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PubMed® for Librarians

For more information, contact: Rebecca Brown, rebecca.brown@utah.edu.

Click on the title below to see how to join the upcoming training session!

PubMed for Librarians is made up of six, 90-minute, live webinars. Each session is presented via WebEx and recorded for archival access. Each session is meant to be a stand-alone module. Attendees can determine how many sessions and in what sequence they attend.

For more information on the entire webinar series: https://nnlm.gov/classes/pml

Learning Objectives
Session 1:  Introduction to PubMed.  By the end of the session students will be able to:

  • Explain about the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE

  • Run a PubMed search and assess search retrieval

  • Analyze search details

  • Customize with My NCBI

  • Discover and employ three ways to search for a known citation

  • Search using the Clinical Queries search tool

Session 2:  MeSH. By the end of this session students will be able to:

  • Recognize the 4 different types of MeSH terms and how searchers can benefit from using MesH to build a search

  • Explain the structure of the MeSH database and the components of a MeSH record.

Session 3:  Automatic Term Mapping (ATM).  By the end of this session students will be able to:

  • Describe the process of Automatic Term Mapping (ATM)

  • Explain why searching with keywords in PubMed can be an effective approach to searching

  • Analyze search results and describe what is and is not included in Search Details

  • Describe how to determine if a phrase is Indexed in PubMed

Session 4:  Building and Refining Your Search.  By the end of this session students will be able to:

  • Use the tools and features built into PubMed that are designed to help you search more effectively, including the Filters Sidebar and topic-specific subsets.

  • Build searches using History and the Index.

  • Explain MeSH heading and Subheading Coordination

Session 5: Customization with My NCBI.  By the end of this session students will be able to:

  • Describe the advantages of creating a My NCBI account

  • Manage and manipulate their My NCBI page content using the features and options available in My NCBI

  • Locate and apply available filters on the filter sidebar

  • Select and set up right-side filters using your My NCBI account

  • Create a custom filter

Session 6: Using Evidence-Based Search Features. By the end of this session students will be able to:

  • Locate MeSH vocabulary and PubMed features that facilitate finding evidence from research

  • Define evidence in the context of literature searching for clinical medicine

  • Explain how study designs are indexed in MeSH

  • Locate and use PubMed Clinical Queries

  • Locate and use NICHSR Comparative Effectiveness Research Query page

  • Explain what is included in PubMed Health

  • Customize My NCBI filters to locate specific publication types

 

Agenda 
Each agenda session is includes an explanation of the topic followed by a demonstration of the skill and hands-on exercises.

PubMed for Librarians: Introduction to PubMed - 90 minutes – 1.5 CE
PubMed versus MEDLINE – differentiation 
How to conduct a simple search
Assess the search results
Analyze Search Details
Customization using My NCBI
Search for a known citation – author, title, journal

PubMed for Librarians: MeSH – 90 minutes – 1.5 CE
MeSH database 
Controlled vocabulary
Four types of MeSH terms
The MeSH Record: Entry terms, date introduced, previous indexing, explosion

PubMed for Librarians: Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) – 90 minutes – 1.5 CE

ATM Defined

3 Translation Tables

Subject Searching

Author Searching

Journal Searching

Search Details

How terms are processed

Phrase searching


PubMed for Librarians: Building and Refining Your Search – 90 minutes – 1.5 CE 

Narrowing your search using filters sidebar

Applying multiple filters
Topic specific filters
History
Coordinating search terms

PubMed for Librarians: Customization - My NCBI - 90 minutes – 1.5 CE

Summarize the advantages of using PubMed when signed into My NCBI
Access My NCBI
Customize PubMed display with My NCBI
Save a search 
Set up an automatic email alert for a saved search
Create collections

Make a collection public

Setup Shared Settings
My NCBI Filters
Create a custom filter

PubMed for Librarians: Using Evidence-Based Search Features - 90 minutes - 1.5 CE

Explore MeSH vocabulary and PubMed features that facilitate finding evidence from research
Define “evidence” in the context of literature searching for clinical medicine
Explain how study design is indexed in MeSH
Explore PubMed Clinical Queries
Explore NICHSR Comparative Effectiveness Research Query page
Explore PubMed Health
Customize My NCBI Filters to locate specific publication types

 

Facility Requirements  
This is an online class. Technical requirements include: Internet connection and the ability to use WebEx.

MLA CE Credits: 9 total (1.5/segment)