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
• TOXNET
• Images from the History of Medicine
• LocatorPlus
• Drug Information Portal
• RxNorm
• Pillbox
• DailyMed
• PubMedHealth
• NCBI, which is part of NLM, maintains multiple biomedical and genomic databases.

Saving Searches (My NCBI)  

• Saving Searches and Creating E-mail Alerts (4 min., revised April 2011)
• Changing Saved Searches (2 min., revised April 2011)
• E-mail Alerts for Articles from Your Favorite Journals (3 min., revised April 2011)

Collections and Bibliographies (My NCBI)

• Collections (3 min., revised April 2011)
• Editing Collections (3 min., revised May 2011)
• Creating Your Bibliography (4 min., revised April 2011)
• Sharing Collections (2 min., revised May 2011)

Preferences and Filters (My NCBI)

• Retrieving Your My NCBI Username or Password (2 min., revised April 2011)
• Changing Your Default Display Settings (2 min., revised April 2011)
• Filters (3 min., revised May 2011) 
  • Custom Filters (2 min., revised May 2011)