PubMed for Librarians webinar series

Join the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Training Office (NTO) for the PubMed® for Librarians series. Details and links to registration are below. All times are Eastern. PubMed® for Librarians: Introduction Thursday, January 19, 2017 1 PM – 2:30 ET https://nnlm.gov/class/pml_intro/369 Learn about the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE, how to run a basic PubMed search, assess your search results, analyze search details, customize PubMed with My NCBI, search for a known citation; plus, brief introductions to MeSH, automatic term mapping, search tags and subheadings. PubMed® for Librarians: MeSH January 25, 2017 1 PM – 2:30 ET https://nnlm.gov/class/pml_mesh/370 Learn about the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) database. We will talk about the 4 different types of MeSH terms and how searchers can benefit from using MeSH to build a search. We will investigate the structure of the MeSH database and look at the components of a MeSH record. PubMed® for Librarians: Automatic Term Mapping February 1, 2017 1 PM – 2:30 ET https://nnlm.gov/class/pml_atm/371 Learn about how PubMed uses Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) to map your keyword searches to the controlled vocabulary of the MeSH database. Learn how ATM helps you effectively search with keywords. We will also look at the explosion feature, what is and isn’t included in Search Details and we will explore how to search for phrases in PubMed. PubMed® for Librari...
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