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PubMed @ NIH-Fully Loaded


Be sure you are maximizing all the options available to you in PubMed® as an NIH staff member. The NIH Library's Full-Text Plus! interface works in conjunction with PubMed to offer you a variety of services. However, PubMed must "know" that you are NIH staff. Because PubMed is free to the public, it has an address (URL) that is globally accessible. This generic link does not recognize NIH Library subscriptions, so if you connect to PubMed using the generic URL, you will often run into a user name/password window or a publisher's cost-per-article fee message when trying to access full-text articles.

The main benefit of using the PubMed @ NIH, via the NIH Library website, is that you will see the NIH Library Full-Text Plus! button in the abstract view of PubMed citations. Clicking on the button will open a window that provides links for online journals to which the NIH Library subscribes. It also offers an interlibrary loan option if the Library does not subscribe, or if the year of the article is not covered by the Library's subscription.

Other options that may display in the Full-Text Plus! window (depending on the specific citation) are:
  • Search the item in NLM's catalog—LocatorPlus
  • Search the same author in Web of Science
  • Download the records into Reference Manager
  • Link to the real-time chat service—Ask a Librarian
  • Link to the NIH Library FAQ page
  • Link to the NIH Library feedback form
  • Request a literature search
You will see "PubMed @ NIH" across this website. This is your indication that when you access PubMed you will be identified as NIH staff and your assurance that you will be able to access NIH Library online journals from within PubMed, as well as other services.




Last Updated: 6/4/2012 10:51 AM