myncbi: pubmed your way

MyNCBI: PubMed your way

Marisa ConteClinical and Translational Science liaison, Health Sciences Libraries29 October 2008meese@umich.edu

What is it?

•MyNCBI is a personal account that customizes your research across all of NCBI’s databases

•Using MyNCBI to customize preferences will make your research more efficient

•MyNCBI can help you manage your research by storing your searches, citations and more

Outline of session

•MyNCBI for PubMed searches•Register for an account•Set preferences and filters•Save searches and collections•Create a bibliography•Find help

Register for MyNCBI

Registration page

Verifying login

Access your MyNCBI account

My NCBI homepage

Setting preferences

Setting preferences

Links display

Highlighting

Set PubMed filters

Set PubMed filters

Setting PubMed filters

Search results without filters

Search results with filters

Search results – Clinical trials

Save searches

Name your search

Tip:Select a descriptive name that will remind you of the search topic. Dates aren’t good names -you might not remember what you searched on a given day!

Email alert options

Save collections (articles)

Save collections

Tip:Select a descriptive name that will remind you of the collection’s contents. The default is the number of citations.

Manage collections

Bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliography

Find papers by author name

Add papers to bibliography

Organize bibliography

Create Bibliography by …

•Grant number▫Great for managing research associated

with specific NIH grant•PMID

▫The unique identifier assigned to every PubMed citation

•Journal•Date

For more information

•http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/about/

•http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helpmyncbi.chapter.MyNCBI