PubMed is a free and publicly available resource provided by the US National Library of Medicine. It covers the biomedical literature and, as the free version of MEDLINE, is highly authoritative.
Use the main search box. PubMed will automatically try to match your terms to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms), and search for those terms as well as the terms you entered. In effect, PubMed does a keyword search and a mapped MeSH search at the same time. This means you "get the best of both worlds" without having to think about it too much.
Just type in your topic terms and let PubMed match to, and search for, MeSH terms for you. Here are the results of a search for information on stroke and communication (8638 results):
If you want to know what search has actually been run:
This will show you exactly what PubMed searched for, and how your terms were "translated".
In this case, stroke, and communication, were matched to a number of like terms, including the MeSH terms stroke and communication.
If you want more control over your searching you can go to Advanced Search and use the Advanced Search Builder to search for terms only in certain fields, including MeSH fields. This is also where you can view, and use, your Search History.
In your results list, you can use the filters (limiters) on the left side of screen for refine your results. There is a large range of filters available.
Many PubMed records will include a link to the full item, often in a resource known as PubMed Central. Where full-text does not appear to be available, go to the full PubMed record and use the link to search for the full article via Primo Search.
If in doubt, copy the article title into Primo Search to see if it's held by CSU Library.
For more help with searching in PubMed, see PubMed Help at top right.
For information on using MeSH terms in PubMed, see the page in this guide on PubMed and MeSH.
For assistance with using PubMed, have a look at the PubMed User Guide, especially the sections on:
You can also try the following interactive tutorials:
For more Help resources, go to PubMed Online Training.
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