Table of Contents
Searching the Scholarly Literature
How to Search for Public Health Resources
Where to Search for Public Health Resources
Finding Textbooks and Other References
Finding Health Data and Statistics
Evaluating Evidence in Public Health
General Guidance on Evaluating Information
Doing a simple search in PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's online database for searching MEDLINE and additional biomedical and life sciences literature. It is one of the most up to date, comprehensive and powerful databases for finding scholarly literature in biomedicine.
To start, try doing a simple search of PubMed by typing keywords into the serch box on the main page using keywords. When you do this, PubMed will suggest search terms based on common searches.
Pubmed is a very powerful information database which has advanced options for searching that can help researchers to hone in on just what they're looking for. Go to the PubMed Tutorial for detailed information on how to get the most out of searching this database.