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This page contains information about PubMed and how to search it. Unless otherwise noted, these resources are provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Access to PubMed for Wright State students, faculty, and staff

What is MEDLINE?

MEDLINE is a comprehensive medical and health science literature database from the National Library of Medicine, including access to some references from nursing journals.  MEDLINE is accessible from a variety of interfaces, including PubMed, a free public interface from the National Library of Medicine.

Note: Not everything in PubMed meets MEDLINE's indexing criteria or content scope, as indicated in the "How are they different?" link above.  If you want to search only the MEDLINE subset of PubMed, combine AND medline[sb] with your other search elements. 

What is MeSH and how does it help me search?

NLM PubMed Tutorial: What is in PubMed? (approximate length: 3:00)

What is in PubMed?

Tutorial credit: U.S. National Library of Medicine

NLM PubMed Interactive Tutorial: Find Articles on a Topic (approximate length: 1:00)

Find Articles on a Topic: Interactive Tutorial

Tutorial credit: U.S. National Library of Medicine

NLM PubMed Interactive Tutorial: PubMed Subject Search: How It Works (approximate length: 4:00)

PubMed Subject Search: How It Works

Tutorial credit: U.S. National Library of Medicine

NLM PubMed Interactive Tutorial: Find the Latest Treatments for a Disease or Disorder [Clinical Queries] (approximate length: 2:00)

[video title slide] PubMed: Find the Latest Treatments for a Disease or Disorder

Tutorial Credit: U.S. National Library of Medicine

NLM PubMed Interactive Tutorial: Save Searches and Set E-mail Alerts (approximate length: 2:00)

[PubMed Tutorial title] Save searches and set e-mail alerts

Tutorial Credit: U.S. National Library of Medicine

How do I get an article if Wright State does not have it?

When viewing your search results in PubMed, you will see a Find It button on the abstract page or full view of the citation.  This link will allow you to determine whether Wright State has full text subscription access or if you have to request the article using Interlibrary loan. 

Often, in addition to the gold Find It icon, there will be publisher icons.  Wright State may or may not have subscription access to those publishers, whereas the Find It link provides Wright State-specific information.

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Unless otherwise indicated, the resources on this page are provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.  These and other resources can be found on the Trainer's Toolkit page linked below.