LibGuides: Searching PubMed: Overview

Guide Overview

This guide was created to help you

Find relevant references in PubMed quickly and effectively,
Understand how information is structured and utilized in PubMed so you can build an effective search,
Save searches, build collections, and export results to better integrate PubMed into your research process.

About PubMed

PubMed (MEDLINE) This link opens in a new window
PubMed is a bibliographic (citation/abstract-only) database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes 26+ million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Get Full Text in PubMed

Make sure to use Brown's link for PubMed (accessed through the library page) to ensure you'll connect to our subscriptions and interlibrary loan services. If you use PubMed often, you can bookmark our link:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?myncbishare=brownu

When you are on an article page, click the "Find It" button to connect back to our full text (if we have it), or be prompted to submit an ILL request (if we don't have it).