Matcher
Use this quick starter if you have some or all of the citation information.

Use Related Articles
Related articles can be accessed via a link under every citation on the search results page, or in the right-hand column on an article abstract page. Looking up related articles is a quick way to find other results that are very similar to ones you already have.

PubMed Advanced Search Builder

PubMed: Using the Advanced Search

In this 3 minute video, learn to use PubMed's Advanced Search features to refine your search with the example of a publication date range; and find journal and author names using the autocomplete feature.

PubMed: Using the Advanced Search

LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad automatically provides instant links to full text content for article subscribed to by your library - or open access alternatives - as you do research on the web and come across literature.

How to use LibKey Nomad:

  • Download the LibKey Nomad browser extension (compatible with Chrome, Edge, Brave and Vivaldi)
  • Upon installation you will be prompted to choose an organization - select Georgia State University
  • As you visit sites with scholarly resources (PubMed, Google Scholar, publisher pages, Wikipedia, etc.) LibKey Nomad will display a button if it recognizes that GSU has full text access to the article.
  • If we don't have full text access, LibKey Nomad will display a  button, which prompts you to request the item through ILL.

Searching PubMed

The Basics: Simple Searching & Viewing Results

For a basic keyword search, type the word or words you are looking for into the search box, and click Search. PubMed will suggest phrases that complete your entry or that are related to the words you're entering.  The next page will show your search results.

Setting Filters (aka Limits)

Use the filters on the left sidebar to narrow down your results by specifying different categories such as language, type of article, age, gender, etc.  

Changing the Display Settings

Click the Display Options button at the top right side of the page to change the format option for each citation (Summary, Abstract, PubMed or PMID) the sort order and the number of results per page. Use the Show snippets check box to turn text snippets off/on in the results page.

Use My NCBI to permanently set your display settings via your personal log-in.  Learn more about My NCBI here.

Look for the icon or another "free full text" icon in the top right of the abstract page, and click the icon to access the full article text.

Saving, Printing, and Emailing Search Results

At the top of the search results page you will see a series of buttons labeled Save, Email and Send to.

Use the Save option to save a text file of your results.

Use the Email option to email results.

Use the Send to option to save results to:

  • Clipboard- a temporary (8 hours) place to store articles of interest. When you have items in your clipboard a "clipboard" link will appear under the search box. Click that link to access items on your clipboard.
  • My Bibliography - a place to store and organize citations to your publications. 
  • Collections - save references of interest permanently to your My NCBI Account. (You must create a FREE My NCBI account to use this option. 
  • Citation Manager- use this option to export citations for use with citation management tools (EndNote, Zotero).

 

To print your citations, select Print from your Internet's browser window. 

To remove an item from the Clipboard, click the Remove from Clipboard link below the citation.