Resources for Pharmacists: Using PubMed & MyNCBI

Although to many people, the U.S.National Library of Medicine is synonymous with PubMed, it is much more. It is part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and is the world's most comprehensive medical library. With partner organizations it maintains multiple databases including, but not limited to: 

• PubMed
• MeSH
• UMLS
• Cliical Trials.gov
• MedlinePlus
• Images from the History of Medicine
• LocatorPlus
• Pubchem
• RxNorm
• DailyMed
• NCBI, which is part of NLM, maintains multiple biomedical and genomic databases.

Saving Searches (My NCBI)  

• Saving Searches
• Creating E-mail Alerts
• Changing Saved Searches
• E-mail Alerts for Articles from Your Favorite Journals

Collections and Bibliographies (My NCBI)

• Collections
• Editing Collections
• Creating Your Bibliography
• Sharing Collections

Preferences and Filters (My NCBI)

• Retrieving Your My NCBI Username or Password
• Changing Your Default Display Settings
• Filters 
• Custom Filters