Rebecca Brown of the NN/LM Mid-Continental Region on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 presented “Update on PubMed” one of the region’s classes in the Spotlight! on National Library of Medicine Resources series. The classes focus on specific databases and provide practice time with exercises. The archived recording for the PubMed session is available at <https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p67806081/>. All sessions are listed and archived at: <http://nnlm.gov/mcr/services/updates/spotlightresources.html>. Log-in information is also available at that location. These online training classes are FREE and require no registration. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a phone. Classes are presented on the fourth Wednesday of each month.
submitted by Jeanette de Richemond, MLIS, AHIP
Chair, Education and Credentialing, 2008-2010
RefNavigator is also a good reference manager to search literature from Pubmed and Highwire. It can download Pubmed full-text PDFs in bulk and automatically make bibliographies in Microsoft Word. There are online Pubmed tutorial (http://www.refnavigator.com/entrezpubmed.html) and bibliographies formatting tutorial (http://www.refnavigator.com/Bibliographyformat.html).