PubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Access PubMed from the Health Sciences Library or UCF Libraries web sites to see icons showing full-text availability.
Use the tabs near the top of the page to navigate through the pages of this guide. Tabs are available for:
- Searching PubMed provides step-by-step instructions for running a search in PubMed, including inputting search terms, using filters to limit your search by language, ages, and other common topics, viewing your results, printing/saving/emailing your citations, and how to find the full-text of articles and order copies if needed.
- Find Full Text lists steps to follow to get a complete journal article from a PubMed citation.
- MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), the list of keywords or descriptors that describe articles in MEDLINE. Use MeSH to identify search terms and to focus a search.
- Advanced Search provides information on improving your search results by:
- Broadening a search using MeSH and Related Articles
- Narrowing a search using * field tags *History and the Advanced Search window and *limiting retrieval to research-based citations. Also see hints for dealing with too many or too few citations.
- My NCBI provides an overview on how to create and manage a myNCBI account.
- Exporting Citations to EndNote from PubMed, Google Scholar, and other various resources.
- Instructional Videos and tutorials found on PubMed's Online Training website.
For comprehensive PubMed help see PubMed Help or click the Help link at the top right of PubMed pages.
