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This is an eye-opening article that illustrates the
challenges our interpreting staff face daily in providing great communication
services to our families and visitors. It provides a look at the behind the
scenes work involved in creating the Spanish version of MedlinePlus, MedlinePlus en español, the trusted consumer health resource from
the National Library of Medicine. Author Fedora
Braverman is team lead for the MedlinePlus en español website.
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If you want to save a PubMed MEDLINE search and get
updates you need to set up a MyNCBI account
at PubMed. You can customize it so that filters like “review” or “all child” or
“published in the last 5 years” always show up to the side of your searches for
a quick note of how that changes your results (to actually do that search you
need to click the real filters on the left though). If you always sign in
before searching, then when you search it will keep your history for 6 months
instead of timing out after 8 hours. Warning though – the Clipboard does
disappear!
1. Go to PubMed. If you use your own
health science library’s unique address you will see an indicator when you
reach an article they have. If you are connected with more than one library,
you can add additional filters later on in the process. If you are not on
campus the links will not give you full text, but you can use the library's remote access
service (ours is OpenAthens) to reach it.
2. Click on Sign in to NCBI – the link is in the upper right corner. If you are
in Chrome it can save your password once you get set up. You’ll see a link to
an overview YouTube video on the right and a list of some of the features.
3. The MyNCBI home page has a number
of sections – a place to collect articles on a topic, an area that shows the
search alerts you set up, a list of the filters you choose, and a place to
gather your own bibliography to easily pass along. There’s a good Help section.
You can customize these windows.
4. Back at NLM's main PubMed page when
you have done a search you will see Create
alert just below the search box. Clicking that will give you a set up
screen. There you can name it and schedule the frequency. Perhaps write
yourself a note in the “Any text you want to be added…” area as a reminder if
this is for a paper or other specific activity besides general interest.
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