PubMed® for Librarians

Introduction to PubMed (June 3, 2013)

View the recording to learn about the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE, how to run a PubMed search, assess your search retrieval, analyze search details, customize with My NCBI, discover and employ three ways to search for a known citation and use the Clinical Queries search tool.
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MeSH (June 5, 2013)

Watch the recording to learn about the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) database. We talk about the 4 different types of MeSH terms and how searchers can benefit from using MesH to build a search. We investigate the structure of the MeSH database and we look at the components of a MeSH record.

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Customization – My NCBI (June 14, 2013)

This session covers the advantages of creating a My NCBI account, managing and manipulating your My NCBI page content using the features and options available in My NCBI, identify and differentiate available filters on PubMed’s filter sidebar, select and set up to 15 filters, and creating a custom filter.

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ATM (June 10, 2013)

This session covers Automatic Term Mapping (ATM), the process that maps keywords from your PubMed search to the controlled vocabulary of the MeSH database. Learn why searching with keywords in PubMed can be an effective approach to searching. The session also covers the explosion feature, what is and isn’t included in Search Details and lastly how PubMed processes/handles a phrase.

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Building and Refining Your Search (June 12, 2013)

This session of PubMed for Librarians focused on using some of the tools and features built into PubMed that are designed to help you search more effectively. Explore the new filter Sidebar, topic-specific subsets, History, the advanced search Index feature and building a search using broad subject terms applied to journals in the NLM catalog.

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What We Learned in “School”: Stories from Three Training and Learning Conferences

Watch the November 7, 2012 recorded session from the National Library of Medicine Training Center (NTC) trainers as they share “aha moments,” tips, techniques and research-based recommendations from three recent professional development conferences.

Topics covered include:

• Presentation skills, including better PowerPoint design
• Tips for creating participant-centered training activities
• Distance learning recommendations

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Powerpoint

Sharon Brown – 28th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning

Powerpoint

Sharon Dennis – Bob Pike Annual Conference

Powerpoint

Rebecca Brown – Presentation Summit

MLA Educational Clearinghouse

The Medical Library Association (MLA) Educational Clearinghouse is the new home for some of the resources previously available from the National Training and Clearinghouse Center (NTCC). The NTCC is no longer an active repository for training materials, but you can learn about how to sign up, find and add to the new clearinghouse by watching one of the short videos created by the new National Library of Medicine Training Center.

1. Create a Clearinghouse Account (1 min 12 sec – November 2011)
   
2. Add a resource to the Clearinghouse (2 min 13 sec – November 2011)
   
3. How to Search the MLA Clearinghouse for RML Offerings Using Advanced Search (1 min 38 sec – November 2011)
   

Visit the new MLA Educational Clearinghouse at: http://cech.mlanet.org/
View RML offerings here