PubMed Literature Search: Easy Recipes for Students and Clinicians (English Edition)

Between 2000 and 4000 new articles are published daily in medicine, biology and other life sciences. To identify the handful of papers that are relevant to your interests or research focus is not an easy task, and the literature database PubMed has become an indispensable tool for this. However, few people have time or inclination to study the intricacies of PubMed's syntax.This guide provides a short introduction to PubMed and, even more importantly, a number of ready-made templates for queries that you can adapt to your own needs, even if you have never used PubMed before. Finally, you will learn how to export references and obtain full text publications. If any of your questions remain unanswered, the author's e-mail address is provided for further discussion.