Set Up Your Own Search Alert Using MyNCBI

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.

Websites Referenced

MyNCBI  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/account/

PubMed  www.pubmed.gov

Our PubMed   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?holding=txudtslib

OpenAthens Remote Access (must contact library for an account)  https://my.openathens.net/

MyNCBI Home Page YouTube video   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks46w3mNAQE

MyNCBI Help link  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3843/

NLM https://www.nlm.nih.gov/

All MyNCBI video tutorials    www.youtube.com/user/NCBINLM

Journals - What’s New in Your Favorites? Easy eTOCs!

A new PubMed Labs experiment offers a super awareness tool, PubMed Journals. It is a fast and current way to follow the latest releases from your favorite health science journals that are indexed in MEDLINE – or at least know when they show up in PubMed. First you do need to have a My NCBI account, a service that offers lots more useful features and doesn’t send you junk mail. Once you have that, set it to stay signed in so any time you go to PubMed you’ll be in your account. If you want to see what the library offers, be sure to use our unique address (or this one if you are on staff at the med school).

Then locate PubMed Journals in the lower left of the PubMed home page. Enter a title in the search box at PubMed Journals (if you type slowly a suggestion list will appear!). No additional sign-in is needed, no registration at the publisher website. No email alerts clogging up your in-box! Your list of titles followed is right on the page. Easily discontinue by clicking “Following” to “Follow” – the title will disappear from the list the next time you return to the page. The page also lists popular journals for easy access.

A tip – to return to PubMed from PubMed Journals or My NCBI, just scroll to the very bottom to click on PubMed in the “Popular” column.

Add PubMed Journals to your own “Popular” list of websites today!

Websites Referenced

https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2016/09/07/pubmed-journals/ (and check the comments section there to learn more and provide development input!)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/

http://boneuponlibrarynews.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-ncbi-valuable-tool-for-proactive.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?holding=txudtslib
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?holding=txudtslib,utswmlib 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/journals/ 

My NCBI, a Valuable Tool for Proactive Awareness

My NCBI is a valuable tool in your research and patient care! Want to store your MEDLINE searches? Want an alert when a new article is posted on the topics you are most interested in? Want a convenient place to store your own bibliography and references to articles of interest? Is your research NIH-funded and you want to track its public accessibility status?

Sign up for a free account (nothing is emailed to you except the alerts you set up yourself). Watch some of their MYNCBI YouTube tutorials such as MyNCBI Home Page. Enjoy this convenient tool!

Websites Referenced:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?holding=txudtslib

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFjV91YNNY&list=PL88E9E5EA3BECE0D7&index=6    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gApmLHdCSM&list=PL88E9E5EA3BECE0D7&index=3     

https://www.youtube.com/user/NCBINLM  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYODIOD_YYE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL88E9E5EA3BECE0D7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks46w3mNAQE