PubMed is a database of citations to more than 18 million journal articles from over 4,600 of the world's most significant health sciences journals. These PubMed citations to articles come from journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and the life sciences. 

PubMed incorporates Medline but is more up to date than Medline. PubMed is freely available on the internet. It contains citations to articles that have been indexed by experts, plus more recent articles that are awaiting indexing. The database is updated weekly. The University of Adelaide Library has a customized version of PubMed that provides direct links to some Uni of Adelaide electronic journals. You can use this version of PubMed by finding it on

The Library Home

Graphics with red borders show what you should see on your screen. They are not 'live' windows and will not respond to clicking or typing.

The Catalogue

As well as using The Catalogue you can get direct access to the customized version of PubMed by clicking on the button below.
Use one of these methods to open a new window to PubMed now.

From outside the university network you will be challenged to show you are a Uni of Adelaide student. To do this enter 'a' followed by your student number as your User Name, and your password.
Click on the Login button to get access to PubMed.

If you need help with User Name and Password, click on the button below to see the Library web page on authentication. Close this window after you have viewed the content.

In your PubMed window click on Tutorials on the blue side bar.

PubMed will open a new window.
Click on The PubMed Tutorial link.

Now you should have 3 browser windows open,
This introductory page,  the PubMed database, and the NLM PubMed Tutorial
If you have trouble with any of these please contact me.

 If you are using a home computer you may need to download the Flash player software now. You'll have to close down this window and the PubMed window first.
After downloading Flash player you should open a new window and return to this site at
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/med/anat/1pm.html

Read through the rest of the PubMed tutorial screen and then continue the tutorial by clicking on Using this Tutorial in the blue side bar on the left

Continue to click on Next to read more details about PubMed. Read up to and including the section on Goals and Objectives.

You don't need to read the section called PubMed Overview.

After you have read through this one screen close the site and return to this screen. Move to the next section of this Library PubMed Tutorial.

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