It is easy to use the medical database search engines on the NLM web site. This online tutorial will teach you how to navigate NLM search forms and use the generated list to request articles from your affiliated New Hampshire medical library! Lets get started...
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The NLM site features two search engines, Internet Grateful Med and Pub Med. There are differences between the search engines that might lead you to prefer one over the other.
Below are tutorials for both engines!
Internet Grateful Med Tutorial
Here we demonstrate how to use the Internet Grateful Med Search engine. If you direct your browser to and click the proceed button you will see the following screen.
It is a relatively easy matter to fill in the blanks of the search form and obtain your results. Let' s take a closer look....
PubMed Tutorial
Here we demonstrate how to use the Pub Med Search engine.
This is the input screen for Pub Med which is located at . The basic search is very straightforward - simply input search key words and select the publication date limit and number of documents to display per page. Here are some Pub Med hints.
After inputting the terms and clicking on the "search" button the articles found by your search will be displayed......
