Slide 1: MyNCBI: PubMed your way
Marisa Conte Clinical and Translational Science liaison, Health Sciences Libraries 29 October 2008 meese@umich.edu
Slide 2: What is it?
• MyNCBI is a personal account that customizes your research across all of NCBI’s databases • Using MyNCBI to customize preferences will make your research more efficient • MyNCBI can help you manage your research by storing your searches, citations and more
Slide 3: Outline of session
• • • • • • MyNCBI for PubMed searches Register for an account Set preferences and filters Save searches and collections Create a bibliography Find help
Slide 4: Register for MyNCBI
Slide 5: Registration page
Slide 6: Verifying login
Slide 7: Access your MyNCBI account
Slide 8: My NCBI homepage
Slide 9: Setting preferences
Slide 10: Setting preferences
Slide 11: Links display
Slide 12: Highlighting
Slide 13: Set PubMed filters
Slide 14: Set PubMed filters
Slide 15: Setting PubMed filters
Slide 16: Search results without filters
Slide 17: Search results with filters
Slide 18: Search results – Clinical trials
Slide 19: Save searches
Slide 20: Name your search
Tip: Select a descriptive name that will remind you of the search topic. Dates aren’t good names -you might not remember what you searched on a given day!
Slide 21: Email alert options
Slide 22: Save collections (articles)
Slide 23: Save collections
Tip: Select a descriptive name that will remind you of the collection’s contents. The default is the number of citations.
Slide 24: Manage collections
Slide 25: Bibliography
Slide 26: Bibliography
Slide 27: Bibliography
Slide 28: Bibliography
Slide 29: Find papers by author name
Slide 30: Add papers to bibliography
Slide 31: Organize bibliography
Slide 32: Create Bibliography by …
• Grant number
▫ Great for managing research associated with specific NIH grant
• PMID
▫ The unique identifier assigned to every PubMed citation
• Journal • Date
Slide 33: For more information
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/abo ut/ • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi? rid=helpmyncbi.chapter.MyNCBI
