Search PubMed

Search PubMed

How Is This Guide Organized?

Select a relevant section of this guide or use it as a tutorial with the "Next" buttons at the bottom of each page.

Find Full Text Links

• Types of Full Text Access Links

Basic PubMed Search Features:

• Author and Citation Search

• Using Filters

• Citation Creator

Building an Advanced Search:

• Using the Query Box

• Adding Field Tags

• Finding and Saving Search History

MyNCBI Account (Personalize Your PubMed Experience):

• Your Dashboard

• Set NCBI Site Preferences

• Save Searches and Set Alerts

• Build Collections

What is PubMed?

PubMed is a free resource for locating articles from the biomedical and life sciences literature, including clinical medicine, nursing, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and numerous allied health fields.

With a single search box, PubMed lets you search multiple databases at once, which adds up to 34 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.

For more information about how journals are selected to to be included in PubMed databases, check out this short video from the National Library of Medicine.