LibGuides: Nutritional Science Subject Guide: Using PubMed

PubMed

PubMed is the premier database for medical literature. Here you may search for peer-reviewed journal articles related to nutritional sciences.

PubMed
Locate scholarly journal articles about health and medicine. This is the best place to start research in nutritional sciences. This link connects to UConn Library resources.

PubMed Basics
Just getting started with PubMed? Watch a demonstration of five simple tips for searching from Duke University
Using PubMed Tutorial
Using PubMed Tutorial from Duke University
PubMed Training
A series of basic and in-depth tutorials from NCBI
PubMed User Guide
FAQs, search operators, and other tips for searching from NCBI
Using MeSH
MeSH terms provide the standardized terminology PubMed uses for a topic. Example: heart attack is indexed as myocardial infarction. They also allow you to focus your search.
My NCBI
Save PubMed searches or references when you are working on a paper or project. A UConn email or other third-party login is required.
UConn Library Guide - Searching PubMed systematically
Covers advanced features of PubMed such as proximity searching, truncation, and using search hedges

Search Strategy for Complementary Medicine
Use these suggested search strategies in PubMed to identify literature in the areas of complementary and alternative medicine.