Registering with My NCBI allows you to customize your NCBI services. Save Searches, get Alerts, and set up Filters to group your search results. Create your own password. To access all of the online journal links available in PubMed you must log in to PubMed through the Shimberg Library homepage. DO NOT USE BLACKBOARD access. Select PubMed from the list of available databases. When the login box appears, login with your USF ID, 14 digit, 205…number. See inside for more! PubMed is the Medline database, and more, of over 17 million article records dating from the 1950’s to the present. PubMed is a FREE database used worldwide, indexing the clinical medical literature. It allows you to combine terms, apply limits, and search specific fields, such as author, journal, year, keyword, medical subject heading (MeSH), and other descriptors. PubMed article records contain abstracts, when provided by the author, and FREE full text access to a small percentage of articles provided by the publisher. In addition, USF and the Shimberg Library provide FREE full text access to over 1,200 journals found in PubMed. Look for these links--- to identify those journals. Click on them for access information. If it isn’t ONLINE click the IN PRINT link to see which library has a print copy of your article. You may also check the availability of other journal titles (those without links) by using the online USF library catalog. A guide from the Shimberg Health Sciences Library 03/09 Help Tips for searching the medical literature Director: Beverly A. Shattuck, MS, MBA Hinks & Elaine Shimberg Health Sciences Library University of South Florida Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC-31 Tampa, FL Telephone Numbers Information Circulation Course Registration Education Interlibrary Loan Reference Serials GME Librarian Reference Hours Mon. – Fri.9:00 am – 5:00 pm Library Hours Mon. - Fri. 7:30 am – 11:00 pm Saturday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Sunday 12:00 noon – 11:00 pm My NCBI [Sign In] [Register] College of Nursing

Send to / Clipboard Articles of interest may be held temporarily in Clipboard to allow ing, printing, copying, etc. Place check marks in the boxes in front of the relevant articles, then… Go to the Send To: pull-down menu and select Clipboard. Click Send to. Selected items are now on the Clipboard. To access Clipboard articles, click the tab Use the Send To: pull-down menu in Clipboard and select , file, text, etc., for disposition. (note: For a small number of items, you may want to use the first Send to option, and by-pass using the Clipboard.) Use the tab to select the various options to modify your search. Limit your search by year, language, gender, age group, publication type, etc., to refine your search. The Subsets option allows limiting to Nursing Journals. Limits remain in effect for all subsequent searches until removed. You will see the checkmark in front of the Limits button when they have been applied. You can always ‘turn off’ limits or change them as needed. Click the tab. History keeps track of your searches and numbers them consecutively. Searches may be re-run, modified, combined, etc. Click the search #’s to get Boolean option pop-ups for combining topics. Click for ONLINE My NCBI[Sign In] [Register] Searching Tips and Tricks Truncation – asterisk * at end of word Related Articles – upper right corner of each record. Click for more retrieval. ONLINE full text link. To limit your search results to full text links, ONLINE or in Print, click the Limits tab and check the Links to full text box Change ‘Display’ link from Summary to Abstract to view ONLINE and In Print icons Click for In Print Examples on this page are representations. Actual display results may vary.