Table of Contents: 2014 JULY–AUGUST No. 399

New Tutorial: Searching Drugs or Chemicals in PubMed

New Tutorial: Searching Drugs or Chemicals in PubMed. NLM Tech Bull. 2014 Jul-Aug;(399):b7.

2014 August 06 [posted]

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new PubMed Tutorial: Searching Drugs or Chemicals in PubMed.

The tutorial offers tips on effectively and efficiently searching PubMed for drugs and chemicals. Nine brief modules with video demonstrations include guidance on substance-related Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), using the MeSH Database, effective searching with pharmacological action terms, converting special characters in systematic names, and using tags in searching.

The new tutorial complements the suite of PubMed tutorials, Webinars and classes accessible by clicking PubMed Tutorials from the homepage of PubMed (see Figure 1).

Screen capture of the PubMed homepage with the link to the PubMed Tutorials highlighted

Figure 1: The PubMed homepage with a link to the PubMed Tutorials.