Welcome!

Welcome to the "PubMed Tutorial", the Web-based learning program that will show you how to search PubMed®, the National Library of Medicine's (NLM™) journal literature search system.

Using the Tutorial

This tutorial has been designed to work with Microsoft Internet Explorer® version 4+ and Netscape™ version 4+. It contains animated demonstrations of procedures, for which you will need the Macromedia Flash™ player. The Flash player can be downloaded and installed at no cost from Macromedia®. You may not be able to view the animated demonstrations if you are using another browser, such as Netscape version 6. For detailed documentation of the system requirements and known incompatibilities, please see the Tutorial FAQ.

The PubMed Tutorial includes several different types of links that may be used to play the animations, pop up glossary terms, or visit another web page.

• There are two different kinds of animation links -- Show Me and Demonstration Steps. When clicked, Show Me will produce an animation of the process just discussed. Demonstration Steps will take you through the process step-by-step. You do not have to click on the Steps in chronological order, although it will make more sense to do so the first time around.
  
  
• Words and phrases that appear in bold blue are glossary items and can be clicked to open a secondary window containing a definition. Should you want to view the entire Glossary, click the Glossary link in the Tutorial sidebar.
  
  
• Words and phrases that appear in blue and are underlined, are links to web sites such as other pages of the Tutorial or PubMed.

This tutorial was last updated in July 2004 and reflects changes to PubMed through July 2004.

Click Next in the sidebar to learn how to navigate through the modules of the PubMed Tutorial or click on the PubMed Overview tab above to jump right into learning about PubMed.