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In Primo click on Databases:

Click on PubMed in the A-Z list:

This will take you to the resource:

You will need to have a NCBI (PubMed) account set up, if you wish to use features such as saving your search results and creating alerts.

  • Click on 'Log in':

  • Choose 'more log in options'

 

  • Search for our institution:

  • Choose Create a new NCBI account and sign in:

  • You will now be logged in:

 

If you wish to create an account with your home email instead, use the following steps: 

  • Click on the Log in button. 

  • Use one of the listed 3rd-party login options such as a Google account or personal Microsoft account. 

  • Follow the option to create a new NCBI account

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How do I search PubMed?

  1. Identify the key concepts for your search. 
  2. Enter the terms (or key concepts) in the search box.
  3. Press the Enter key or click Search.

Proximity Searching in Pubmed 

A proximity search looks for documents where two or more separately matching term occurrences are within a specified distance, where distance is the number of intermediate words or characters.

For example, a search could be used to find "red brick house", and match phrases such as "red house of brick" or "house made of red brick". By limiting the proximity, these phrases can be matched while avoiding documents where the words are scattered or spread across a page or in unrelated articles in an anthology.

Click the link below to use this interactive tutorial to get more out of PubMeds search features and find relevant results.

PubMed - Proximity Searching Tutorial

There are a number of useful features in PubMed to help you save and retrieve your searches and store your citations: 

  1. Save searches by Creating an Alert  
  2. Save citations temporarily using The Clipboard
  3. Save citations in My Bibliography 
  4. Save search results in the Collections feature

         

How do I export my references to Endnote Online?

  • Select the articles you want to export from your PubMed results
  • Click "Send to"
  • Select "Citation manager"
  • Click "Create File"
  • Log into EndNote Online
  • Click "Collect"
  • Click "Import References"
  • Click "Choose file"
  • Browse to and select your file of exported references (most likely in your Downloads folder)
  • Choose the Import Option of "PubMed (NLM)"
  • Choose which group (if any) you wish to add the references to, or create a new one

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