Library Guides: PubMed: More Search Tips: Using this guide

PubMed for UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley faculty, staff, students, and campus visitors should use the UC Berkeley-specific PubMed URL by accessing PubMed from links on library website pages (including this page).

To access full text, click the button appearing in every article record.

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Subjects: Molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, and other biomedical fields.
Sources: Biomedical and cell biology journals.
Note: Use the UCB-specific URL to see a customized version of PubMed that includes Get it at UC links.
For more information:
PubMed guide [UCB]
PubMed Help [NCBI]
PubMed Online Training videos, tutorials and webinars [NCBI]
Exporting citations [NCBI]
Saving searches [NCBI]
Setting up e-mail alerts [NCBI]
PubMed includes MEDLINE, PubMed Central (PMC), other biomedical and life science journals, and the NCBI Bookshelf. PubMed also provides links to other NCBI molecular biology resources, including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system.
Note: The link above goes to a specially configured version of PubMed for UC Berkeley users that will display the Get It at UC button for full text article access. To use the free public version, please click here.

PubMed search tips in a downloadable PDF format:

PubMed Quick Guide

Handout for Advanced PubMed workshop:

Advanced PubMed

PubMed Search Tips

This PubMed guide covers:

advanced searching:
- retrieving an article or articles from a specific journal
- finding review articles
- field tags
- advanced search builder
- search details and automatic term mapping
setting up RSS feeds and search alerts
exporting citations to a reference manager

For additional information on PubMed searching, including:

searching by topic using "AND" and "OR"
searching by author
viewing related articles
using filters
using Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms
finding an article from a citation
accessing full text
saving citations
using MyNCBI,

please see PubMed Tips & Tricks.

Help

For help, please contact:

Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library
bios@library.berkeley.edu

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