Library Resources for Nursing PhD Students: Exploring: PubMed

PubMed makes its basic search feature fairly simple. Just copy and paste the search string you created from your concept table into the search bar, then click Search.

(Nurse OR Nurses OR "Nursing personnel") AND ("Health literacy") AND (Rural OR "Rural areas" OR "Rural health centers" OR "Rural population" OR "Rural populations" OR "Rural health nursing" OR "Underserved populations")

After clicking Search, you will see the results page. You can apply limits and filters by clicking the words on the left-hand sidebar.

Clicking on Additional filters will offer more options for filter types.

Select the ones you want to see, click on Show, and then click on the filters to apply them after the page has refreshed. As you select filters, PubMed will refresh the results page to display only those articles that meet the selected criteria.

To access articles that look relevant to you, click on the article title to open the article page. Click on one of the links to the right to view Full Text of the article.

The Cite feature automatically generates citations in AMA, MLA, APA, and NLM citation styles. (Note: proofread these citations carefully before submitting any assignments.) Page through your results from the article record page by clicking the arrows to the right and left of the page. Use the record navigation menu on the right to jump down to specific areas of the article record. For instance, clicking on Similar Articles will quickly jump the page down to show you the articles that are related to this one.

To save the article to a citation manager (like RefWorks, Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote), click on "Send to" from either the article page or the results page. Select "Citation manager." If on the results page, choose if you want to save the selection, the current page you're viewing, or the entire results.

Then, click on "Create file."

To save articles to RefWorks, log in from the Laupus homepage, then click Add.

Select Import References.

Click "select a file from your computer."

Find the PubMed .nbib file that you downloaded.

Then click Import, Import, OK.

To view the full record for an article, click on the title. To read the full abstract, click on "View full abstract."

Setting an alert will allow PubMed to run your search as frequently as you want it to, and you will receive e-mail alerts when new articles become available that meet your search criteria. To create an alert, click on Create Alert at the top of the page (under the search bar).

Follow the prompts to determine the name of your saved search and frequency that you would like it to run. Make note of the e-mail address that the alert will be sent to.