PubMed has the following software functionalities to help organize and sort references. MeSH searches have three applications that allow you to refine the search so that the search yield is very specific to what you are looking for. After running any search you can select the summary format that you want to view your results in. Saving the results of your search is done in collections. You need to open a NCBI account to do this, once done you can send results from either the results screen or the clipboard the collection- be sure to name this collection for easy identification.
PubMed has another function called My Bibliography which allows authors to both search for and collect citations. This process involves going into “my saved data” and clicking on the link to my bibliography. There is a + sign that when clicked allows you to add items. Once again you create a search and then select the citations you want to keep. Clicking on the “add to my bibliography” button will send them over to this screen , additions can be added at any time.
Another management tool if you regularly search for citation on a certain topic is in “ My NCBI” and you just need to set up a search strategy as well as an automatic e-mail update.Finally Real Simple Syndication (RSS) allows you to send new items or information to recipients who use RSS feed readers. The Send to RSS function in PubMed allows you to generate an RSS feed of a PubMed search to display new results, with links back to the citations in PubMed
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I have recently set up "My NCBI" feature which has become very valuable to me. It is amazing what you learn when you take a class like this. It has saved me time when I needed to find an article again. I am still trying to learn the MeSH feature in PubMed. I think it is going to take time, but once mastered will be beneficial. I do find it a bit cumbersome as it can take several steps to apply all the information you want. I think it will be very useful when doing a research paper, but the MeSH feature may be too time consuming when sitting in an office while your next patient is waiting while you look up information on the question they have asked. Learning how to use good search terms will be beneficial.
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