PubMed: (Publicly accessible - but some full text is UW Restricted). The National Library of Medicine's search service to over 36 million citations in Medline and related databases. (UW Health Sciences Library How-to Guide.) (UW HSL PubMed Free Account Guide: MyNCBI.)
There are several videos in the Quick Tours section of the PubMed Online Training page. Check PubMed News for updates.
The PubMed interface smart search recommends searching without punctuation first. If needed, use the asterisk (*) symbol to retrieve multiple variations of a word; e.g. nurs* will retrieve nurse, nursed, nurses, and nursing. (Search tips for this database).
If you are off-campus and want to access the UW Restricted full text in PubMed, click on the PubMed link above and you should be prompted to login with you UW NetID and password.
PubMed Guides and Tutorials:
To Search for Research Articles in PubMed:
1. Type your search into the search box(es). Examples: registered nurse job satisfaction
or
improve nurses job satisfaction retention
If needed, you can add the word classical article, qualitative, or quantitative to your search. (Optional -- refer to the UW HSL guide for "Finding Qualitative Research Articles")
Examples: -- diabetes education classical article
-- indigenous peoples native americans diabetes qualitative
-- aged female chronic pain quantitative
Search for qualitative articles with MeSH Terms, by adding them to your search words:
2. (Optional) Try locating a couple Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) that are relevant to your search topic that you can use.
Options:
3. (Optional) After you have completed a search,use the PubMed Filters, located on the left side of your search results page. They include Results by year, Text availability, Article attribute, Article types, Publication dates, Species, Languages, Sex, and Ages.
How to filter to Reviews, and by Publication Date
How to filter to a Classical Article and other types of articles
5. Now Classical Article will be displayed as an Article Type category on your results page. Click in the box to the left of it to activate this filter.
6. You can add more article types by selecting the types you want, and then and click on the "Show" button.
For more information on article types/publication types see the publication characteristics (publication types) - scope notes page (from the National Library of Medicine).
(Optional) Another PubMed tool that students like: