For many clinical researchers, MEDLINE is probably the starting point for any article search. MEDLINE comprises over 5000 journals published worldwide and is the largest part of the PubMed database, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. PubMed also contains other life science journals.
As a result of U.S. National Institutes of Health Public Access policy aimed at increasing free access to articles, Pubmed Central (PMC) has been created as a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. It contains journals which submit articles regularly but also articles published by NIH-funded researchers in journals currently not on the PMC list. Full text is available in either HTML or PDF format.
A particularly useful tool available at PubMed is “MyNCBI” which allows searches to be saved and filtering options and automatic searches set up. It is located in the top right corner of the PubMed homepage and requires registration (free). MyNCBI offers various features but among the most useful are automatic searches and collections.
Automatic search: Once you enter keywords and search results are generated, you should save the search by clicking the “Save Search” option next to the search box. The search is saved to MyNCBI. Then, you can enable automated search in MyNCBI and the results will be emailed to you daily or once a week or month, according to the settings. The same keywords from the initial search will be used every time in the automated search.
Collection: Once you enter keywords and search results are generated, you should save the search by clicking the “Send to” option and selecting “Collections” from a drop down menu. A collection can be made public by selecting the appropriate option in MyNCBI, in which case a direct URL or HTML for web pages and blogs are generated.
You can access MyNCBI through PubMed homepage, but if no PubMed search is intended, then you can use a direct link to MyNCBI
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