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The New PubMed: Trainer's Toolkit

Instructional materials for teaching the new PubMed.

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A New PubMed (full version) Slides introducing the new PubMed to an audience of experienced users (such as health sciences librarians). We encourage you to copy and adapt these slides to your outreach and training needs and style appropriate to your audience. These slides are free of copyright restriction, but we appreciate attribution to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This is a 25-30 minute presentation without abridgment. March 20, 2020 30 min(s) PowerPoint / Slides
A New PubMed (brief version) Slides introducing the new PubMed to an audience of experienced users (such as health sciences librarians). We encourage you to abridge, expand, adapt and/or redistribute these slides to better meet the needs of your audience. These slides are free of copyright restriction, but we appreciate attribution to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This short version would be appropriate for a 5-10 minute presentation. March 20, 2020 10 min(s) PowerPoint / Slides
Introduction to PubMed These slides were designed to introduce PubMed to new users who have no prior experience with PubMed, and can be presented in about 45 minutes, as-is. However, we encourage you to abridge, expand, adapt and/or redistribute these slides to better meet the needs of your audience. Additionally, five slides (numbers 1, 2, 6, 13, and 38) should be either removed or modified, depending on your specific needs. These slides are free of copyright restriction, but we appreciate attribution to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Feb. 12, 2020 45 min(s) PowerPoint / Slides
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Tips for Using PubMed A two-page handout on the very basics of PubMed. March 6, 2020 N/A PDF / Pamphlet
Tips for Using PubMed (version for editing) An editable version of a two-page handout on the very basics of PubMed. April 30, 2020 N/A MS Word / Course Materials
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PubMed: Find articles on a topic A brief tutorial on how to find articles on a topic using PubMed. Jan. 23, 2020 1 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
PubMed: Find articles by author A brief tutorial on how to find articles by an author using PubMed. Jan. 23, 2020 2 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
PubMed: Find articles from a citation A brief tutorial on how to find articles from citation information using PubMed. Jan. 27, 2020 2 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
PubMed: Find articles by journal A brief tutorial on how to find articles from a journal using PubMed. Jan. 27, 2020 2 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
PubMed: Find the latest treatments for a disease or disorder A brief tutorial on how to find the latest treatments for a disease or disorder using PubMed. Jan. 23, 2020 2 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
PubMed: Get the full text for an article A brief tutorial on how to get the full text for an article cited in PubMed. Jan. 27, 2020 2 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
PubMed: Save searches and set e-mail alerts A brief tutorial on how to get alerts for articles on a topic using PubMed. Jan. 27, 2020 2 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
PubMed subject search: How it works A brief tutorial on how automatic term mapping and explosion enhance your PubMed search. Jan. 28, 2020 4 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
What is in PubMed? Learn what you can find in PubMed, and how it got there. Feb. 28, 2020 3 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
PubMed and MedlinePlus: Consumer health Help consumers find research in PubMed using MedlinePlus April 2, 2020 3 min(s) MP4 Video / Quick Tour
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PubMed: Find Articles by Author How to search for an author in PubMed using the search box and Advanced Search (SCORM version). Jan. 22, 2020 2 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
PubMed: Find Articles on a Topic How to craft a simple topic search of PubMed (SCORM version). Jan. 22, 2020 2 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
PubMed: Find Articles from a Citation Find an article from the author, journal source, publication date or other citation data using PubMed (SCORM version). Jan. 27, 2020 3 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
PubMed: Find Articles by Journal How to search for a journal in PubMed (SCORM version). Jan. 22, 2020 2 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
PubMed: Find the Latest Treatments for a Disease How to quickly find articles about treatment for a disease using PubMed (SCORM version). Jan. 22, 2020 2 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
PubMed: Get the Full Text of an Article How to link to the full text from PubMed (SCORM version). April 16, 2020 2 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
PubMed: Save Searches and Set E-mail Alerts How to save a search and email search results in PubMed (SCORM version). Jan. 27, 2020 2 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
PubMed Subject Search: How It Works A brief tutorial on how automatic term mapping and explosion enhance your PubMed search (SCORM version). Feb. 28, 2020 4 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
What is in PubMed? Learn what is in PubMed and how it got there. Feb. 28, 2020 3 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
PubMed and MedlinePlus: Consumer Health Help consumers find research in PubMed using MedlinePlus April 2, 2020 3 min(s) ZIP / SCORM Package
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A New PubMed: Highlights for Information Professionals In this webinar for librarians and other information professionals Marie Collins from the National Library of Medicine demonstrates the new, modern PubMed. Key points, common questions and instructional materials (slides) for PubMed trainers to use are linked from this webinar page. May 28, 2020 37 min(s) MP4 Video / Webinar
How PubMed Works How PubMed Works is a series of four 90-minute classes presented via WebEx. May 28, 2020 N/A HTML / Webinar Source Page

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