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PubMed: Searching for journal articles (Location: Royal Free Hospital Medical Library)

22 August 2019, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Location: Royal Free Hospital Medical Library/Small TESA. PubMed is a key resource allowing you to search the biomedical and life sciences literature. It provides free access to the Medline database.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Royal Free Hospital Medical Library

Location

Small TESA
Royal Free Hospital Medical Library
Rowland Hill Street
London
NW3 2PF
United Kingdom

This session consists of a demonstration and a chance to have some hands on practice. It covers:

  • how to search PubMed effectively
  • how PubMed interprets your search terms (how it works behind the scenes)
  • what MeSH is and how to use it
  • finding full-text papers
  • outputting results, saving searches, and creating alerts