Using NCBI

Nancy B. Clark, M.Ed.Director of Medical Informatics Education

FSU College of Medicine

1All recourses are available online in Medical Informatics site under Topics: Research

Registering for NCBI

Register and get a Username and Password

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Why get NCBI Account?Save searches Save citations in My Bibliography Automatically update and e-mail search results

from your saved searchesFilter search results Highlighting search terms

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My NCBI

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Customize My NCBITutorials: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/myncbi.html Saving SearchesSaving ReferencesCustomizing the TabsHighlighting Search Terms

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My NCBI – Saving a Search

Develop a search.Click on ‘Save Search’.

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My NCBI – Saving a SearchGive name and

SaveComplete form for

email notification‘My NCBI’ puts

the search in your list.

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My NCBI – Saving References (1)

Develop a search.Check the references you want to save.Click on ‘Send To’ and select ‘Clipboard’.

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My NCBI – Saving References (2)

Go to the ‘Clipboard’Click on ‘Send To’ and select Collections.

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My NCBI – Saving References (3)

Tell My NCBI what to call the collection

Or Append to an existing collection

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My NCBI – Saving References (4)

To see the collection or saved search, click on ‘My NCBI’ > Collections

Can download collections into a reference manager such as EndNote or RefWorks.

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My NCBI – Customizing the Filters

1. Click on ‘My NCBI’2. ‘Manage Filters’

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My NCBI – Customizing the Filters

Try “Browse Filters” to see different types

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My NCBI – Highlighting Search Terms

Click on ‘NCBI Site Preferences’.

Click on ‘Highlighting’Pick colors

Have Journal Contents Sent (1)1. Search ‘Journals Database’2. Enter a general subject term, e.g. “Pediatrics”, then

‘Go’.3. Click on a journal title to get information about that

journal.4. Continue with another search for a Journal, find and

select5. Click on ‘Send to’ and select ‘Search Box with OR’.

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Have Journal Contents Sent (2)

4. Click on ‘Search PubMed’.5. Click on ‘Save Search’, name it, and set up

email as earlier. 6. You will be notified when new articles are

published in these journals.

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Links to Other NCBI Databases

NCBI has other databases that link to PubMed. (examples: CoreNucleotide,

Gene, HomoloGene, Protein, Protein)

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