With over 30 million citations, PubMed is one of the leading sources of biomedical information and recently went through major upgrades to its platform. Some highlights of these upgrades include:
New Display, Navigation, & Output Features:
•Preview snippets from the abstracts on the results page
•Page from abstract to abstract
•Navigate around a record using the sidebar
•Cite in your preferred format
•Share via social media or permalink
•Access everything from your mobile device
New Result Retrieval Features:
•Enhanced synonymy-includes plural forms
•Enhanced British/American mapping-accounts for various spellings of titles
•Unlimited truncation-use to be limited to first 600 characters
•Improved sensors-can now sense titles and authors to better map to source
•Improved Best Match-brings best results to the top
PubMed Searching Best Practices
With all the new features of PubMed, it is important to still keep in mind these best practices for searching:
