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We can help with:
- Literature searches
- Organizing your research
- Setting up topic alerts
- In-services
Why Use Email Alert Services?
- Keep abreast of current literature in your field of interest
- Receive automatic updates in your email
- View journal tables of contents from your home or office
- Keep track of your publications, as well as your peers'
PubMed: My NCBI
Use PubMed's My NCBI feature to: set up topic alerts, subscribe to electronic tables of contents, store searches, and share collections of citations.
PubMed My NCBI Registration is required.
Important: Once you create your My NCBI account, follow these steps to configure My NCBI to show UW Online/UW Holdings buttons. You only need to do this once:
- Log in to MyNCBI.
- Click on the 'NCBI Site Preferences' link near the top right of the page.
- Under 'PubMed Preferences' click on 'Outside Tool'.
- Click the radio button to the left of 'University of Washington: Check for full text @ UW'.
- Click the Save button at the bottom of the list. You will be returned to the 'MyNCBI - Preferences' page.
- Under 'PubMed Preferences' click on 'PubMed Filters & Icons'.
- Select the 'LinkOut' radio button.
- In the 'Search with Terms' box enter University of Washington
- Check 'Filter' and 'Link Icon' boxes to the left of 'University of Washington Health Sciences Library'.
My NCBI: Save Your Search & Set up E-mail Alert
- Sign into My NCBI.
- Run your search using any terms and limits needed for your topic.
- Click 'Save Search.'
- A pop-up window will appear that displays your PubMed search in the box labeled 'Name of Search.'
- Edit the search name to something short, yet meaningful, e.g. c.diff (100 character maximum).
- Click the 'Save' button.
- To sign up for automatic email updates of new search results, fill in the 'Save Search Settings' form. Options can be set for update frequency, zero results notification, report format, etc.
- Click 'Save.'
- Repeat the process for any additional searches, then click on 'Sign Out.'