Researchers

When you search PubMed for a phrase, or multi-word concept, its powerful search features jump into action to retrieve relevant results. Sometimes, however, you may want to use advanced search techniques to look for exact phrases or variations on a phrase. This tutorial will address the questions:  

What are preprints, and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared?

Should you use information from preprints? Should you share your own research results in a preprint? This course from the National Library of Medicine® explains the basics of preprints, and explores the benefits and considerations of using and submitting preprints.

PubMed maps your search terms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) to augment your search with additional terms from the vocabulary that NLM uses to describe articles in MEDLINE®/PubMed. Take this course to better understand how PubMed uses MeSH and how you can take control of your PubMed topic searches for better precision or recall.