Revision: What’s the purpose of My Bibliography on MyNCBI?

 

This morning, I sat down with our department’s manager of grants of contracts to discuss the most recent version of SciENcv. It was a very interesting tutorial, and I hope to be able to communicate its contents to you soon.

Right now, though, I wanted to communicate one quick revision to one of the library’s infographics — “Searching PubMed: Saving Results.” In the old version, I said that My Bibliography was a general catch-all for results, a good place to put articles that you wanted to categorize later. In my talk with the grant manager, it turns out that this is not the real purpose of My Bibliography. It’s better used to keep track of your own publications. Using it this way will help you greatly as you fill out your SciENcv profile.

You can access the updated infographic here.

Happy researching!

~Rebecca

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Searching PubMed: Saving results

Here’s the next installment in our infographic series on searching PubMed: a quick tutorial on saving results. If you already have a My NCBI account and you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the saving options, you might be interested to learn that My NCBI wasn’t built solely for PubMed users. Its main goal is to support NCBI’s databases — and at last count, there were 65 of them. I haven’t done a comprehensive survey of these databases, so I don’t know how all of them use My NCBI’s features. (Is there a My NCBI infographic in the Templeton Library’s future? I wouldn’t be surprised.)

The takeaway point there is that you can use PubMed very efficiently with just a handful of My NCBI’s features. Below is a quick guide to doing just that. (The QR code, by the way, leads to this tutorial.)