Academic Research: Self-Guided Learning

PubMed Subject search on how automatic term mapping and explosion enhance your PubMed search.

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PubMed: Using the Advanced Search Builder tutorial guides searcher on conducting a search on a publication data range, journals, and authors using Advanced Search Builder in PubMed. 

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Learn how to conduct the target search in PubMed using MeSH to Build a Better PubMed Query tutorial guide. 

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• MeSH Tutorial 

• PubMed User Guide Tutorial

• Tutorial on general search (boolean operators, other) 

• PubMed Tutorial for author, topics, article search 
• PubMed search using a PubMed Identifier (PMID)
  Enter the article ID with or without the search field tag [pmid]. To search for several PMID's - enter each number in the PubMed search box separating numbers by a space. The search is conducted using OR for entered numbers. 
• PubMed search using a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) 
  • Select Advanced Search Builder in PubMed. Select the search term - ID Location - from Advanced Search Builder. Enter DOI number without DOI term into the search box. After adding the term to the query box, conduct a search. 
  • Select Basic Search  in PubMed. Enter the DOI number into the PubMed search basic search box and conduct the search. 

• Search for DOI Name - type the DOI number into the text box to identify the DOI name. 

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