PubMed: searching for journal articles

Location: Queen Square Library Training Room, UCL Institute of Neurology, 1st Floor, 23 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG

Booking a place: To make a booking please email neurolibrary@ucl.ac.uk. Please note: courses may be cancelled at short notice if too few bookings have been received and your booking is only secured when you have received a confirmation email from us.

Course outline: This session aims to give you the ability to carry out a literature search on PubMed effectively and find articles and evidence to help answer your research questions.

By the end of the session you will be able to:

• Run an effective literature search independently
• Understand what MeSH terms are and why they are used
• Understand the importance of the 'Details' link
• Filter out evidence based literature
• Print, save and email your references
• Save your search
• Take advantage of features of the PubMed site