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For students who are in the Allied Health programs at Harcum, PubMed is an excellent database to use when you need to search for peer-reviewed articles on a health topic. The database, which contains over 34 million citations from biomedical literature and a significant amount of full-text availability, is maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. As it is a government database, PubMed is open to the general public and does not require a password for access. A link to PubMed can be found in our A-Z Databases list as well as under the Databases tab in the various health-related program and topic Library Guides.

When you enter PubMed, you are first brought to a simple search screen:

Large blue box with PubMed.gov in the header. Search box beneath with green Search button on the right. "Advanced" beneath search box on the left. Below that: "PubMed® comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites."

An Advanced search is also available. Type in keywords related to your topic, and you will be get a list of results. On the left-hand side of the results page, you will find a number of limiters. One of them is a Text Availability limiter. If you would like to limit your results only to articles for which the full text is available through PubMed, click on Free Full Text.

White box with "Text Availability" in the header. Three checkboxes beneath: Abstract, Free full text, Full text. Free Full text checked.

Within the full records for these articles, you will see one or more options for full-text access to the right of the title, including Free Full Text [from] PMC (PubMed Central):

At top: Review Cochrane Database Syst Rev . 2018 Mar 15;3(3):CD011276. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011276.pub2. Beneath: "Breast Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer" in bold black letters. Encircled in red to the right: Full Text Links, Cochrane Library, Free Full Text [from] PMC.

Date limiters are also provided along with limiters for Article Type. The Article Type limiters are especially useful if you would like to limit your results to the categories of articles found on the Evidence-Based Medicine Pyramid, such as systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials.

Box with "Article Type" in header. Checkboxes beneath: Books and Documents, Clinical Trial, Meta-Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trial, review, Systematic Review. "Randomized Controlled Trial and "Systematic Review" checked off.

More filters, including additional article types, language, and age, can be found by clicking on the Additional Filters button.

PubMed also has a citation feature within each article record that will provide you with the AMA, APA, MLA, or NLM citation. As always, if you use this feature, be sure to verify the citation using the appropriate print manual, our Cite Sources Guide, or Purdue OWL.

For a more complete overview of PubMed, we recommend that you check out our PubMed video tutorial, which can be found on our Database Tutorials page.

Remember that if you need help with this resource or any other, we are always here to help you. You may come to the Library in person, call us at 610-526-6085, email us at library@harcum.edu, or use our chat service on the Library's homepage when it is available.

Bill Fanshel

Evening/Weekend Librarian

wfanshel@harcum.edu

610-229-9311

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