PubMed

My NCBI is a free account that PubMed users can create to keep their research organized. Registering for an account through PubMed is easy and free. Once you have created an account, you are able to:

•  Save search strategies
• Create collections to save searches or individual records
• Save search history for up to six months
• Highlight search terms

Check our Creating an Account to help you set up your account!

To save a search that you have created you will need to be in "Advanced". This will be on the main search page under the search box. Here you can follow these steps to help you save searches.

1.After identifying the search you wish to save, click the three dots to see a menu of options. Choose "Create Alert" 

2. This will open a new set options. Here you can:

• Save your search to your My NCBI dashboard
  • If you need a reminder on how to access your dashboard, check out Viewing and Managing Your Collections
• Create Alerts when new results are added to your search
  • You can even specify how often you are notified

Once you have set your preferences, hit "save" and you're done!

PubMed allows you adjust your highlighting preferences. This can be helpful because your keywords will show up highlighted in the title or abstract, making it easier to screen your results. Follow these steps to help you change your highlighting preferences. 

1. Once logged in you will click in your account information found in the upper right hand corner of any PubMed page. This will display a few menu options. You will then select "Account Settings"

2. Then you will go into your "Site Preferences" 

3. Once in your preference page, you can adjust your highlighting preferences.

Because PubMed is freely accessible and does not directly provide e-journal subscriptions, it is not necessary (or possible) to use your Rush account to sign in with OpenAthens. As a result, PubMed will usually only recognize you as a Rush patron and provide Rush’s Get It at Rush button if you reach the PubMed site by following a link on the library's site. If you reach PubMed through a search engine, you will not be shown Rush's links. 

However, if you are signed in to your My NCBI account, it's possible to designate up to five institutional affiliations for which PubMed will provide full-text access links. PubMed refers to these as "Outside Tools." Selecting Rush's Outside Tool will add the Get It button to each article's abstract page, which will allow you to use your Rush account to sign in and retrieve the full text of articles covered by the library's e-journal subscriptions. 

To activate an Outside Tool, use the link below to open your My NCBI account settings. FInd "Rush University Medical Center Library" in the list of institutions and check the box next to it. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/pubmed/outsidetool/

More detailed information and instructions are available in NLM's My NCBI documentation.