PubMed

PubMed

Access information: Free service of the National Library of Medicine (U.S.A.).
Description:

Includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different?

Additional information: Accessing full-text papers
Additional information:

Existing NCBI logins will stop working in June 2022, and it is no longer possible to create new NCBI accounts.

If you already have a MyNCBI account with saved work, you can link your existing account to your University of Edinburgh login:

  1. Sign in directly to NCBI with your username and password.
  2. Click your username, which is located on the top right of the browser page.
  3. Click “Change” in the “Linked Account” portlet.
  4. Search for University of Edinburgh using the search bar.
  5. You will be transferred to UoE login page. Use your University login to link your NCBI account.

To create a new NCBI login via your UoE login, 

  1. When you are presented with 3rd party routes to sign up, click “more sign up options”
  2. Search/browse for University of Edinburgh
  3. Log in with your University login
  4. Select Create a new NCBI account and confirm.
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