Owens Library Basic Guide to PubMed

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The National Library of Medicine provides indexing and abstracting of periodical literature in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care system, and preclinical sciences. Over 4600 U.S. biomedical journals and 70 journals from foreign countries are indexed in this database, with over 11 million citations from the mid-1960's to the president. Most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.

Go to the library homepage at: http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library
Click Search for Articles
In the "Links to Databases" box, scroll down and click on PubMed
Enter term(s) in the search entry box
Click Go

SAMPLE PubMed RECORD:

Zimmerman RK, Schlesselman JJ, Mieczkowski TA, Medsger AR, Raymund M.
Physician concerns about vaccine adverse effects and potential litigation. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998 Jan; 152(1): 12-19.
PMID: 9452702; UI: 98114792.

TIPS:

To view the article summary, click on the author(s) name.
To locate the full title of the abbreviated periodical title Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, click on Journals Database in the blue column; type the journal abbreviation in lowercase
To mark selected articles, click on the square box to the left of the article number and click on display.
To print results, click on the browser's print icon.

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